Quentin Tarantino

42: The Brooklyn Museum

42 almost makes a flesh-and-blood man of its hero.

The 2012 Village Voice Film Critic's Poll

Movies are alive in the Age of McConaughey.

The Top 25 Music Videos of 2012, Nos. 5-1

Never before have I agonized so hard over the picks for best music video of the year because never before have I had the kind of selection that 2012 offered. The art form is alive and well like never before, and we are entering a new renaissance of cinemaudio. Today we reach the videos you simply ca ... More >>

Matt Schaub And Five Other Cringeworthy Ear Injuries In Pop Culture

If you were like most Houstonians, your heart sank on Sunday afternoon when you saw Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub hit the ground in agony after getting hit by the Denver Broncos' Joe Mays. Immediately images of last year flew through our heads and within seconds T.J. Yates was in the game - ... More >>

Our Questions For Justin Bieber's "As Long As You Love Me" Video

This week the music video for popper Justin Bieber's newest single "As Long As You Love Me" dropped onto the Internets. Co-starring Quentin Tarantino baddie Michael Madsen as a domineering, protective father, the clip feature Bieber as a rebellious and hellraising boyfriend to Madsen's innocent daug ... More >>

Meet the 2012 HPMA Showcase Nominees: The Journey Agents

Rocks Off reached out to the artists playing this year's Houston Press Music Awards showcase Sunday, August 5, and asked them to introduce themselves. Here's what they sent back. Catch up with the other showcase nominees and see our the rest of our HPMA coverage Rocks Off: When and where was your ... More >>

The Day I Saw Your Heart

Cowboys Are Weird: 10 Odd, Often Kinky, Vintage Comic Book Covers

Cowboys & Aliens was the latest failed attempt to bring back the Western in any form possible, but even if the movie had succeeded it wouldn't have ushered in a cowboy-loving era like before 1970. Cowboys were everywhere, including comic books. And some of those comic book covers were, well, a litt ... More >>

Top 10 Songs Famous Because Of A Movie

​Wednesday night, surf-guitar hero Dick Dale played to a packed Continental Club, in what Rocks Off's buddy Lonesome Onry and Mean and several others have since said was one of the best shows they've ever seen. The song that sent everyone home with their ears ringing and their fingers on fire ... More >>

14 Things You Didn't Know About Rick Springfield

2. Rick Springfield is a stone cold sex fiend... ​In recent years, many musicians have put down their instruments (at least temporarily) and picked up the computer keyboard to produce some pretty revelatory memoirs. And in one case, perhaps too revelatory - Billy Joel recently pulled the plug ... More >>

Lost at the Chateau Marmont

From party girl to Oscar winner, Sofia Coppola's journey to Somewhere.

Last Night: Michael Bolton At Jones Hall

Photos by Craig Hlavaty​Michael Bolton with the Houston Symphony Jones Hall September 8, 2010 It was a little over a year ago that Aftermath saw Yanni, and just a few months back that we saw Kenny G. Wednesday night we saw Michael Bolton, forming a power-trio of artists that you're not suppos ... More >>

(Allegedly) Kinky ATF Agent Gets In Big Trouble In Big Easy

​What began as a routine investigation of a malfunctioning fire-alarm system at a suburban New Orleans Residence Inn ended with police discovering a scene worthy of Quentin Tarantino and Dennis Hopper at their most depraved and the arrest of 44-year-old Russell Vanderwerf, a Houston-based agen ... More >>

Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.

Thao, with Xiu Xiu

The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Sugar Bean Sisters, The Turn of the Screw, Young and Fertle

MySpaced Out

Our social-network scout sizes up some all-female Scandinavian bands

The Year In Film

Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

This horror flick recounts the night of the living McNugget

When He Was Small

Cannes d'Awards

Foreign films dominate this year at Cannes.

Palme d'Hoberman

Our one-man jury bestows honors on the best of Cannes 2007.

America Cannes

Art imitates life as U.S. directors command this year's fest, with only China rivaling for celluloid domination.

Dolemite Is Dynamite!

Or had you forgotten?

Love the Sin

Keira Get Your Gun

Domino chronicles the life of a model-turned-bounty hunter

Color Bind

What's black and white and red all over? Sin City, pal.

Get Lost

It'd Be Cool if this sequel were any good. Too bad it ain't.

Made in Japan

The MFAH pays homage to an American's love of Eastern film

They've Got Game

Childhood fun turns into obsession in Love Me If You Dare

When Men Were Men

Clint Eastwood cries no tears in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Year of the Woman

The big-screen dames of cinema 2003 will keep you watching

Son Set

Disorganized crime turns boys into men in Knockaround Guys

Sunny Delight

Developers battle over Florida, and John Sayles gets the last laugh

Salton Crackers

A parade of crazies keeps this Sea afloat

Crocodile Tears

It's hard to feel any sympathy for the aesthetes in The Man Who Cried

Prepare for Landing

The appropriately named Jet Li may prove Americans are finally primed for Far East mayhem

Scotch on the Rocks

Move over Trainspotting, Orphans balances despair with heart

Good Trouble

John Frankenheimer influences a new generation of thrill seekers with Reindeer Games

Independent Means

Night & Day

August 20 - 26, 1998

Night & Day

June 18 - 24, 1998

Frayed Braid

The Odyssey

Everything old is New Wave again in Godard's Contempt

The Once and Future Dolemite

Rudy Ray Moore, the brotherman from another land, is still outta sight

Alison Cook looks back at 1996: Year of the Rat

Talk It Up

Spike Lee works the phone-sex lines, but loses his connection

Ready for Takeoff

Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket is a whimsical delight

Woo? Wow!

John Woo's latest isn't his best, but he still leads the action pack

Dead Bang

Gonzo Western The Quick and the Dead is ludicrously entertaining