Matthew McConaughey

How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Music Festival: Actors

So Ashton Kutcher allegedly got in a fight at the Stagecoach Music Festival. I know, it's a little mind-boggling, that whole idea. Ashton Kutcher was not only at a country-music festival, but reports say he somehow managed to stay true to his douche-roots and get into a fistfight with a security gua ... More >>

Mud: Killer Matthew

McConaughey is great again, in Mud.

10 Movies to Watch in 2013

In theaters, on demand or wherever.

The 2012 Village Voice Film Critic's Poll

Movies are alive in the Age of McConaughey.

The Rocks Off 100: Miss Leslie, Queen of the Honky-Tonks

Who? Miss Leslie if you're country, Leslie Anne Sloane has played fiddle/violin in both the classical and country/bluegrass styles since age 5. In 2004, she started Miss Leslie and Her Juke-Jointers, which can usually be found once or twice a month at finer roadhouses and honky-tonks in the greater ... More >>

Big Tex: We Offer Our Six Replacements, Starting With Willie Nelson

As you've no doubt heard by now -- or, if you're a Texan, felt like a great disturbance in the force -- State Fair's Big Tex burned to its frame today. The icon for generations of fairgoers was taken down by an electrical short, so at least we don't have terrorists to blame. But it's simply too m ... More >>

Killer Joe

Finger-lickin' wrong

Wait a Minute! Who Is That? Top 10 Videos With Famous Actor Cameos

When you are an actor, you take basically whatever will feed you just as long as you get to perform. Many actors either got their start in music videos or they will appeared in one after they got famous. Oftentimes, they are pretty memorable.

Magic Mike

No so revealing.

St. Patrick's Day Parade

2012 Summer Guide: Summer Movie Preview

For St. Patrick's Day: 10 Notable Irish Texans

This weekend brings St. Patrick's Day, the annual celebration of all things Irish. Even in Texas there are parades. As well there should be, because Irish Texans have definitely made their mark on the world. Like these ten: 10. Matthew McConaughey His Mom was a McCabe. "McConaughey" is Gaelic for ... More >>

Happy Gorilla Suit Day! 5 Music Videos for Celebrating.

Today is National Gorilla Suit Day. We're not explaining it for you because something so magical needs neither intellectual discourse, nor to be held up against the scrutiny of skeptics who are clearly dead inside. Just accept it. Today is National Gorilla Suit Day, and all are commended to observe. ... More >>

Pop Rocks: And Now, Your Least Anticipated Movies of 2012

The end of the year is always a nice time for going to the theater. Studios are desperate to cram anything they want for "awards consideration" into the final two weeks of December, leading to a larger than usual number of thoughtful, well-made films available for your holiday viewing pleasure. Yea ... More >>

Pop Rocks: The Least Anticipated Movies of 2012

The end of the year is always a nice time for going to the theater. Studios are desperate to cram anything they want for "awards consideration" into the final two weeks of December, leading to a larger than usual number of thoughtful, well-made films available for your holiday viewing pleasure. Yea ... More >>

Weed: The Top Ten Texas Stoners of All Time

Matthew McConaughey possibly has experimented​The 82nd session of the august Texas Legislature will no doubt end as all the others have, without decriminalizing marijuana even for medical use. (We're just going out on a limb here with this prediction.) More and more states seem to be getting ... More >>

The 10 Sexiest (Male) Texans Of Our Lifetime

Last week we gave you our 10 Sexiest Texans of Our Lifetime. It was a list that was, admittedly, vagina-biased. We make it up to the people who love guys with this definitive list, which involved more asking around than the first one. Here are, then, the 10 sexiest Texas men of our lives: 10. Sea ... More >>

Another Year

2010 is old news. Here are ten to watch out for in 2011.

Dancing With the Stars: Gridiron or Iron Chef, Your Times Have Come

Last night was the seventh elimination round of this season's Dancing With the Stars, and the second one to see two people go home. I guess at this point in the season the gimmick is starting to wear off? In which case, why not just have fewer contestants to start? Then again, when 16.4 million pe ... More >>

Big Willie Style: The Red Headed Stranger at the Movies

Honeysuckle Rose This weekend at the Woodlands comes one of the most prolific trios of artists to ever appear on the same bill. Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp converge on the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion for what looks to be one of those landmark shows people brag about catching, k ... More >>

Artist of the Week: Keelan

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. As part of our Nightfly tou ... More >>

This Week In Beyonce: Obsessed No. 1 No More, Parisian Holiday, Glamour Cover, Dutch Tantrum and More

Jezebel, via infdaily.comWell, what's Beyonce been up to this week? For starters, Wolverine blew B's semi-erotic thriller Obsessed out of the No. 1 box-office spot, notching $87 million last weekend. Obsessed was also edged by Matthew McConaughey's equally panned romcom Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, w ... More >>

The Haunting in Rhode Island

Matthew McConaughey is scary bad in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.

For Valentine's Day: The Five Worst Romantic Comedies

With Valentine's Day approaching, tbe best most of you poor single bastards can hope for is to get through the night with your bank account relatively intact. Married folks are better off, as all they're really expected to come up with is a perfunctory gift and maybe an evening spent watching a drea ... More >>

The Gourds land a real Haymaker!

Dead to Rights

Dazed and Confused

Catch the high school cult classic that features a young Ben Affleck and Matthew McConaughey

Apocalypse Whatever: Tropic Thunder

Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower

Definitely, Maybe is Absolutely, Positively Rewarding

Can't get enough of Bill Clinton? Have we got a movie for you.

Pity: Fool's Gold

There is no gold at the end of this terrible Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson mash-up

We Hear He's Rolling to Houston Tomorrow Morning to Buy Some Aerosmith Tickets

Oh, Grow Up

Failure is McConaughey's perfect movie, and a pretty good one for us

Swindled Art

Fortunate Son

Sahara has no reason to exist, until you see who made it

Shred-heads

Grind transforms formula into freestyle fun

Hudson Hawked

Kate gets the hard sell in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Big Talkers

The smart Sprecher sisters engage in 13 Conversations About One Thing

The Lord's Work?

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

Shotgun Wedding

With Planner, rookie filmmakers force their characters into some compromising situations

Boot Camp

A pumped-up U-571 recalls Wolfgang Petersen's famous German submarine drama

Reel Time

EDtv tries to upstage Truman on TV's impact

Hard Body Tex-Zen

Phony Folksy

Linklater tries to break out of the slacker doldrums, but misfires

Civics Lesson

Steven Spielberg's Amistad aims high, but oversimplifies

Time to Kill

Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellweger take a Chainsaw to their careers

Letters

To Coldly Go

Contact is more like a close encounter of the turgid kind

Black, White and a Few Shades of Gray

A Time to Kill does John Grisham proud

Sayles' Pitch

The Lies of Texas

In Lone Star, a modern border town confronts race, murder and history

Beat the Heat!

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