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Town Monster Releases Horrifying Short Film to Promote New Album

You remember Town Monster, right? I brought them up a while to celebrate the legacy of Bela Lugosi in song, then ended up doing a feature on one of the most brilliant independently produced music videos I've ever seen. It made No. 8 on our Best Music Videos list last year, beating out some pretty i ... More >>

Plan 9 from Outer Space

Dig This: Mantis, Pelviq Thrust, Super Robot Party, Mikey & The Drags, Trio Musette

The current volume of local music is staggering. New Houston bands are born daily, and all too often pass away just as quickly. Rocks Off wants to help you (and ourselves) keep up. It's a new year, one sure to be loaded with new Houston music, bursting at the seams like our jeans after all these h ... More >>

7 Songs About Bela Lugosi Not By Bauhaus

​Today is Bela Lugosi's 129th birthday. The man who will probably always be remembered as the definitive Count Dracula starred in dozens of plays and hundreds of movies, mostly horror and thrillers. Typecasting, his heavy accent, and a drug dependency on morphine to treat sciatica from a milit ... More >>

New Bands Mikey & The Drags, Bang Bangz Debut Saturday

Saturday night at Mango's, two new local acts make their debut. Rocks Off rummaged through our Rolodex and contacted them to find out what to expect. ​First on the list is Mikey & The Drags, formed by Miguel Ponce, whom many folks will remember as the frontman of The McKenzies. It's his first ... More >>

Dream of Life Offers An Intimate Look At The Newly Widowed Patti Smith

​Dream of Life, the 2008 documentary about Patti Smith, opens with Smith's own narration of the many loved ones she's outlived over the years. Among those names are her husband, MC5 guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith; her brother Todd; and controversial photographer and close friend Robert Mapplethorpe. ... More >>

Coming To The Small Screen: Weird Sex, The IRA And Origami

​Each Tuesday, Coming to the Small Screen will take a look at offbeat, newly released DVDs.Let's start off with the most unexpected, first -- Flexing with Monty. The fact that Sally Kirkland is in the cast might have something to do with the fact that Hollywood heavyweights Sean Penn and ... More >>

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The Day the Plot Stood Still

Sci-fi remake misses the point, and that's a Klaatu barada no-no

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

This 1994 Sundance Filmmakers Trophy winner documents the life of one of Russia’s greatest inventors

The Best Games of 2007

A look back at gaming's greatest hits

Top DVDs

A Poor Plan

Being Bettie

The Notorious Bettie Page never quite pins down the pinup

Peter Panache

J.M. Barrie gets a Hollywood makeover in Finding Neverland

Best Spectacle

Larry Simon

The Bit Player

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

A Puff of Smoke

Paul Wesolowski knows the secret word: Groucho

Sexual Orienting Onscreen

Gay and lesbian fest features new looks at homosexuality

Heart Condition

Minnie Driver has a problem with her ticker - and with the cinematography - in the awful Return to Me

Ambition Overload

Tim Robbins's Cradle Will Rock only feels like it's re-creating the '30s a day at a time

Thank You Very Little

Carrey craftily channels Kaufman, but is the late comedian worthy of a lofty bio-pic?

Wisconsin Cheese

American Movie hilariously documents a Midwestern filmmaker's rise to hackdom

Tobacco Toad

Mann elevates The Insider to Oscar-level suspense

Guano Grief

Bats has horror, for all the wrong reasons

Sweet Inspiration

Brooks crafts another classy comedy with The Muse

Murphy Magic

Eddie saves the comic Bowfinger from Steve's blahs

Buoyant Bard

Smart Shakespeare In Love treads lightly into romantic comedy

It's Topps!

In Mars Attacks!, Tim Burton turns his ray gun on everything in sight

Letters

Entry Level Movie

In a cineplex world ruled by mega-corporations, how much damage can one man do?

Camp Vamp

Mel Brooks' Dracula isrise-from-the-dead funny

Houston On Screen

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