Kevin Costner

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

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

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

A Wish List For Austin's Movie Memorabilia Sale

Top Five Houstonians As Hurricanes

For Love of the Game

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

Yee-haw City

The Cowboy Way takes a fun ride through New York

Uurrpp!

Kevin Costner makes a mess of a cowboy legend

The Wet Look

Waterworld is a whirlpool of dazzling action, and muddled ideas

The Games Men Play

Shelton and Costner team up again for more sporting success

Good-bye to Summer

What this year's movies portend for next year

Return to Sender

With The Postman, Kevin Costner fails to deliver

Cryin' Shame

Too sweet tears turn Message into mush

News Hostage

End of the Road

Into the Sunset

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

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

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

Jesus Is tha Bomb

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

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

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

Indian Giver

The Missing misses plenty, except ancient prejudices

Time and Again

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

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

The Lord's Work?

Bill Paxton's Frailty is too twisted for its own good

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Pop Rocks: Is Avatar Doomed?

​Catch James Cameron talking about Avatar on 60 Minutes last night? I thought it was awfully sporting of Viacom to throw some publicity at a movie it doesn't appear to have any stake in for once. Cameron, as usual, exuded confidence about the project. He explained his desire to make the film sinc ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

NFL & College Football -- Weekend's Best Bets (Nepotism Edition)

Keeping it in the family​Okay, last week's Best Bets were centered around a random string of stories from around the internet, good enough for a 3-3 record, which means it's still yielding better results than 2009, but still not good enough for me. And damn sure not good enough for you. So ... More >>

Rich Man's Recession

The Company Men takes pity on the emasculated executive.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>