Ben Stiller

The 10 Oddest Super Bowl Halftime Performers

The Super Bowl seems to be running out of stadium-sized performers who can attract eyeballs (the Black-Eyed Peas?), and this year they're hoping that faded scandalist Madonna will do the trick. It's not like they haven't been desperate before. In the early days of the event, producers regularly tu ... More >>

RIP Heavy D: Why Are The '90s Slowly Dying On Us?

​Word just came from TMZ on Twitter - yeah, yeah - that hip-hopper Heavy D has passed away at the age of 44. The artist, born Dwight Arrington Myers, was the leader of Heavy D & The Boyz, best known for cuts like "Chunky But Funky" and "Now That We Found Love". So far details have Myers coll ... More >>

High-rise Robbery

Stealing from the rich to...oh, whatever. Funny is the message in Tower Heist.

Remember Roosh Williams' Common Struggles Of A Modern Man?

Houston's history is dotted with albums that, fairly or not, have been swept aside. We'll examine them here. Have an album that you think nobody knows about but should? Email sheaserrano@gmail.com. ​Roosh Williams Common Struggles of a Modern Man (Self-released, 2011) Common Struggles of a M ... More >>

Diddy's Top Five WTF Videos

​Sean Combs Sean "Puffy" Combs Puffy Puff Daddy P. Diddy Diddy is coming to Warehouse Live on May 12 on his "Diddy Dirty Money Tour," behind his newest album, Last Train To Paris. The prolific businessman, producer, and rapper is embarking on one of his very, very scarce tours. We aren't too ... More >>

10 Uncool Artists Primed For Hipster Rediscovery

Tumblr"Aw, dammit, I grabbed Dad's iPod by mistake. Paul Simon... is that one guy, or two Beatles?" ​Remember emo kids? Only a few short years ago, the nation's venues of the nation were filled with kids in all black, wearing ultra-skinny jeans, eyeliner, white belts, and identical chopped-mea ... More >>

2000 - 2010: A DECADE TO FORGET

How Things Went Downhill

The Gang's All Here

But the Focker franchise has seen better days.

Karina Longworth's Top Ten Movies of 2010

10 Sequels That Don't Need To Happen

Please god, no...​For those who've been pining for the return of the "Blue Steel" and the "Magnum," your patience is about to be rewarded: Ben Stiller is dead in the middle of promoting "Little Fockers," out Dec. 22, but he's already got his eye on yet another sequel: "Zoolander 2." Stiller ... More >>

Friday Night: Tim & Eric At Fitzgerald's

Photos by Jim Bricker​ Tim & Eric, Neil Hamburger FItzgerald's November 12, 2010 It took Aftermath a while to "get" Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim's Awesome Show (Great Job). We were a fan of their original Adult Swim offering, Tom Goes to the Mayor, but at first unfairly lumped in their m ... More >>

The 15 Most Annoying Ringtones You Can Get

Photo illustration by John Seaborn Gray​It's not good enough for a phone to simply ring anymore. Your phone's ring must say something about you, become an expression of your unique individuality, or, failing that, let everyone around you know that you really, really like that OutKast song that ... More >>

Get Him To The Greek: Win Free Tickets; Three Questions The Movie Needs To Answer

Get Him to the Greek stars Russell Brand as a drug-infested rock star and Jonah Hill as the uptight assistant whose job it is to get him to a gig at the Greek Theater in LA.Three questions that can be resolved only by seeing the movie:

Five Songs We Don't Want To Hear At Buzzfest

​This Sunday, Craig's Hlist embarks on one of the most dangerous adventures of his music-journalism career, covering BuzzFest XXIV out at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. It will be our first go-round at the bi-annual modern-rock radio festival. This year's line-up was the first one that made ... More >>

Screen on the Green: Reality Bites

Get a double dose of the Houston skyline as you watch this film

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Noah Baumbach goes west for his latest self-obsessed, unlikable protagonist in Greenberg.

No Rocks Off Movie Night Tonight - We're Saving Ourselves for Urban Cowboy Next Week

Next Tuesday, Rocks Off Movie Night at the Mink returns with the 1980 "classic" Urban Cowboy. Classic if you're from Houston, anyway. The film kicks off our three-week series on movies filmed in and around Houston proper. Ben Stiller's directorial debut Reality Bites and Wes Anderson's hipster-bait ... More >>

Pop Rocks: New Blood For Hollywood. Please

​I used to review movies (over here, if you care), an endeavor I had to quit for a variety of reasons: my hectic neurosurgery rotation, for one, as well as the increasing physical demands of the new Mrs. Vonder Haar, Carla Gugino. But among the non-imaginary factors influencing my decision was the ... More >>

Animal Cruelty Can Be Fun!

Regular readers of the Houston Press and Hair Balls have been following the saga of the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care for some time as we've tried to raise awareness about mismanagement and abuse at the facility. Change is slow to come by, as the City and City Council continue to sit on their ... More >>

Eternal Flame: I Love You, Man

Not even Brody Jenner could extinguish the bromance.

Apocalypse Whatever: Tropic Thunder

Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower

No Reservations, I Could Never Be Your Woman, In the Shadow of the Moon, The Independent

Animal Crackers

Plot-light Madagascar still manages clever gags for grown-ups

Lt. Nanny

Vin Diesel moves in, and the laughs move out

Focking Wonderful

Streisand and Hoffman save a family -- and a movie, too

Say Wha? Say Why?

Searching for the meaning of life in a movie that barely exists

Best Video Store

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Balls to the Walls

The Houston Dodgeball Association is all the Buzz

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Hutch Ado About Nothing

No obvious joke goes untouched in this so-so TV show remake

Alan Ruck's Day On

A traveling production of The Producers stars Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off

When He Was Cruel

Neil LaBute tries to be nice but comes off very savage

The Pain Train

Two years later, a digital-video short film became an overnight ad sensation

Fallon Fast

Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen

Better in Pairs

Generally a letdown, the year in film offered some well-crafted works that are best viewed as double features

Limp Bizkit

Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (Interscope)

In the Company of Moles

De Niro is an ex-CIA man who grills his daughter's fiancé in the cinematic sitcom Meet the Parents

Chewing the Fat

Amanda Peet and her perfect choppers grind up the brainless suitors in Whipped

Boy Meets Goy

So, there's a rabbi and a priest... wait, maybe you've heard this one...

Mixmaster

Director James Toback crosses racial, gender and class lines in the gracefully gritty Black and White

Hysterical Heroes

Loony Mystery Men have the power only to make us laugh

Hormonal Hilarity

Raunchy American Pie turns testosterone into a terrific comedy

Hard as a Rock

Wonderfully Wicked

A Simple Plan spins gold from stark greed

Trouble in Tinseltown

Permanent Midnight parades another too-hip heroin addict

Brutality a LaBute

Director dissects depraved and depersonalized urbanites

Scary Carrey

The Cable Guy reveals Jim Carrey's dark side -- but not enough of it

Fall Down, Go Thud

Sentiment and Sneering