David Fincher

MTV's Best Year: The Top 5 Videos of 1992

In 1992, the recording industry was riding high. The compact disc had become a major success, with music lovers purchasing new albums and old releases in astonishing numbers despite the format's comparatively steep price tags. And the music-video juggernaut known as MTV was helping major labels to b ... More >>

Happy Malaria Day! A Feverish Playlist

Tuesday night, as blooming flowers filled the Spring air with a heady fragrance, Rocks Off hung a wreath made of empty insect repellant cans on our door, and gently tucked our young daughter in with mosquito netting in order to ensure Santa Carrier wouldn't visit her with his magic bag of plague. ... More >>

Girl Gone Wild: Madonna's Top 10 Dance/Club Chart-Toppers

For the past two weeks, Madonna's latest single, "Girl Gone Wild," has been sitting pretty at the top of Billboard's Hot Dance/Club Play chart. That's the chart that tabulates which songs are getting the most spins in discos and dance clubs. It's a cool, upbeat track about losing control of your de ... More >>

Floor-to-Floor Combat

Cops versus thugs in high-powered high-rise fight flick The Raid.

New Girl in Town

Rooney Mara takes control of the Stieg Larsson juggernaut in Dragon Tattoo.

The Film Issue: People of the Year

The Film Issue

Looking back on the year in movies, and what's coming in 2012.

Pop Rocks: In Which I Conclusively Prove Lisbeth Salander's Cultural Supremacy

​David Fincher's adaptation of Stieg Larsson's gazillion-selling The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo opens today. I'll have a review up tomorrow, which will likely have no effect on the reportedly large numbers of women planning to avoid the film entirely. Says another marketing exec, "Hyper-realisti ... More >>

You In Color: The Black Angels' Christian Bland Talks Film Scores

Photo By Craig HlavatyThe Black Angels' Alex Maas at Free Press Summerfest in June​Tomorrow night the Black Angels hit Houston for the third time in about a year, with a gig over at Fitzgerald's with fellow retro-doomers Dead Meadow and Spindrift. The last time the Angels were in Houston it wa ... More >>

Oscar Night 2011: The Live Blog!

​We are only less than three hours out from bringing you live-blogging coverage, right here, of this year's Academy Awards, and we are more than excited to take you through the night for every win, loss, awful dress, awesome dress, foible, and foul-up Hollywood throws our way.

Colin Firth for Best Actor? Not So Fast.

​I realize the actual Academy Awards aren't set to be broadcast until Sunday night, when millions of people will watch -- for the first hour, at least -- as co-hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway lob Nerfball zingers at their fellow actors, make passively tasteless jokes about speech impedime ... More >>

Kickass Movies of the Year

Our Ten Favorites from 2010 – including Jackass 3D.

The Girl Whose Story We Cannot Follow

Back for one final, convoluted installment with Stieg Larsson's lady in black.

The Social Network, Now Starring Lady Gaga, Drake, ZZ Top...

​The Social Network was finally toppled at the box office this past weekend by the new Jackass 3-D, but that doesn't mean Rocks Off is done with the story chronicling the beginnings of Facebook and the rise of founder Mark Zuckerberg. You remember our film-score blog, right? When it was rele ... More >>

The Top 10 Rock-Musician Film Scores

​David Fincher's Facebook creation tale The Social Network has been the No. 1 film in America the past two weekends, and no doubt it will continue that streak this weekend, barring an assault by Jackass 3-D which comes out today. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone is already hailing Network as a ... More >>

Who Needs Friends?

David Fincher commented on Mark Zuckerberg's status. With The Social Network, he invites you to join him.

Pop Rocks: Remake My Day 2 (The Remakening)

Honestly, do you really care?​I write a lot about Hollywood's obsession with remakes because I'm a movie buff, first and foremost, and because as a "writer" it's easy to milk an announcement of the latest atrocity from Platinum Dunes for 750 indignant words regarding the creative demise of Hollywo ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Let's Have An Accurate Social Network Movie

​The Social Network, David Fincher's movie about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg, AKA "The Discount Michael Cera"), opens in October. Virtual fur is already flying, however, over alleged liberties taken by Fincher and author Ben Mezrich (the movie is based on his bo ... More >>

Fight Club

Sure, we all know you can't talk about it, but there's no rule that you can't watch it over and over again

Houston Music Fight Club: Brett Koshkin vs. Ceeplus Bad Knives, Late Nite Pie vs. Mai's, Nick Gaitan vs. ???

​This week brings three new bouts and a special announcement to all past winners and losers of our imaginary brawls on Houston Music Fight Club. Next Tuesday, Rocks Off is presenting David Fincher's Fight Club at our (mostly) weekly Movie Nite at the Mink. We would like all past winners and losers ... More >>

Seven

Web exclusive!

Take The Time Capsule Back To 1965, Via KPRC

Via Mike McGuff's blog comes a whole lot of time-capsule goodness: a 1965 mini-documentary by KPRC on how KPRC goes about putting together the news for its TV and radio audience.It's a world where cigarettes are smoked manfully, reporters are uniformly white and the intersection of Westheimer & ... More >>

The Curious Case of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Old Man Pitt

Violence Is Golden in Wanted

With its secret boys club and bloody good fun, this one has all of the fight with none of the guilt

Joshua, Sunshine, 3:10 to Yuma, Zodiac: 2-Disc Director's Cut

Chow Time Again

Cannes d'Awards

Foreign films dominate this year at Cannes.

Palme d'Hoberman

Our one-man jury bestows honors on the best of Cannes 2007.

America Cannes

Art imitates life as U.S. directors command this year's fest, with only China rivaling for celluloid domination.

The Lookout

Joseph Gordon-Levitt awes again in this character-driven theft thriller

Killer Instinct

David Fincher's Type-A approach to filmmaking pays off

Hand It to Him

Same Old Story

Sequels, prequels and threequels headline Hollywood 2007

Abort

Mission: Impossible III runs the franchise into the ground

Boy, Oh, Boy

You have no idea what you're in for with Oldboy...but you'll learn

Shock Treatment

An experimental director and a harrowing tale fit The Jacket perfectly

Screenplay Zero

Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley struggle through floundering frights

Shred-heads

Grind transforms formula into freestyle fun

A Great Chase

Arnold's reprogrammed -- Terminator 3 isn't. But it is fun.

A Toothy Grin

Horror fans have good reason to smile at Darkness Falls

Tapeheads

Gore Verbinski and Naomi Watts throw their hats into The Ring

Full Frontal Assault

Soderbergh shoots in digital and hits his target: Hollywood

Fight Club

When it comes to producing movies, it's a fine art (or Art Linson)

Skate or Die

In the 1970s, the Z-Boys were hell on wheels. Today, they're shredding the big screen.

Home Alone Again

Panic Room is a great movie -- if you've never seen one

Reel War

The Army and Hollywood join hands to wage virtual, bloodless battles

Nothing About Ado Much

The backward narrative of Memento is little more than gimmicky

Beyond Despair

Tired plotlines pummel Fight Club

Send in the Clones

An artful director brings flair to the Alien franchise

Losing It

All work and no play make this a gloomy Game