Subject: John Cusack

• Miss Pop Rocks: Lloyd Dobler, How Could You?

  November 7, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: Van Halen in Houston

  November 16, 2007

• Miss Pop Rocks Has the Flu

  January 22, 2008

• Dear Patrick Swayze, Please Get Better Fast. Love, Miss Pop Rocks.

  March 7, 2008

• DVD Review: Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

  September 4, 2008

• A Bust on Broadway

  Good idea, good characters, bad result; Allen's roll comes to a stop

  October 27, 1994

• Control Freaks

  Being John Malkovich pulls all the right strings

  November 4, 1999

• Diary of a Madwoman

  Not even Renée Zellweger can make us Jones for this sarcastic romance

  April 12, 2001

• Dogging Ellroy

  James Ellroy is straddling popularity and acclaim

  May 17, 2001

• Artist of the Week: Room 101

  Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com. Here at Rocks Off we’ve interviewed groups, we’ve interviewed singular artists, we’ve even interviewed a singular artist who referred to himself as a group, but we have never had the opportunity to interview a person

  November 19, 2008

• Enema of the People

  November 3, 1994

• City Hall Confusion

  February 22, 1996

• For Valentine's Day: The Five Worst Romantic Comedies

  With Valentine's Day approaching, tbe best most of you poor single bastards can hope for is to get through the night with your bank account relatively intact. Married folks are better off, as all they're really expected to come up with is a perfunctory gift and maybe an evening spent watching a dreaded "romantic comedy" (or "rom-com," as the genre is referred to by Communists and pederasts) on DVD. Even if that's the case, there are plenty of pitfalls to avoid. It was an exhausting process, but

  February 11, 2009

• A Killer

  April 10, 1997

• Air Disaster

  June 5, 1997

• History in the Faking

  November 20, 1997

• Denatured Dixie

  November 27, 1997

• As You Get Ready For South Padre: The Five Best Spring Break Movies

  Spring Break! Since time immemorial (or the mid-20th century, anyway) it's been a rite of passage for college students to spend their days on the beach, presenting their hindquarters to potential suitors, and their nights crammed into structurally unsound firetraps alongside hundreds of potential date rapists and venereal-disease vectors. Cherish those memories, if you still retain any.5. Where the Boys Are (1960) For a movie released when Americans only had missionary position sex while fully c

  March 11, 2009

• Unconventional Conflict

  January 14, 1999

• Control Freaks

  April 22, 1999

• Artist of the Week: O Pioneers!!!

  Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com. If we were forced by threat of death to compare music to various types of seafood dishes (which happens daily, we assume), we'd have to say that punk rock is probably the crab legs of musical genres. (Obscure, we know, but t

  March 18, 2009

• Grace Is Gone

  A Marine mom dies in Iraq

  January 10, 2008

• Martian Child

  Schmaltzy Martian Child attacks John Cusack, all dads

  November 1, 2007

• Caligula: Imperial Edition, The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, 1408: Collector's Edition and Mystics in Bali

  October 4, 2007

• Tapes 'N' Tapes

  Bringing strangers together via the International Mixtape Project

  September 13, 2007

• 1408

  Who woulda thunk it: 1408 is a terrifying, touching Stephen King adaptation

  June 21, 2007

• Disturbia

  With Hitchcock in its rear window, bland voyeur thriller does its best not to perturb(ia)

  April 12, 2007

• The Kids Are Not Alright

  From Dakota Fanning's rape to John Cusack's daddy issues, Sundance 2007 was all about the kiddie porn.

  February 1, 2007

• Anchor man?

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

  November 9, 2006

• Common Cold

  Harold Ramis's Ice Harvest is just a reheated Christmas caper

  November 24, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  November 10, 2005

• Get Inside. It's Summertime!

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

  June 14, 2007

• Puppy Love

  John Cusack is another endearing mutt in Must Love Dogs

  July 28, 2005

• The Devil & Mr. Zombie

  The rocker's second directorial stab yields a true gorefest

  July 21, 2005

• Hot for Teacher

  Jack Black makes School of Rock rock

  October 2, 2003

• Identity Crisis

  James Mangold's latest looks scary, plays funny and might be genius for it

  April 24, 2003

• From Hell to the Theater

  The Houston Press Indie Film Series makes its debut

  April 17, 2003

• Max Factors

  Writer-director Menno Meyjes asks, what if Hitler were once a human being?

  February 27, 2003

• Blood Money

  Why John Cusack wouldn't do anything till he made this Hitler movie

  January 23, 2003

• Back to the Future

  Most of this year's best won't be seen until next

  January 2, 2003

• The Year of Living Dangerously

  Cinema 2002 counterbalanced a treacherous world

  January 2, 2003

• Fight Club

  When it comes to producing movies, it's a fine art (or Art Linson)

  July 11, 2002

• Game Boy

  Hugh Grant shows real substance in a solid comedy about growing up

  May 16, 2002

• Revolting

  Meet The New Guy, same as the old guy

  May 9, 2002

• Ready to Rock?

  Supagroup and the Violent Femmes

  June 8, 2000

• All Things Irish

  Erin goes blah in the gloomy mix of This Is My Father

  June 17, 1999

• Creep Show

  May 14, 2009

• Screen Plays

  May 21, 2009

• For Woodstock: The Five Lamest Hippies In The Movies

  Forty years ago this weekend, hundreds of thousands of unkempt youngsters descended on the town of Bethel, NY for an advertised "three days of peace and music." Woodstock has since become etched into our country's history, not just for symbolizing the 1960s, but also for unleashing the continuing threat to our national security that is the hippie. Popularly maligned for their (lack of) hygiene and adherence to outdated values like peace and love, hippies take a particular beating in popular cult

  August 14, 2009

• Pop Rocks: Dear John...Cusack

  ​You used to be cool, John Cusack.We first noticed it in the 1980s, when "cool" didn't have a lot of meaning. People used the word in connection with Jan Hammer, the Go-Bots, and Kirk Cameron, which should give you an idea how lost we really were. But somehow you dodged the pitfalls of The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire to appear in some of the best and most beloved movies of that era. Yes, there was also Hot Pursuit and Grandview, USA, but Better Off Dead, Eight Men Out, and Say Anything

  November 5, 2009