Johnny Depp

Let Me Wash That for You, Honey

Get Lit: Fame Us: Celebrity Impersonators and the Cult(ure) of Fame, by Brian Howell

Six Feet Blunder

Bring out your dead -- and wait

Chocolate Kisses

Thanks to Depp and Burton, Willy Wonka just got weirder

My Life As A Grape

What's Eating Gilbert Grape -- growing up eccentric in a small Iowa town

Lover Men

Three films offer differing takes on the myth of the romantic hero

For Groundhog Day -- The Five Best Movie Rodents

February 2 marks that special days in Western civilization, in which we commemorate the mystical powers of a being emerging from a hole in the ground. No, I'm not talking about Easter, but rather Groundhog Day. And what better way to mark the annual resurrection of Punxsutawney Phil then listing som ... More >>

They're the Queers, They're Here

February 2 marks that special days in Western civilization, in which we commemorate the mystical powers of a being emerging from a hole in the ground. No, I'm not talking about Easter, but rather Groundhog Day. And what better way to mark the annual resurrection of Punxsutawney Phil then listing som ... More >>

Contact High

Fear and Loathing is the latest in Terry Gilliam's cinematic revolution

Night & Day

June 25 - July 1, 1998

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson

A documentary reveals the rise and fall of an influential writer

Feature Photo

A documentary reveals the rise and fall of an influential writer

You're So Money

A documentary reveals the rise and fall of an influential writer

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

It's time to throw Jack Sparrow overboard

Fool's Gold

The Pirates are back, and they're out to ransack your wallet

There's the Party, Yar!

Dusk Til Dawn Film Fest Pirate Party

Think Pink

Run over cancer at the Komen Houston Race for the Cure

Love in Gloom

Tim Burton is dead-on again in the darkly delightful Corpse Bride

Excess Hollywood

In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise.

Peter Panache

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

Letters

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

Johnny's Show

Depp saves the day in Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Depp's of the Sea

In Johnny and the crew's slick and handsome Pirates of the Caribbean, more is somehow less

Blood Brothers

Albert and Allen Hughes deliver a sensuous but grisly message From Hell.

Crocodile Tears

It's hard to feel any sympathy for the aesthetes in The Man Who Cried

Coke and a Smile

Ambitious Blow explores the highs and lows of the '70s cocaine trade

Horseman, Pass By

Sleepy Hollow looks great, but it's less filling than Washington Irving

Mann on the Run

Johnny Depp is superb as John Dillinger in the fast and furious Public Enemies.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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Pop Rocks: New Blood For Hollywood. Please

​I used to review movies (over here, if you care), an endeavor I had to quit for a variety of reasons: my hectic neurosurgery rotation, for one, as well as the increasing physical demands of the new Mrs. Vonder Haar, Carla Gugino. But among the non-imaginary factors influencing my decision was the ... More >>

Win A Free Public Enemies DVD; Check Out Five Other "Enemy" Movies

Johnny Depp is the "sexiest man alive." I know this because it's what I've been told by People magazine, my wife, all my wife's friends, my sister, and that girl I dated in college who used to make me watch 21 Jump Street before she'd allow me to get her clothes off.He's also the star of Public Ene ... More >>

Only Hours Remain To Win Your Public Enemies DVD

​It's getting near the end if you hope to stuff someone's stocking with Johnny Depp this year for free -- our giveaway of three Public Enemies DVDs finishes tonight.We're asking you to describe just why Depp is so sexy, since he keeps getting chosen Sexiest Man Alive and all that kind of stuff.We' ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Win A Couples Retreat DVD, And Discover The Five Best Paradise-Gone-Bad Movies

​A tropical retreat sounds pretty good right about now, as Houston begins yet another in a seemingly unending series of cold (well, relatively), rainy weeks. Unfortunately, in this economy the odds are slim that any of you can afford to just drop everything and jet off to Antigua for a weekend.As ... More >>

Movies That Make Us Hungry

Big Night​It's really freaking hot outside, in case you hadn't noticed. And when it's really freaking hot, we get really freaking lazy (more so than usual) and we want to watch movies. Lots of them. In succession. Trouble is, movie theaters are crazy-expensive and this summer's movie lineup ... More >>

