Dennis Quaid

Hollywood: Enough with the Father-Son Dramas, Already!

Ramin Bahrani: Expand or Die

For At Any Price director Ramin Bahrani, bigger films demand bigger targets.

Meet Sunny: From BARC to Broadway

ZZ Top, Dennis Quaid, Heaven's Gate cult co-founder Marshall Applewhite -- Houston has exported its share of talented entertainers, and now we'd like to add one more to the list: a Houston Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care adoptee named Sunny who will perform on Broadway in "Annie." The 2.5-yea ... More >>

What to Expect When You're Expecting

The narrow world view of the parent trap.

An Afternoon with the Artists

For President's Day: The Best Movie Portrayals of 15 Presidents

Portraying presidents on screen is always tricky. Crass imitation makes the thing look like a comedy skit, but completely ignoring the mannerisms and voice that people know doesn't work either. There have been some laughingly inept acting jobs when it comes to the 44 people who have been the countr ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian -- Can the Celebrity Marriage Be Saved?

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. Russell Brand stands to land $20 million or more from his divorce from wife Katy Perry, reports said Monday. The British actor and comedian told New York magazine last year that he and Perry did not sign a prenuptial agreement. And since the two were marr ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Is No Celebrity Marriage Sacred?

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. Russell Brand stands to land $20 million or more from his divorce from wife Katy Perry, reports said Monday. The British actor and comedian told New York magazine last year that he and Perry did not sign a prenuptial agreement. And since the two were marr ... More >>

Footloose 2011

There Will Always Be a Time to Dance

And Now, the Least Anticipated Movies of Fall/Winter 2011

​Pop Rocks will return Thursday. The fall/winter movie season kicked off last weekend as Contagion dominated the box office (the highly touted Warrior, not so much). I've already covered, in some depth, those releases coming up in the remainder of 2011 that might merit a closer look. We learn ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Can't We Just Leave D.B. Cooper Alone?

On the plus side, maybe this guy can get a new gig.​This November marks the 40th anniversary of the hijacking of Northwest Flight #305 by a man calling himself "Dan Cooper." The hijacker, later erroneously referred to in the media as "D.B.," jumped out of the plane at an altitude of 10,000 fee ... More >>

Doing Time, Wrongly

Finally, a chat with our cover subject.

Our San Jacinto Quiz, Including Silk Underwear, Syphilis and Dennis Quaid

Good thing he wasn't named Sam Schnackenpfefferhausen​Today marks the 175th anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto, the glorious day when a ragtag Texan army surprised a siesta-enjoying Mexican force and won independence for the Lone Star State. The battle, fought near present-day Refinery ... More >>

Apollo 14 Splashed Down 40 Years Ago Today: Six Odd Things About It

A collectible version of the only Apollo 14 moment most people remember​Apollo 14 -- the safely numbered one after that, um, other one -- splashed down 40 years ago today. Since there were no dancing-on-the-edge death-defying dramatic escapes on this one, the mission is largely lost to histor ... More >>

20 Musician Biopics Currently In Development Hell

Happy birthday, Janis.​News came down last week that Sacha Baron Cohen will be stepping into the rhinestones and glitter as Queen icon Freddie Mercury. It's been a long time coming for Cohen, the Borat and Bruno star who is slowly becoming his generation's Peter Sellers and has been rumored to ... More >>

The 10 Sexiest (Male) Texans Of Our Lifetime

Last week we gave you our 10 Sexiest Texans of Our Lifetime. It was a list that was, admittedly, vagina-biased. We make it up to the people who love guys with this definitive list, which involved more asking around than the first one. Here are, then, the 10 sexiest Texas men of our lives: 10. Sea ... More >>

The Ladies' Man

Meat Loaf says he's outdone Bat Out of Hell

Pop Rocks: With Friends Like These

​Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski remains under house arrest in Switzerland, awaiting possible extradition to the United States for fleeing sentencing after pleading guilty to "unlawful sex" with a 13-year old in 1977. His attorneys are, naturally, fighting this possibility, while a numbe ... More >>

Today's DVDs: Good Actors In Bad Movies -- Legion, Edge of Darkness and Daybreakers

​Stick your hopes for quality cinematic releases back in your pocket. This week's list of DVD releases is topped by a trio of B-movie action flicks that star some A-list names: Legion with Paul Bettany, Charles Dutton and Dennis Quaid, Edge of Darkness with Mel Gibson and Daybr ... More >>

Jimi Hendrix's Pyromania And 5 Other Great Moments In Instrument Destruction

​ We've all seen the famous footage of Jimi Hendrix humping, burning, and finally smashing his guitar to bits at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. What not many people realize is he initially performed this act of musical instrument immolation some months before, at the suggestion of writer Keith ... More >>

More Trouble For Bellaire's Randy Quaid

​Who ever though that Dennis Quaid -- the guy who got in a custody battle with Meg Ryan over their guru -- would turn out to seem the sane one in the Quaid family? Dennis' older brother Randy has stepped in it again, missing a court appearance in California and thus engendering an arrest w ... More >>

Win A Free Public Enemies DVD; Check Out Five Other "Enemy" Movies

Johnny Depp is the "sexiest man alive." I know this because it's what I've been told by People magazine, my wife, all my wife's friends, my sister, and that girl I dated in college who used to make me watch 21 Jump Street before she'd allow me to get her clothes off.He's also the star of Public Ene ... More >>

Top Five Houstonians As Hurricanes

Ordinary Smart People

Intelligence goes soft in this more obvious than smart rom-com

Spring Training: Draft Dennis Quaid!

Multi-Perspective, Mega-Annoying Vantage Point

The Truth Won't Set You Free

High Spirits

The haunted (or is it?) history of 3700 Main

Took a Shot

Tube Boobs

American Dreamz's nation of idiots lands a little close to home

All Yours

Yours, Mine & Ours lowers the bar for miserable remakes

About a Man

In Good Company is wonderfully funny, a bit sad and unmistakably real

Guilty Pleasures, Part II

More music figures confess their deep, dark secrets

From Major to Minor

Why the best films of 2004 look like indies but aren't

Faker's Dozen

A rare superior sequel, Ocean's Twelve entertains with cinematic sleight of hand

Talking Turkey

Time again to honor the best in Houston

Messin' with Texas

The Alamo gets what it always needed: a happy ending

Ryan's Hope

Jane Campion guides Meg Ryan through a stunning career transformation In the Cut

Far from Happy

The year's best featured plenty of sad white guys

Moore, and Less

Julianne is radiant in a pointless homage to the reel '50s

The Lord's Work?

Bill Paxton's Frailty is too twisted for its own good

Playbill

Willie Nelson's Family Picnic

Nobody's Here

You probably don't remember actor Marco Perella. Neither does Hollywood.

War Games

With Traffic, Steven Soderbergh takes an unblinking look at America's drug policies

Hostage Crisis: Day 143

Proof of Life kidnaps the audience and makes it beg for mercy

New Frequency

Filmmakers invent a sci-fi subgenre with this unique twist on time-travel flicks

Paydirt!

Oliver Stone delivers the ultimate guy movie with Any Given Sunday

Heart Failure

Carroll's impressive cast can't overcome this thin film

Six Legs, One Joke

Buddy and the Beast

A pair of unlikely allies trade wisecracks and fight evil. The twist: one's a dragon.

Uurrpp!

Kevin Costner makes a mess of a cowboy legend