Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones and the Perils of Humanistic Decency

Still joyously disreputable, Raiders comes to IMAX.

Can Silver Snakes Beat Indiana Jones' Ass?

It's a well-known fact that most band names are essentially gobbledygook, but here at Rocks Off we're trying hard to find meaning in the oddest monikers. There's an underlying animal theme to this column you may or may not have noticed. I'm always interested when bands attach themselves to lions, t ... More >>

Texans Training Camp: Crisis Averted, Duane Brown Is Gonna Be Okay

"#TexansNation I'm good!!!! Thanks for the thoughts and concerns!" -- Texans left tackle Duane Brown, 2:21 PM 8/1/12 on Twitter (@DuaneBrown76) "Thank God..." -- Every Texans fan...on Twitter, on message boards, at the grocery store, pretty much everywhere Remember the first five minutes of Raider ... More >>

Tut, Tut

There are some fascinating objects in this wannabe blockbuster, but mainly it's a grab for crowds and cash.

The 10 Most Iconic John Williams Scores Ever

Today John Williams turns 80 years old, and the prolific composer has packed in a lot of work in the past five decades as one of the most iconic movie music makers to lead an orchestra. No doubt you have been enthralled, enraptured and enfrightened (not a word) by his collaborations with George Luca ... More >>

The 10 Oddest Super Bowl Halftime Performers

The Super Bowl seems to be running out of stadium-sized performers who can attract eyeballs (the Black-Eyed Peas?), and this year they're hoping that faded scandalist Madonna will do the trick. It's not like they haven't been desperate before. In the early days of the event, producers regularly tu ... More >>

Pop Rocks: George, We'll Always Have The Star Wars Holiday Special

After much soul searching and agonizing (and in no way an attempt to drum up publicity in advance of his new movie), George Lucas has decided to retire from big budget movies: George Lucas's cinematic tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen, Red Tails, opens in theaters on Friday, and it might be the last ... More >>

Wildfire: What to Do If It Nears, Houstonians

Hopefully you won't be dealing with this​Here in Houston, we generally think about wildfire danger as often as we do earthquakes, which is to say never at all. But the recent fire in George Bush Park shows that the historic drought has made a lot more people vulnerable to a wildfire. So what ... More >>

Lions And Tigers And Bearfighters, Oh My!

It's a well-known fact that most band names are essentially gobbledygook, but here at Rocks Off we're trying hard to find meaning in the oddest monikers. ​If Rocks Off had a nickel for every time we were compared to Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz we would definitely be wondering how we went ... More >>

No Franklin's BBQ for Hitler

If you aren't already familiar with the now-viral "Hitler Reacts" meme, please head over to Know Your Meme and familiarize yourself. Macht schnell! Now then. Found on the Houston Chowhound boards yesterday was a Hitler Reacts video that I couldn't believe I'd never seen. Anyone familiar with the ea ... More >>

Ethnic and Geopolitical Culinary Stereotypes as Expressed Through Google; Or, Why Do White People Eat Breakfast?

Yes, this exact thing is taking place in Thailand right now. Except not really.​The interesting thing about Google is that we ask it the kind of deeply intimate questions that we would never ask another human being, even a friend or loved one. Embarrassing questions; compromising questions; da ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Finally, Some Important Movie News

​Now that the dust has cleared (and the blood has been spilled, thanks to a stabbing before the...Cowboys and Aliens panel) at Comic-Con, we can finally move forward, away from the overwrought announcements about the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, Green Lantern (Ryan Reynolds is better ... More >>

Sole Of Houston: And We Are Back, This Time On Two Wheels

Biking and no beer​David Beebe was back in town for a short time, so we put the band back together for an epic adventure in the streets of H-Town. We will have a full account here later in the week after Beebe uploads his pics to Flickr, but for now we'll tease with a few details... We didn't wa ... More >>

Five Worst Memorial Day Weekend Movies

Memorial Day weekend officially marks the beginning of summer, and the beginning of summer blockbuster-movie season.Recently studios have been pushing the blockbuster season earlier and earlier -- Iron Man 2 has been out for months, it seems -- but Memorial Day Weekend is still a date where they pla ... More >>

Measures of a Man

Harrison Ford is nothing if not useful.

