Mark Wahlberg

Rock's Best Fiction Novelists and Poets

We writers are a masturbatory bunch, if you don't mind me saying so. We love to talk about our own work, the works of others, and generally just get into a huge hubbub over the art of the written word. So I don't think it should come as any surprise that some of our favorite musicians are also accla ... More >>

For Valentine's Day: A Few Musical Bone-Zone Bummers

Today the Internet is awash with song suggestions to help you get your honeys into a sexin' mood, but I've collected some stories from completely real people that I in no way made up to serve as a warning that your Valentine's playlist has got to be foolproof. I've chosen four to prove that with on ... More >>

Ted

Seth McFarlane's new film is stuffed with more of the same.

Food & Film: Laguinats Beer Dinner - Boogie Nights

When The Beach Boys Went To The Movies

The Beach Boys have embarked on a 50th-anniversary reunion tour this year, kicking off the media blitz with a Grammy performance featuring everybody from Maroon 5 to Foster the People. As one of the pioneering rock bands of their era, the Beach Boys made a return to the spotlight that was met with ... More >>

Missed Opportunities: 10 Musicians Who Turned Down Big Hits

Have you ever had one of those moments where you thought to yourself, "Why did I do that?" or "Why did I turn that down?" Those kinds of moments happen to all of us. It's part of life, unfortunately. This happens all the time in the movie world, but you never seem to hear about it in the music worl ... More >>

You Bettah Work: 10 Rock/Pop Musicians Who Could Take Up Modeling

Lucky for Lana Del Rey -- whose awkward-at-best Saturday Night Live performance last weekend left indie critics second-guessing her skill -- she has a backup career on which to fall, if needed. Last week, days before becoming a poor bundle of nerves on SNL, the up-and-(maybe)-coming songstress signe ... More >>

Happy Birthday Leon Theremin: His Invention's Greatest Hits

You wish.​Today marks the 115th birthday of Russian inventor Leon Theremin, inventor of the theremin, one of the eeriest and ookiest instruments created in this past century. Mr. Theremin celebrated quietly with family and friends in his native Russia. Just kidding, he died in 1993. The ther ... More >>

Boobylicious: Music's 20 Most Memorable Breasts (Semi-NSFW)

ztams.comWendy O. Williams, seen here with Motorhead front man Lemmy Kilmister​It may sound silly, but boobs are powerful things. Men are fascinated and entranced by them, while women constantly obsess over their size and shape. In a way, they're not unlike the ring in Lord of the Rings: Capab ... More >>

Friday Night: iceage & Balaclavas At The Mink

Photos by Allison Wagoner​iceage, Balaclavas The Backroom at the Mink July 15, 2011 A lot of folks have a dirty habit of going full-throttle on a new band with only one album and a few singles, lumping praise on them before they can really live up to it. Aftermath has done it in the past (Die ... More >>

Six People Who Should Have Never Tried To Rap

The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place -lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good- so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Have something you always wanted to ask a rapper? Email sheaserrano@gmail.com. ... More >>

For Anthony Weiner, Eight Awkward Dongs From The Movies (NSFW)

Did not make the cut.​In my review of The Hangover Part II, I made a comment about the seeming preponderance of male genitalia on the big screen lately. The phenomenon has been limited primarily to comedies because, let's face it, penises are pretty damn funny looking. Judging by that screeni ... More >>

Pop Rocks: One Of Those "Good News/Bad News" Things

Only this time, no cropped shirts.​Or maybe even "Okay News/Bad News," depending on your feelings regarding San Dimas High School football. That's right, the rumors you've heard may or may not be true in that a third Bill and Ted movie might or might not be getting made: Keanu Reeves has be ... More >>

Colin Firth for Best Actor? Not So Fast.

​I realize the actual Academy Awards aren't set to be broadcast until Sunday night, when millions of people will watch -- for the first hour, at least -- as co-hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway lob Nerfball zingers at their fellow actors, make passively tasteless jokes about speech impedime ... 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 >>

Cop Out

Will Ferrell and Adam McKay re-team, with decreasing ­returns.

FAIL: Wyclef Jean, Richard Ashcroft, Mark Wahlberg, iTunes

Photo illustrations by John Seaborn Gray​Wyclef Jean's Latest Vanity Project: President of Haiti: Wyclef Jean is best known for being the member of the Fugees who quite improbably enjoyed the most solo success. We would have bet on Lauryn Hill, but unfortunately, she went crazy. Crazy may be ... More >>

Cop Out

Will Ferrell and Adam McKay re-team, with decreasing ­returns.

Does Being An Actor Compromise Your Rap Career?

Some rappers happen to be thoughtful, intelligent people. Every Monday that isn't a national holiday, Rocks Off will have some of them discussing issues relevant to their culture. This Week's Panel: Paul Wall, Damien Randle, Sam Sneed Not Invited: Freekey Zeekey, for getting Dipset back together ... More >>

Glee: Faking The "Funk"

​"Daddy?" "Yes, son?" "What does regret mean?" "Well son, the funny thing about regret is that it's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done. And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend, will you be sure and tell her SATAN! SATAN! SATAN!" - Butth ... More >>

Glee: Faking The "Funk"

​"Daddy?" "Yes, son?" "What does regret mean?" "Well son, the funny thing about regret is that it's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done. And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend, will you be sure and tell her SATAN! SATAN! SATAN!" - Buttho ... More >>

In the Cards

Houston's funkiest sports bar is but one outpost of Houston's biggest poker league.

Inside the Rappers Studio

Are you an aging hip-hop performer? Then the Rap Institute of Acting is for you!

Nine Things Not to Be Thankful For

I understand that yesterday was Thanksgiving, and that we're supposed to be all thankful and everything. But seriously, did any of you watch those football games? How can a person be thankful after being subjected to nearly 11 hours of blow-out football? So in that spirit, I've put together a lis ... More >>

Led Zeppelin Pulls a Van Hagar

We Rent the Night: Pride and Glory

New York cop drama holds the audience hostage

Five Spot: Eminem Releasing New Album, Still White

NASA At 50: Five Bad Astronaut Movies

In the Shade: Evak1

Crackers & Cheese

We Aren't the World

How the Americans fared at Cannes.

Shooter

Who better to save America than an armed Mark Wahlberg? Seriously

Royal Flush

Invincible

Feel-good football tale scores with charm and sincerity

The Impossible Bomb

Funky Bunch

Mark Wahlberg stars in an odd remake that, oddly, isn't so bad

Method Rocking

Minnie Driver and Juliette Lewis have started bands. Come on, you know you're curious.

Second Run

Celebrating the overachieving, underhyped movies of 2004

Say Wha? Say Why?

Searching for the meaning of life in a movie that barely exists

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Safe, Cracked

The Italian Job, a remake better than the original, is a steal

Charlie's Angles

Jonathan Demme does Charade in his own carefree way

Played Out

The filmmakers have consumed all the standard clichés and yakked them up in the humorless Rock Star

Aping an Icon

Tim Burton monkeys around with the original Planet of the Apes, but is it evolution?

Better in Pairs

Generally a letdown, the year in film offered some well-crafted works that are best viewed as double features

Rave Rules

No one over 25 should be in attendance, but if you are, here's the game plan

Familiar Turf

The Yards authoritatively walks in the footsteps of some famous filmmakers

Desert Gold

An imaginative Three Kings skewers the combat genre

Porn Yesterday

The hugely ambitious Boogie Nights revisits the sex-film world of the 1970s

Getting Hooked, Brilliantly

With The Basketball Diaries, Leonardo DiCaprio becomes a star