Subject: Kevin Bacon

• Single White Shoe

  February 2, 2007

• Miss Pop Rocks: Remaking Footloose Is Satan’s Work

  September 21, 2007

• Six Degrees of Charlie Wilson’s War

  January 8, 2008

• Last Night: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers at Super Bowl XLII

  February 4, 2008

• Crippled Inside

  Shakespeare's most malevolent monarch is marvelously remade for the movies

  February 1, 1996

• Invisible Id

  Insipid Hollow Man uses science to explore the outer edges of puerile male aggression

  August 3, 2000

• Dental Damned

  David Atkins's Novocaine numbs even Steve Martin

  November 15, 2001

• Family Man

  Christopher Titus turns dysfunctional into comical

  August 19, 2004

• Into Africa

  January 27, 1994

• Streep in the Wild

  September 29, 1994

• Moonstruck

  July 6, 1995

• The Year in Film

  December 28, 1995

• Revenge Is... Adequate

  October 24, 1996

• Press Picks

  April 10, 1997

• Friday The 13th: The Best Kills

  Today marks the reboot of the venerated Friday the 13th franchise, and what better way to get up to speed on the history of Jason Voorhees and Camp Crystal Lake than to study this carefully assembled list of the best death scenes from each of the 11 Ft13 flicks?Friday the 13th -- BaconationHappily, Mrs. Voorhees never really jammed an arrow through a young Kevin Bacon's throat, leaving him and his brother free to entertain millions with their music. Pity that movie career never really got off th

  February 13, 2009

• Perfect Mess

  July 31, 1997

• Rotation

  February 12, 1998

• For the Rodeo: Five Best Movie Parades

  It's Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo time! Tomorrow's Go Texan Day and Saturday's the parade. Certainly some of you out there are looking forward to watching musical acts from 200 feet away and the lingering smells of hay, manure, and sweaty, sweaty cowboys. So sit back, kick your boots off, and get in that rodeo spirit with some of cinema's best parades.5. Hello, Dolly! (1969) It probably isn't fair to blame Barbra Streisand for the death of the big-budget movie musical, and the total lack of

  February 26, 2009

• Aftermath: Reba McEntire at RodeoHouston

  Photos by Mark C. AustinReba McEntire is the closest modern country will ever get to the artistic heights of its pioneering female vocalists. Sure Tanya Tucker had her run but the booze, powders and Glen Campbell took their toll. Shania Twain was just a Nashville/Pat Benatar Frankenstein project. And all the others were B-teamers shoving out their shingle on Music Row in hopes of at least landing a spot a county fair or a gig shilling corn chips. When it comes to heavy-hitting mamas like

  March 12, 2009

• Night & Day

  May 6, 1999

• Nixon in a Deep Frost

  Langella and Sheen capture a summit of egos as Frost/Nixon goes from stage to screen

  December 11, 2008

• A Stir of Bacon

  Ghostly Echoes add up to a posthypnotic thriller

  September 9, 1999

• Are You Hot Enough for Citizen Lounge?

  February 21, 2008

• Spazmatics = Revenge of the Replicants

  February 7, 2008

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  September 30, 2004

• Frank McComb at the Breakfast Klub

  Funky soul jazz comes to Midtown

  July 5, 2007

• Communication Breakdown

  Storytelling gimmicks can't save this vapid, globally conscious puzzle-film

  November 9, 2006

• Strange Brew

  The Truth is, Egoyan's latest is B-movie noir, with killer performances

  October 27, 2005

• Sketchy Characters

  August 3, 2006

• Get Inside. It's Summertime!

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

  June 14, 2007

• Cut and Paste

  Beauty Shop is clipped straight from its predecessors

  March 31, 2005

• Extended Sentence

  A convicted pedophile earns his release but can't escape from himself

  January 13, 2005

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  September 23, 2004

• Indecent Disposal

  James Toback wastes an uninhibited Neve on a cheesy Adrian Lyne rip-off

  September 23, 2004

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  September 16, 2004

• Shake, Shake, Shake

  Shake your booty at the Great Caruso Dinner Theater's Footloose

  September 2, 2004

• The Hard Sell

  Local filmmaker Shane Carruth won Sundance's top honor. So...now what?

  February 12, 2004

• The Sorrow and the Pity

  In a year of big-screen sadness, our critics comfort those who triumphed

  January 1, 2004

• Not the Sweetest Thing

  What a bad feeling -- and taste -- Honey leaves behind

  December 4, 2003

• Ryan's Hope

  Jane Campion guides Meg Ryan through a stunning career transformation In the Cut

  October 30, 2003

• Rage Against the Past

  Eastwood takes a guilt trip down the mighty Mystic River

  October 23, 2003

• Fitz's Flick

  Sara Fitzgerald commits her 25 years behind bars to celluloid

  May 22, 2003

• Ice Ice Maybe

  A decade after Vanilla Ice melted down, he's back with the man who made him

  July 4, 2002

• Jason Goes to Space

  You'll bust at the comic, cosmic carnage of Jason X

  April 25, 2002

• The Man of Many Face

  Christopher Guest takes his comedy very, very seriously

  October 19, 2000

• Dog Breath

  Adaptation of Willie Morris's childhood memoir has too many fleas

  March 2, 2000

• A Dog's Life

  A former Houston Post writer recalls how she pawed her way

  to the top in Hollywood

  February 24, 2000

• Rotation

  March 25, 1999

• Game Time: Brad Mills Shows Bald Is Beautiful

  ​The biggest story locally this week has probably been the Astros hiring of Brad Mills. While some see it as the dawning of a new era for the Astros, I for one am sad to see the pageant that was Star Search 2009 end.So many memories...watching Drayton and Tal parade all ten candidates around...hearing them each answer a couple questions from the media to test their poise (was really hoping for Ned Yost to go all Miss Teen South Carolina in that part)...but my favorite memory? I, for one, will

  October 29, 2009

• Artist of the Week: Time Travelers and Staunch Futurama Defenders Holy Fiction

  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. ​ Occasionally, you'll hear a band name and think, "Well this band has to be good." Guerilla Maab, for instance, is a fabulous name. Guerillas are cool. Maab is a slang term for mob; slang terms are cool. Mobs are even coole

  November 18, 2009