Jim Carrey

Relationships Suck: Top 5 Movies About Awful Couplings

There is nothing more wonderful than being alone on Valentine's Day! Naturally, we are being sarcastic. As one half of a couple, Valentine's Day brings potential surprise engagements, co-worker jealousy-inducing flower deliveries, overpriced prix fixe dinners, a reason to shop at Victoria's Secret, ... More >>

"And A S.W.A.T Team in a Pear Tree": Hip Hop Christmas songs

​Have you grown tired of hearing the same played out Christmas songs on 99.1 yet? Of course you have. Even if you avoid the radio, you hear the music at the grocery store, company holiday parties, even at bars you escape to in order to avoid holiday overcheer. It's almost depressing. Christmas ... More >>

Tommy Davidson

Last Night: Panic! At The Disco At House Of Blues

Photos by Jessica Perry​Panic! At The Disco House of Blues June 15, 2011 Panic! At The Disco lead singer and main archtiect Brendan Urie comes from the ADHD generation, the one that got meds shoved down their throats. The strange byproduct of that generation, late Generation Yers, is that the ... More >>

Gay and Gayer

Jim Carrey and crew go balls-out in the raunchy, liberating Phillip Morris.

Gay and Gayer

Jim Carrey and crew go balls-out in the raunchy, liberating Phillip Morris.

I Love You Phillip Morris

When Rock Stars And Movie Stars Reproduce: Five Offspring Bands

​No, these aren't Offspring cover bands, which would be gross, since Offspring sucks pretty badly on their own. They aren't as cool as we thought they were in 1994. No, let's talk about what happens when famous folks let their children loose to be rock stars. Some fall while others find fame i ... More >>

Jim Carrey's Gay Sex Scenes, Thanks To The Houston Press

The Russian poster for the movie​Movieline, a great site for all your film needs, has been keeping track of the roller-coaster ride that is I Love You Phillip Morris, the Jim Carrey-Ewan McGregor film that is based on the book by Steve McVicker, which is based on stories he did for the Houston Pre ... More >>

Bad News For The Jim Carrey Movie Based On Houston Press Articles

​Bad news for former Houston Press reporter Steve McVicker, whose articles for us were turned into a book which turned into a Jim Carrey/Ewan MacGregor movie: The Los Angeles Times is reporting that release of I Love You, Phillip Morris has been delayed indefinitely. Consolidated Pictures Group, t ... More >>

More Tats = More Deviance?

Texas Tech studies body ink and social deviance.

Promo Materials Emerge For I Love You Phillip Morris, Former Press Staffer Steve McVicker's Movie

​In advance of its March 26 release date, there are now trailers and posters galore for I Love You Phillip Morris, the Jim Carrey/Ewan Macgregor film based on the Houston Press articles and ensuing book written by former staffer Steve McVicker.You can see a mess of trailers here.McVicker says this ... More >>

Disney's A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge is spitting mad

Disney's A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge is spitting mad

Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Stop, thief!

The Couple That Robs Banks Together Stays Together

Photo courtesy FBI​ Fun with Dick & Jane was pretty much a bomb for Jim Carrey, but it looks like one couple really liked it.They walked into a Wirt Road Krogers this afternoon and robbed it.As the FBI puts it: At approximately 12:55p.m., the couple entered the Kroger and proceeded to the bank ... More >>

A Very CGI Christmas

This can't be what Charles Dickens had in mind.

Pop Rocks: Tips For Strip-Mining Our Childhoods

​Spike Jonze's live-action version of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are led the box office this weekend, grossing over $32 million. Last month, another children's book adaptation, Sony Pictures' version of Judi and Ron Barrett's Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, scored similar numbers f ... More >>

Living and Dying with Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor Over Sundance

How I turned some newspaper stories into a book which became a movie that caused those two guys to kiss

Our Man At Sundance, Part Two: The Screening

Former Houston Press reporter Steve McVicker is reporting from the Sundance Film Festival:Well, Sunday's screening of "our" film, I Love You Phillip Morris, came and went last night, with still no official word of having been snapped up by any major distribution company for mucho dollars. However ... More >>

Slideshow: Snakes on an Album

One of the songs slithering around Rocks Off's head lately is "Snake Farm," the title track to grizzled Hill Country troubador Ray Wylie Hubbard's 2006 album, where the singer and a comely employee of the ramshackle reptile house between San Marcos and New Braunfels get it on amongst the other&n ... More >>

Yes Man Repackages Jim Carrey's Greatest Hits, Which Maybe Weren't So Great to Start With

Just Say No

Attention Passengers: Forget Bush Intercontinental, Here Are The Five Best Karaoke Movie Scenes

If Buddha, Mohammed, and Jesus Christ joined hands and strolled down Westheimer turning automobiles into unicorns while singing "Blasphemous Rumors" I don't think it would get as much coverage as that infernal karaoke machine at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (including right here at Hair Bal ... More >>

Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor & A Former Press Reporter Ready For Sundance

Want to see Jim Carrey making out with Ewan McGregor?You can, thanks to former Houston Press reporter Steve McVicker.The film based on Press stories he wrote about a relentless con man, I Love You Phillip Morris, will be showing at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival, and publicity is starting to bu ... More >>

The 99-Cent Dog Store

It's low-rent, but legal

Not so Bad: "Horton Hears a Who!

After the unspeakable Grinch, Horton is a surprisingly strong Seuss adaptation

Spider-Man 3

Overstuffed plot, empty action ruin Spidey's run

17 + 6 - 5 + 1 - 3 + 7 = 23!

Shocking numerical revelations await in Jim Carrey's totally freaking random thriller

Anchor man?

Playing against type, Will Ferrell can't quite ground this artificially whimsical romantic comedy.

Naomi Then and Now

On the Bill

Backhanded Slapstick

Jim Carrey's brand of fun warms a reheated Dick and Jane

Leaning Sideways

In a year when small movies came up big, picking the best was a Payne

Sour Lemony

Jim Carrey is in fine form, but the rest of Snicket is less fortunate

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Think Different

Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies requires a brain cell or two?

Power Play

Jim Carrey goes from physical to metaphysical comedy in Bruce Almighty

Popsy

Thursday, June 27 and Sunday, June 30

Capra Corn

The Majestic has the sap but not the magic of the master

The Truth Is Out There...

A rogue mascot reveals secrets of the trade

Pops Goes the Grinch

A Very Merry Pops!

We'll All Cry Boo-Hoo

Ron Howard's cuddly new Grinch puzzles our puzzler till our puzzler's puzzled out

Dr. Jekyll and Jim Carrey

The freewheeling comedic actor has double the fun in Me, Myself & Irene

Thank You Very Little

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

Hard as a Rock

Tube Message

Everyman's Jim Carrey examines TV's omnipotence in The Truman Show

Good-bye to Summer

What this year's movies portend for next year

Scary Carrey

The Cable Guy reveals Jim Carrey's dark side -- but not enough of it

Batman, At Last

Sexy and soulful, Schumacher's epic proves the third time's the charm

The Joy of Being Stupid