Oliver Stone

Savages

Oliver Stone's drug-trade drama settles for sensation.

2012 Summer Guide: Summer Movie Preview

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 >>

For President's Day: The Best Movie Portrayals of 15 Presidents

Portraying presidents on screen is always tricky. Crass imitation makes the thing look like a comedy skit, but completely ignoring the mannerisms and voice that people know doesn't work either. There have been some laughingly inept acting jobs when it comes to the 44 people who have been the countr ... More >>

The 10 Most Iconic John Williams Scores Ever

Today John Williams turns 80 years old, and the prolific composer has packed in a lot of work in the past five decades as one of the most iconic movie music makers to lead an orchestra. No doubt you have been enthralled, enraptured and enfrightened (not a word) by his collaborations with George Luca ... More >>

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

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, and perhaps the greatest college football/politician scandal ev ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Wall Street Bailout

Stone's sequel lets the bad guys off easy.

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Five Movie Presidents Worse Than W.

Bush's Brain: W.

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

Who Wants to See W.?

Slo-Mo Football-Movie Finales: The Top Five

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

In the Valley of Elah

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

Feeling Feverish?

Weed Killer

Farce of a Champion

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

Bill Kills

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

Back in the Saddle

The Cowboy Junkies ride again

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

Paydirt!

Oliver Stone delivers the ultimate guy movie with Any Given Sunday

Rap Actor

LL Cool J rocks microphone, silver screen

Hands Up

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

Night & Day

March 11 - 17, 1999

Year of Yearning

The old were bold in an era of Hollywood mainstream misses

Animal Urges

Errol Morris examines the desire for control

Pulp Without Politics

Can Oliver Stone leave his obsessions behind?

Letters

The Year in Film

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

Power Trip

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

Cat Man Dues

Panther is a sincere, but self-defeating, exercise

B.S. 101

John Singleton's Higher Learning fails to make the grade

Press Picks

Media Mad

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

Standing at the Gates of Heaven

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

Being There

An interview with JFK -- more or less

The Final Conspiracy

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