Subject: Billy Bob Thornton

• Tonight: Boxmasters at Scout Bar, Part 1

  July 22, 2008

• Far East Epic

  Princess Mononoke struggles with evil and English adaptation

  November 4, 1999

• Cho-Zen One

  May 29, 2003

• Five Worst Hangovers In The Movies

  The holidays are upon us, and whether you're dealing with 8-hour layovers at O'Hare or sleeping on your aunt's rollout bed with the bar that lays right across your sacroiliac joint or "entertaining" your brother and his brood of monstrous offspring, chances are you're going to drink. A lot. To help get you through those inevitable mornings after, here are some of our favorite memorable movie hangovers.5. Bad Santa (2003) This unquiet interlude pretty well sums up all of Billy Bob Thornton's rec

  December 26, 2008

• Doug Sahm Tribute Album Due March 24

  Vanguard Records (Billy Bob Thornton & the Boxmasters, Kim Richey, the Watson Twins) announced today it will release Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm, a 14-song disc honoring the late musican known as Sir Doug, March 24. Artists include Delbert McClinton, Los Lobos, Alejandro Escovedo, Dave Alvin, Terry Allen, Charlie Sexton and former Afghan Whigs lead singer Greg Dulli. Sahm's two sons, Shandon and Shawn, are also featured on Keep Your Soul. Shandon, who now fronts his own heav

  January 21, 2009

• A Deep Cut

  February 20, 1997

• Pulp Without Politics

  October 2, 1997

• God Help Us

  January 29, 1998

• Clinton Without Contrasts

  March 19, 1998

• All Climax

  July 2, 1998

• Buffed Up

  July 16, 1998

• Eight for '98

  December 31, 1998

• Wonderfully Wicked

  January 21, 1999

• Control Freaks

  April 22, 1999

• SXSW: Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters at Smokin' Music

  We caught Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters set last night at Smokin' Music, a venue appropriately sponsored by American Spirit cigarettes. His brand of "mod-country" is ridiculously catchy. It's like rockabilly through a British Invasion filter. He must have smoked about five cigs within the first four songs.

  March 19, 2009

• Seen at SXSW: Matthew McConaughey

  Craig HlavatyThe star of such films as Sahara and Fool's Gold was spotted at the Billy Bob Thornton show last night.

  March 19, 2009

• The Best Christmas Album of 2008 is... Metal?

  December 18, 2008

• Billy Bob Thornton

  July 17, 2008

• Billy Bob Thornton

  July 17, 2008

• Downtown's Got Soulphilia

  A superbad shindig at Dean's

  July 3, 2003

• Bayousphere

  March 20, 2008

• Well-known Unknown

  Stringin' up horrifying honky-tonk

  July 13, 2006

• Fly Me to the Moon

  Astronaut Farmer dares to dream

  February 22, 2007

• The Great Unknown

  Music, the Squidbillies and a personal ecosystem

  January 11, 2007

• Looking for a hit

  Mike Stinson, Nashville and an eight-minute bottle of wine

  October 12, 2006

• Men Behaving Badly

  Bad Santa meets Napoleon Dynamite in tepid man-child comedy

  September 28, 2006

• Mexican Combo Plate

  Billy Bob's adaptation of Pretty Horses mixes together too many ingredients, all of them undercooked

  December 21, 2000

• Bayou City Music Mindbender, Part II

  Another chance to test your knowledge of local lore

  January 12, 2006

• Common Cold

  Harold Ramis's Ice Harvest is just a reheated Christmas caper

  November 24, 2005

• True Blue Confessions

  Let's join Madonna for a friendly round of Celebrity Breach of Confidentiality

  November 17, 2005

• Letters

  August 11, 2005

• Bad News

  One more awful remake strikes out

  July 21, 2005

• Excess Hollywood

  In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise.

  May 26, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  May 5, 2005

• Not Rockne

  A worthy actor rides the bench in the listless Coach Carter

  January 13, 2005

• Method Rocking

  Minnie Driver and Juliette Lewis have started bands. Come on, you know you're curious.

  January 13, 2005

• Talking Turkey

  Time again to honor the best in Houston

  November 25, 2004

• Hell of a Catch

  Friday Night Lights goes deep -- a rare route for football movies

  October 7, 2004

• Messin' with Texas

  The Alamo gets what it always needed: a happy ending

  April 8, 2004

• Turntable Roundtable

  Hip-hop notables get together to rap about responsibility

  January 29, 2004

• Crash Course

  A stuntman is mightily impressed by Houston's rail crashes

  January 1, 2004

• You Better Watch Out

  These Saint Nicks can be real pricks

  December 18, 2003

• Still Toxie After All These Years

  Lloyd Kaufman's gross-out Troma Studios has a long history of setting the pace for mainstream movies

  December 11, 2003

• The S-Word

  Bad Santa is crude and rude and the jolliest Christmas movie ever

  November 27, 2003

• Big Wet Kiss

  Richard Curtis is in Love with love, so what's new?

  November 6, 2003

• A Ball, Screwed

  The Coens make a '40s comedy with a Cary named Clooney

  October 9, 2003

• Sexual Healing

  A racist Billy Bob gets funky in Monster's Ball

  February 7, 2002

• Hairy Situation

  Bandits holds out for a hero and gets two: Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton

  October 11, 2001

• Listening Room: What's Been Tickling Our Earholes Lately

  As Rocks Off has noted in our periodic Mail Call entries, even though the tide of promo CDs has been greatly reduced by the digital revolution - Rocks Off can count on one finger (the middle one) the times he's actually used the streaming/download email link publicists are ever more fond of these days - he still gets more new CDs via snail mail than any one person can rightfully be expected to audition. Most of these are eliminated either through gut instinct or a quick glance at the accompanyi

  April 27, 2009

• I Am the Body Beautiful: Our Favorite Patrick Swayze Musical Movie Moments

  ​It's only been a few hours, and we already miss Patrick Swayze. The Houston native won our hearts as the sensitive yet murderous Dalton in Road House and the senstive yet Confederate Orry Main in North and South. Here at Rocks Off, however, we want to take a moment to commemorate the musical legacy of the man's body of work. And what a body, are we right? 5. Loverboy, "Working for the Weekend"(Saturday Night Live): So now both the stars of the Chippendales skit have died. We could use t

  September 15, 2009