Kevin Costner

A Gallery Of U.S. Presidents Working On Their Fitness

I don't know about you guys, but when I looked at the crop of Republican presidential candidates about a year ago, as the media and primary wars waged on, I could only think about what they would look like jogging or working out. It's a hidden hot-button issue. Depraved, mindless people like me vote ... More >>

Whitney Houston, Actress

Surveying the great diva's checkered film career.

Drafting A New MTV Rock N' Jock Softball Game

If you mention and explain the concept of MTV's Rock N' Jock to '90s babies, they will look at you glassy-eyed and slowly walk away. But it's true, in the late '80s and early '90s it was possible to gather the best and sexiest celebrities in TV, film and music for a carefree softball match, with pro ... More >>

Blue-Eyed Butcher: Lifetime's Susan Wright Movie, Viciously Reviewed By One Of Her Attorneys

Susan Wright is the Houston woman who tied her husband to their bed and stabbed him 193 times. Kelly Siegler is the prosecutor who re-enacted that scene in court, bringing in a bed, tying a fellow prosecutor to it, and then fake-stabbing him 193 times for the jury's sake. Lifetime has made a movie ... More >>

Rap Round Table: What Was Whitney Houston's Best Song?

Some rappers happen to be thoughtful, intelligent people. Each week Rocks Off will have some of them here discussing issues relevant to their culture. Photo illustration by John Seaborn Gray​This Week's Panel: TroubleSum, O.N.E., Medicine Girl, D-Risha, Young Sensation, Kyle Hubbard, Zavey, B ... More >>

55 Pounds of Coke? Six Other Things Found on Galveston Beaches, Ranked from Worst to Best

Whales, gold rings, messages in bottle, coke​A jogger found 55 pounds of cocaine on the beach in Galveston this morning, a bigger haul than the 37 pounds someone else found there a year ago. In both cases, they turned it over to the cops instead of going all low-rent Breaking Bad. Of course, ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Pocket Full Of Kryptonite

Lindsay Lohan's in my next movie? Just leave the bottle.​I'd done a decent job putting the fact they're rebooting the Superman franchise *again* next year out of my mind, that is until a flurry of recent Man of Steel-related news items popped up in the last week or so. "Wait," you're saying, ... More >>

10 Sequels That Don't Need To Happen

Please god, no...​For those who've been pining for the return of the "Blue Steel" and the "Magnum," your patience is about to be rewarded: Ben Stiller is dead in the middle of promoting "Little Fockers," out Dec. 22, but he's already got his eye on yet another sequel: "Zoolander 2." Stiller ... More >>

Rich Man's Recession

The Company Men takes pity on the emasculated executive.

I Would Tweet 4 U: What If Prince Were On Twitter?

Photo illustration by John Seaborn Gray/ Click image to enlarge (trust us)​Sadly, Prince will not be releasing his next album online, despite being one of the first artists to release music exclusively on the Internet. He recently pronounced the Internet as "over," remarking, "All these comput ... More >>

How To Survive The Summer Concert Season

​You may be saying, "Rocks Off, how can you guys be doing a summer concert tips blog when it's almost July?" Well, imaginary naysayer who just had an imaginary conversation with us, here in Houston summer lasts until the trannies off Pacific Street start wearing two pairs of Spanx, which is ... More >>

The Corn N' Oil

​For weeks, we have resisted the urge to write about the Corn N' Oil. After all, this column should be a refuge from the daily stream of petroleum press about the Gulf becoming saturated with incompetence in addition to oil. But the barrage of Kevin Costner clips, BP CEO "Seriously did he just ... More >>

For Opening Day: Five Terrific Baseball Movies, None Of Which Star Kevin Costner

Opening Day is finally here, and we can once again try to resolve our love/hate relationship with the Houston Astros.As of this writing, they are undefeated, so -- so far, so good.Baseball, for all its problems, has long had an unbreakable hold on Americans. So have movies. So here are five great ba ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Yoiks and Away

​When (if) you think of Robin Hood, you probably recall the devil-may-care outlaw in Lincoln-green tights who fought the forces of medieval oppression with a longbow and a band of merry men. If you're lucky, you've caught Errol Flynn's definitive performance in 1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood ... More >>

10 Candidates For The Job Of Astros Manager

Photo by Aaron M. Sprecher​Drayton McLane and his so-called brain trust are supposed to start meeting this week to discuss names for the next manager of the Houston Astros.Brian McTaggart over at Astros.com throws out some of the usual names we would expect to hear -- Jim Fregosi (friend of Ed Wa ... More >>

Dirty, Dirty Hippies Were the Least Odious of Woodstock's Many Shameful Legacies

This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, as if you needed us to remind you. Documentaries, feature films, tours and boxed CD sets have been rolling out all summer in order to wring still more cash from the corpses of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and - to a lesser extent - Country Joe McD ... More >>

For May Day: Five Best Dirty, Rotten, Stinking Commies In The Movies

Once a pre-Christian celebration of the beginning of the summer, May 1 became associated with the labor movement and was eventually appropriated by the Soviet Union. The Cold War has been over for almost 20 years, so what better way to commemorate May Day than by poking fun at some famous movie Com ... More >>

Top Five Houstonians As Hurricanes

A Wish List For Austin's Movie Memorabilia Sale

John Royal’s Top Ten All-Time Greatest Sports Movies

Fuzzy Math: Bowie Kuhn, Marvin Miller and the Baseball Hall of Fame

Directors Series: Stanley Kubrick, American Gangster, Mr. Brooks, Days of Heaven

For a Sucky Team, the Astros Sure Have Retired a Lot of Numbers

Mr. Brooks

Lame psych thriller another low point for Mr. Costner

Summer Concert Survival Guide

Who loves the sun?

Assassination Tango

Controversial docu-drama imagines a post-Bush scenario

That Sinking Feeling

Coast Guard epic succumbs to watery clichés

Jesus Is tha Bomb

The Flunk-Out

Rumor Has It... this Graduate tribute deserves no honors

Mad About It

Costner and Allen are the upside of The Upside of Anger

Metaphor Alert: Bright Red

Like America's current leaders, Viggo and Hidalgo try to "enlighten" the Arabs with Western justice

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

White Dork Down

Silly Caucasian boy Tom Cruise likes to play with Samurai swords

Time and Again

Once more, Denzel's a good cop caught in a bad situation

For Love of the Game

Kevin Costner doesn't make friends. He makes movies, dang it.

Into the Sunset

The beautifully done Open Range still has to graze on the western's leftovers

Twisted Logic

The Recruit is full of surprises -- too many, in fact

Phantom of the Opry

Trying to get to the bottom of the Dr Pepper "Freaky Old Guy" mystery

Count Down

In this Monte Cristo, revenge is a dish best served reheated

Nobody's Here

You probably don't remember actor Marco Perella. Neither does Hollywood.

Foregone Conclusion

Even those who don't remember the Cuban missile crisis will know how it ends, long before Days does

In For The Long Haul

Grandma will make it to her top-level seat in the same four hours it takes the team to play a game

Solid Delivery

Costner scores by striking out the schmaltz

Cryin' Shame

Too sweet tears turn Message into mush

Return to Sender

With The Postman, Kevin Costner fails to deliver

Good-bye to Summer

What this year's movies portend for next year

The Games Men Play

Shelton and Costner team up again for more sporting success

The Wet Look

Waterworld is a whirlpool of dazzling action, and muddled ideas

Uurrpp!

Kevin Costner makes a mess of a cowboy legend

Yee-haw City

The Cowboy Way takes a fun ride through New York