John Carpenter

Stand Up Guys

A blow to Al Pacino's Legacy

Your Halloween Playlist: Don't Play That, Play This

Recently Rocks Off told you how to put together a solid party playlist. We're coming up on the time of year when people start throwing Halloween parties, so now it's time to get a little more specific. Don't be content to throw on the old 30 Spookiest Halloween Hits album and walk away, because gue ... More >>

Rob Zombie, Lord of Salem, Now a Twin of Evil on Tour

Rob Zombie's career has played out like a good horror movie: A surprise at every turn. His '90s band White Zombie put a firm tongue in cheek (and a whole lotta metal) into Alice Cooper-style theatrics, and after 1996's Supersexy Swingin' Sounds, exited stage left as one of the most remix-friendly ha ... More >>

The Anarchist Song Book

Noise musician BLACKIE searches for total freedom in music.

Red Lights

Rodrigo Cortés's thriller Red Lights doesn't inspire faith.

They Live

Prisoners of Sex: 10 Movie Womanizers, from the Sick to the Sublime

The movies are full of bed-hopping men -- think of Humphrey Bogart's serial flirtations in The Big Sleep (1946), and Richard Roundtree laying his way uptown and down in Shaft (1971). But in Steve McQueen's Shame, slated to open in Houston December 16, womanizing is not just an outgrowth of the plot ... More >>

Pop Rocks: The Kardashians' Popularity, Explained

America, you have serious problems: It was business--big business--as usual for Kourtney & Kim Take New York and The Walking Dead. Here's what the shows' Sunday-night TV ratings performances meant: For Kourtney & Kim, the reality-show's season premiere, which scored a series-best 3.2 million view ... More >>

Brain-Eating Bands and Songs for the Walking Dead

ssgmusic.com​Zombies or vampires? It's a classic debate along the line of The Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones. We're not sure the Fab Four qualifies as either monster, but with The Glimmer Twins' propensity to remain upright and touring despite advanced age, decay, and a million other complicat ... More >>

Your 2011 Fall/Movie Preview (Part 1)

​Note: Pop Rocks will return next week. Labor Day has come and gone, which means the official start of the fall movie season is just around the corner. In fact, two of the more anticipated releases of latter 2011 -- Warrior and Contagion -- come out tomorrow. After what has been widely rega ... More >>

The Ten Worst Movies of 2011...In Advance

Oh, don't act surprised.​2011 is barely out of the oven and I'm already filled with dread. Could it be the fact I've spent the entire year so far coughing up chunks of green lung tissue? That I've finally despaired of ever finding a writing gig that doesn't involve "Lady Gaga sex tape" Google ... More >>

The Top 10 Horror-Movie Scores Of All Time

Not on the list...ha-ha!​The art of the instrumental horror-film score is quickly being lost. All too often now, filmmakers are using heavy metal and pop music to soundtrack their films. Hearing Slipknot or HIM during a stabbing scene just doesn't hold the same weight to us as some tubular bel ... More >>

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: Remake My Day

​When it comes to movie remakes, I always think of Die Hard. Specifically, this Alan Rickman line: Sooner or later, I might get to someone you do care about! Granted, he was trying to force McClane to tell him where his detonators were, but the same sentiment applies to "reimagining" our fav ... More >>

Dan O'Bannon, R.I.P. (Yes, You Know His Work)

​Dan O'Bannon passed away yesterday. Who? You may be asking, like the ignorant hipsters you are. O'Bannon got his start writing the screenplay and designing the F/X for Dark Star, one of John Carpenter's first movies. Doesn't ring a bell? He also worked on the computer effects for a little art-ho ... More >>

They Live

Beings from another planet infiltrate L.A.'s high-society scene - how can anyone tell the difference?

For WrestleMania: The Five Best Acting Jobs By Wrestlers

You can act like Houston hosting one of the biggest sporting events of the year isn't that big a deal, but 70,000 screaming whack-jobs with rage issues descending upon our fair city from the four corners of the earth would probably disagree. And if you think wrestling contributes nothing of value t ... More >>

Coraline in Wonderland

Things are not as they seem in Henry Selick's stunning stop-motion fairy tale

Houston's Most Unique Address

Get Inside. It's Summertime!

Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

Grindhouse

Rodriguez and Tarantino overcome nostalgia in their cut-and-run grindhouse mash note

Eating for Two

Kicking French Ass

District B13 puts American action movies to shame

Eliot Lipp

Friday, April 21, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-629-3700

Heavenly Hag

Emma Thompson's Nanny McPhee becomes a thing of beauty

Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Where the Art Is

FotoFest's "Home and Garden" show is one of the best on the block

Unlucky 13

This Assault attacks the original and does no damage

Up from the Underworld

This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music

Up from the Underworld

This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music

Out of Focus?

Scotty Crane is tired of getting the shaft from Paul Schrader

Did She or Didn't She?

The Alley opens Summer Chills with a play that will keep you guessing till the very end

Rave Rules

No one over 25 should be in attendance, but if you are, here's the game plan

Witch Way Did It Go?

BW2 spoils the mystery of the original - while creating a few of its own

All in Vein

Clichs are the real killers in the anemic action film Vampires

I Lava L.A.!

Volcano destroys the City of Angels with hot magma and cool affection

No Escape

Beat the Heat!

1996 Summer Guide

Bloody Fun

Tarantino meets Rodriguez and, no surprise, all hell breaks loose

Bad Seeds

To Hell and Back

Image is all (but not enough) in the supernatural thriller Hideaway