Once Upon a Time in Mexico Feast

If only all hit men were this good looking

No Lady Gaga: Celebrities We Wish Had Sex Dolls Made Of Them

He's no Johnny Depp​Yesterday on the Rocks Off blog we unveiled the Lady Gaga sex doll, Lady Gag Gag. Comments were mixed on the doll, ranging from utter confusion and strange attraction from both sexes. One commenter claimed that the model on the box was even more attractive than the real G ... More >>

Top 10 Celebrity Music-Video Cameos

​Ratt, "Round and Round" Thursday night, Ratt hits up Warehouse Live with what passes for their original line-up. At their peak, the band was a gritty and decadent alternative to bands like Poison, skewing closer to Motley Crue in terms of excess and drug abuse. ​The band managed to ... More >>

Bank Robbery Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Criminals?

Few of today's bank robbers look like Johnny Depp​The FBI has just released its bank-robbery statistics for the first quarter of 2010. A total of 1,183 financial institutions were robbed in the first three months of the year.How well do you know your modern-day Pretty Boy Floyds?1. Which ethnic gr ... More >>

"Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship"

See artifacts from a storied pirate ship

Drunk Halloween Parties: Five Ways To Avoid Humiliation

Yeah, yeah, those pumpkins are "smashed"​Halloween is especially dangerous this year -- it's on a Sunday, and so that means it's perfectly reasonable to have parties not only on Friday, but on Saturday too.And that means double the chances of getting drunk and doing something you'll regret very mu ... More >>

Keith Richards Does Life As Only He Can

​Life By Keith Richards with James Fox Little, Brown, And Company, 576 pp, $29.99. Watch this first. It's Keef's own intro to Life: "It starts with a bang." The first chapter of Keith Richards' first-ever memoir, Life, reads like a deleted scene from the Johnny Depp movie Blow. There are kni ... More >>

Last Night: Agent Orange At Fitzgerald's

Photos by David Ensminger​Agent Orange Fitzgerald's January 9, 2010 In the 1987 21 Jump Street episode "Mean Streets and Pastel Houses," fresh-faced Johnny Depp goes undercover as a punk to root out vicious gangland teenage thugs lurking in the inner city. He ends up at a rowdy punk concert r ... More >>

Top 10 Musician Movie Cameos

Rocks Off has no idea why Mick Jagger might prefer Performance to Ned Kelly.​Over recent years, Rocks Off has been repeatedly surprised by the quality performances of musicians in films. Naturally, there are some duds in the mix; even Mick Jagger himself, who starred in 1970's Ned Kelly, disow ... More >>

Blake Broadway: Fear And Loathing in Lufkin Vegas

Blake Broadway probably doesn't look like Johnny Depp, either​"The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab," wrote Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. "We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a ... More >>

Dealing with Child Porn

Prosecutors talk about the evidence,

Captain Jack Won't Die

Searching for eternal life in the interminable Pirates of the Caribbean.

Your 2011 Fall/Winter Movie Preview - Part 2

​You know the drill: the fall movie season starts today, my pretties (my review of Contagion will be up soon...there's a reason it didn't make the preview). Yesterday we covered the first half of 2011's most anticipated upcoming releases, determined through a rigorous scientific analysis consi ... More >>

The Ghost of Hunter Thompson

An oddly tame adaptation of The Rum Diary.

5 Bands Your Musician Friends Love...But You Don't

austinpost.comYep. Robert Plant "copped everything" from this guy.​In a 2005 interview with Esquire, Johnny Depp discusses the unwavering authenticity of Hunter S. Thompson, and likens his late friend to another great, often-troubled mind, saying: "...like Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elev ... More >>

Who Gives a Shit About Katy Perry!? Vanessa Paradis is About to be Single!

​Houston Press was ecstatic when slutwave superstar Katy Perry and comedian Russell Brand broke up, though there were some very different motivations amongst the staff for that joy. For instance, Craig Hlavaty chose that opportunity to place himself in the draft pick for being her next paramou ... More >>