Burt Reynolds

Cuz Nothing Says "Born Country" Like Rice University

John Royal’s Top Ten All-Time Greatest Sports Movies

Slo-Mo Football-Movie Finales: The Top Five

A Sermon from the Past

In attitude and action, Purlie Victorious feels rooted in a more hopeful time

Artist of the Week: Shit City High

Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com. Regardless of genre, a m ... More >>

Play With Your Food

Houston's dinner theater leaves a bad taste in our critic's mouth

Interstellar Drama

After falling from grace, the Galactic Cowboys are back in the saddle again

Beat the Heat!

1996 Summer Guide

Hold the Creamed Corn

Striptease captures the essence of Carl Hiaasen's darkly funny novel

Abortion for Grins

Striptease captures the essence of Carl Hiaasen's darkly funny novel

Memo Re: Slap Shot Remake

TO: President, Universal Pictures FROM: Script Department RE: Slap Shot Remake We received a copy of Peter Steinfeld's (21) first draft for the planned Slap Shot remake. Before we pass it on to the director currently attached to this project (Dean Parisot, Fun With Dick and Jane), we though ... More >>

Porn Yesterday

The hugely ambitious Boogie Nights revisits the sex-film world of the 1970s

Naked Ambition

Peddling smut is this young man's version of the American Dream

CEDAR CREEK'S COUNTRY ASS TEA

Peddling smut is this young man's version of the American Dream

Memo Re: Slap Shot Remake

TO: President, Universal Pictures FROM: Script Department RE: Slap Shot Remake We received a copy of Peter Steinfeld's (21) first draft for the planned Slap Shot remake. Before we pass it on to the director currently attached to this project (Dean Parisot, Fun With Dick and Jane), we though ... More >>

For Sale: the Remains of Burt Reynolds's Career, Plus: An Odd Couple of Entrepreneurs

Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

Independents' Day

WorldFest is back with the best films you've never heard of

Mission 2: Successful

With a head full of Notorious thoughts, director John Woo leads the charge in the visceral M:I-2

Way Out of Sync

With a head full of Notorious thoughts, director John Woo leads the charge in the visceral M:I-2

Paddled Senseless

This send-up of Deliverance comes without a brain, too

Channel Surfing

There's more than one way to play with your Wii

Holy Sh--!

The most-hyped hurricane season ever is upon us

Digging in the Dirt

The most-hyped hurricane season ever is upon us

Sweat Along with Russell

The most-hyped hurricane season ever is upon us

Redneck Renaissance

Gretchen Wilson’s return to town makes us wonder, What’s really behind all these songs about Wal-Mart, cheap beer and NASCAR?

White Trash

There's nothing good about this remake of an awful ol' show

Long Bomb

Adam Sandler, a star quarterback? If only they were joking.

Excess Hollywood

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

Major Players

A new book proves that The Games Do Count

Method Rocking

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

Hard News, Baby

After a tough sweeps month, KHOU turns to porno

Thus Spake Qwfwq

These local artists are encouraging people to engage in risky behavior

The Theater Shopping Network

Apparently What Women Want is a feature-length commercial

God(grand)-fathers

Aging mobsters just want a warm place to sleep in The Crew

Short Cuts

Director borrows from the Robert Altman stylebook to create his Magnolia "masterpiece"

Luck of the Puck

Sweet irreverence works in Mystery, Alaska

R.I.P. Dom DeLuise

According to multiple reports, actor, comedian, chef and cookbook author Dom DeLuise has passed away in Los Angeles at age 75. DeLuise starred in several Mel Brooks movies, including Blazing Saddles (above) and Spaceballs, as well as The End with Burt Reynolds, The Muppet Movie and just about every ... More >>

The Five Best Dom DeLuise Movies, Such As They Are

Dom DeLuise -- actor, chef, and father of that guy who was on 21 Jump Street -- passed away Monday at the age of 75. Rather than wallow in misery and grief at the loss of another of cinema's titans, we prefer to look back fondly at a movie career mostly spent co-starring alongside Gene Wilder and B ... More >>

For Wayne Dolcefino's Probation: Five Trespassing Movies

KTRK's investigative reporter Wayne Dolcefino has done a fair amount of good, exposing mismanagement of taxpayer dollars and safety issues concerning the fire department and public schools.Then again, he also devotes significant energy to rooting out handicapped-parking cheats and wading chest-deep ... More >>

Farrah Fawcett: Unfortunately, These Movies Will Also Be Remembered

Farrah Fawcett passed away today at the age of 62. Males of a certain generation (those born between 1900 and 1972) will always hold the former Jill Munroe in special esteem for the role she played in hastening their adolescence.There was that poster, for starters, and her short-lived but memorable ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Grant Langston's Plastic Honky-Tonk

 California, we have a problem. It is much the same problem we encounter with the whole Texas music phenomenon championed endlessly by Best In Texas music magazine: calculated, paint-by-the-numbers music and writing. This was one of LOM's chief criticisms of L.A. tonker David Serby's latest eff ... More >>

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Enjoy "I Will Always Love You" on key and sans squeaks

Falcon Lake: Casting The Inevitable Lifetime Movie

Tiffany Young-Hartley: Only Reese Witherspoon could do her justice​Okay, so it's time to get started on the script and casting for the movie about David and Tiffany's fateful Jet-Ski trip on Falcon Lake. First, what to name this movie? The Pirates of Falcon Lake will never do: it conjures Johnn ... More >>