Oliver Stone

More "W." From Oliver Stone: Bush The Macker

Slo-Mo Football-Movie Finales: The Top Five

Night & Day

March 11 - 17, 1999

Rap Actor

LL Cool J rocks microphone, silver screen

Who Wants to See W.?

LL Cool J rocks microphone, silver screen

Five Movie Presidents Worse Than W.

LL Cool J rocks microphone, silver screen

Bill Kills

Comedian-actor Bellamy may be the greatest performer he's ever seen

Thank You Lord, For These Thy Gifts: Five Movie Thanksgivings

Thanksgiving isn't just about federally subsidized gluttony and a spike in domestic disturbance calls, it's about slipping into a tryptophan-induced coma while watching TV. This year, instead of enduring another slapstick performance by the Detroit Lions, how about checking out a few Turkey Day them ... More >>

Local Film Commissions Hoping To Catch up To Louisiana

The legislative session is only a month away, and Rick Ferguson knows exactly what he wants out of it -- a plan to help Texas, and Houston especially, catch up to the movie-making boom going on in Louisiana.Texas has fallen behind states like Louisiana and Michigan when it comes to offering financia ... More >>

Being There

An interview with JFK -- more or less

Wayne's World 2

An interview with JFK -- more or less

Standing at the Gates of Heaven

Oliver Stone is knock-knock-knockin', but he just can't get inside his latest Vietnam epic

Media Mad

Combine TV, killing and crowds, and what do you have? Oliver Stone

Press Picks

Combine TV, killing and crowds, and what do you have? Oliver Stone

B.S. 101

John Singleton's Higher Learning fails to make the grade

Cat Man Dues

Panther is a sincere, but self-defeating, exercise

Power Trip

Oliver Stone takes a measured look at how Richard Nixon rose and why he fell

The Year in Film

Though not great, 1995 still produced some movies worth seeing (and reseeing)

Letters

Though not great, 1995 still produced some movies worth seeing (and reseeing)

Foreign Affairs

Though not great, 1995 still produced some movies worth seeing (and reseeing)

Pulp Without Politics

Can Oliver Stone leave his obsessions behind?

Animal Urges

Errol Morris examines the desire for control

Year of Yearning

The old were bold in an era of Hollywood mainstream misses

Hands Up

Ganja, gore and good humor the fun's back in a horror flick

Bush's Brain: W.

Oliver Stone assigns motive to Dubya's m.o., but at this point, who cares?

The Final Conspiracy

Obsessed with a 30-year-old murder, JFK assassinologists go to court to silence one another

Paydirt!

Oliver Stone delivers the ultimate guy movie with Any Given Sunday

In the Valley of Elah

Don't let Paul Haggis's heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

Feeling Feverish?

Don't let Paul Haggis's heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

Weed Killer

Don't let Paul Haggis's heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

Farce of a Champion

Don't let Paul Haggis's heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

World Trade Center

A toned-down Oliver Stone finds uplift in the rubble of the twin towers

Call Him Al

An epic story turns human -- and fallible -- in Oliver Stone's Alexander

Back in the Saddle

The Cowboy Junkies ride again

Still Toxie After All These Years

Lloyd Kaufman's gross-out Troma Studios has a long history of setting the pace for mainstream movies

Sly Foxx

He steals Ali, but will Hollywood give Jamie Foxx a shot at the title?

This Thing On?

Jamie Foxx brings his Ugly Wanda shtick to town

Picking at Scabs

Someone please find some substitute filmmakers for The Replacements

WorldFest Discovered Steven Spielberg...And Oliver Stone...And Ang Lee...And...

​The 43rd Annual WorldFest -- Houston International Film & Video Festival (damn, that's a long name) can claim to have been the launching pad for several major directors; Steven Spielberg, George Lucas (in the same year), Ang Lee, Ridley Scott, Robert Rodriguez, the Coen Brothers, Brian de Pal ... More >>

For San Jacinto Day: Five Victories More Lopsided Than The Texas Army's

​I probably didn't need to remind you that today is the 174th anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto, where Sam Houston led the Texas Army to victory over the forces of General Antonio López de Santa Anna. The battle brought an end to the bloody Texas Revolution, and made siestas unfashiona ... More >>

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Wall Street Bailout

Stone's sequel lets the bad guys off easy.

Last Night: The Black Angels And Black Mountain At Warehouse Live

Photos by Marc BrubakerSee more photos from Wednesday's fever dream in our slideshow.​The Black Angels, Black Mountain Warehouse Live November 17, 2010 Some music is so evocative and overwhelming it can cause you to flash back to before you were even born. Not all of it - when a Mozart sympho ... 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 >>

Medical Alert: Alcohol Is Turning Our Celebrities into Anti-Semites

How drunk celebrities see the world​Time was, a celebrity with negative opinions about "ze Jews" could opine about the threat they posed to Western culture until he/she was blue in the face, and many did (Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh, to name a couple). Then World War II and the Holocaust ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Lights, Camera, Osama

It'll be the feel-good movie of the year.​On the Geologic Internet Time Scale, the news of Osama bin Laden's death took place almost a century ago. We're already fondly recalling our whereabouts when we heard the fateful news (drinking beer and watching The Killing...NEVAR FORGET) and relivi ... More >>

Las Puertas: 10 Things You May Not Know About The Doors

"Hey Robby, don't try to look too not-stoned in our press still. Thanks, buddy."​On this day in 1965, The Doors began recording demos together, laying down some songs set to Jim Morrison's freaky poems. Nearly 50 years later, the band is an exalted classic-rock group, firmly implanted in that ... More >>

Wildfire Relief: The 8 Best Firefighter Movies

​This wildfire stuff is getting ridiculous. The entire state of Texas is experiencing drought, categorized as "extreme" or "exceptional" in 95 percent of the state. Severe lack of rain high winds and high pressure = the fires currently ravaging Bastrop and Montgomery counties. Firefighters ... More >>

Great Man Theories

Clint Eastwood's inspired take on a giant of the 20th Century in J. Edgar.

9 Notable Texas Deaths of 2011: Daniel Boone, Football, Gay Rights & Fodder for JFK Conspiracists

James Hosty: The man who didn't stop Oswald.​Texas gives to the world, and eventually the people who do the giving die. Such was the case in 2011, when at least nine notable Texans joined the Choir Invisible, the Great Majority, the dead. Without them, there would no Weed-Eaters, fewer memori ... More >>