"Jonathan Marshall: Double Vision”

Austin’s Art Palace relocates to Houston

Pop Rocks: Why 2010 Is Going To Suck, Pt. 1

I know I'm not the only person who feels like high-fiving everyone at the end of the holiday season, heady with the triumph of having survived another two weeks of forced jocularity, awkward family moments, bad TV, and worse music. The new year, with it's promise of fresh opportunities to screw up a ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Your George Bailey-Free Christmas Viewing List

Christmas, Christmas time is here. Time for ulcers to bleed freely and the roughly 22 percent of the U.S. population who identify themselves as "other than Christian" to smile through clenched jaws and wait for the adult contemporary stations to stop playing Bruce Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Comin ... More >>

Sampler Plate: This Week In Food Blogs

Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. Dude, You Going To Eat That? Dr. Ricky has been quite prolific lately, owing in ... More >>

“The Cinema of George Lucas”

The creator of Star Wars brings his memorabilia to the Space Center — where else would it go?

George Lucas Comes To Space Center Houston, Sorta

Photo courtesy Space Center HoustonScience fact and science fiction come face-to-face at the "Cinema of George Lucas" and "Live the Adventure" exhibits currently at Space Center Houston. Comprised of  the personal memorabilia of filmmaker George Lucas (much of it never seen before in public), a ... More >>

Aftermath: Morrissey at Jones Hall

Craig HlavatyTropical Storm Morrissey blew through Jones Hall Saturday night, leaving a full house of hyperventilated fans - never more so than when, during "Let Me Kiss You," he removed his shirt to reveal an enviable set of abs - and more than a few moist eyes in its wake; after the sh ... More >>

Get Lit: Delta Blues by Ted Gioia

Raw and untamed in its sound, performed by larger-than-life characters who might have popped out of fiction, and shrouded in a (often self-mythologizing) mystery, it's no wonder that the Delta blues attract such interest and scholarship, and is lauded as the most "true" distillation of the genre ... More >>

For The Person Who Has Everything - A Double Wall Stainless Steel Tiffin

Photos by Jay Francis I discovered Payal at 5615 Savoy (just off of Harwin near Hillcroft) a few years ago when I went in search of some Indian stainless steel cookware. The Indians do spectacular things with stainless steel: dishes, cups, teapots, pressure cookers...you name it. And when I walke ... More >>

Best Films of 2008

Looking back at Che, The Dark Knight, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-E and many others, and looking ahead to 2009

Going Down to the Center of the Earth

Brendan Fraser falls into deep, deep hole

“Daredevil Island”

Space Center Houston mixes adventure with fun

A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.

Indiana Jones and the Fortress of Sad Decline

Its very own temple of doom, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull digs Indy into a deep hole

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation

A former kid genius who re-created the Spielberg classic comes to the Aurora Picture Show

Pity: Fool's Gold

There is no gold at the end of this terrible Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson mash-up

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

The Force Is Strong With This One

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

Same Old Story

Sequels, prequels and threequels headline Hollywood 2007

Snakes on a Plane

The year's most shameless B-movie delivers exactly what it promises

Indy Film Night

Cracked Code

Da Vinci's leap to the screen leaves no room for surprise

This Game Bites

The new Castlevania is the last nail in the franchise's coffin

Have Gun, Will Space Travel

Serenity spins a classic tale way out west

Cage Death Match

National Treasure makes one long for good Nic Cage movies -- like Con Air

Days of Future Passed

Sky Captain zooms back to a tomorrow that never was

A Tall Order

The Rock tries on Joe Don Baker's shoes for size, and they don't quite fit

Metaphor Alert: Bright Red

Like America's current leaders, Viggo and Hidalgo try to "enlighten" the Arabs with Western justice

Love of the Game

A Valentine's weekend for college baseball fans

The Latex Glove of God

Sacred Sites

The Final Frontier

Sci-fi conventions are where movie stars go to burn brightly one more time

Night & Day

July 9 - 15, 1998

The Happy Hero

The Phantom delivers a comic-book masked guy from the days before angst