Renee Zellweger

Last Night: Kenny Chesney at Reliant Stadium

Kenny Chesney Reliant Stadium March 12, 2013 My heart was stolen by a cowboy last night, and I don't want it back. I, along with nearly 70,000 other spectators, rolled into Reliant Stadium for yet another RodeoHouston concert -- only this time it was Kenny Chesney. It was great to be at a show th ... More >>

Melissa McCarthy Is Not Your Best Friend Anymore

Old Photos Mashed with Modern Houston, Volume 5: Baytown

Welcome to the fifth installment of vintage photos mashed with its present-day locations. This time we leave our comfortable city of Houston, cross the Fred Hartman Bridge and venture into Baytown, Texas. Baytown was originally three separate towns: Goose Creek, Pelly and East Baytown. The three tow ... More >>

How Tom DeLay's Lawyer Learned To Love Mini-Satan As He Prepares For Wednesday's Hearing

Tom DeLay, the man who once easily held the title Most Hated Republican in his clawed hands, will finally have his hearing over campaign-finance money-laundering charges Wednesday before a three-judge panel in Austin. It's been a long road for the former congressman from Sugar Land -- some of the i ... More >>

The Revival of the Silent Film and 7 Movies We Would Like to See Without Words

In a big step forward, or step back, however you would like to think about it, the silent film The Artist was just named the best film by the New York Film Critics Circle. This comes on the heels of the stunning response it has already received from the festival circuit, including a best actor award ... More >>

So Kenny Chesney Is Playing Discovery Green After All

Kenny Chesney models what will now be known as "The CultureMap Smirk."​Looks like CultureMap - and their "anonymous" sources - had it right. Way to go, guys. After the Houston digital daily broke the story (to Rocks Off's extreme skepticism), The NCAA, Turner Sports and CBS announced later Th ... More >>

Devo And The 16 Other Best Bands In Uniform

Mark C. Austin​Devo hits Warehouse Live on March 25, the band's first Houston date since a 2006 appearance with the Psychedelic Furs - who, coincidentally enough, are also coming to Warehouse (April 23) to do all of 1981's Talk Talk Talk ("Pretty In Pink," "Into You Like a Train"), plus "Love ... 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 >>

Kenny Chesney's Real Life Lessons For The Boys Of Fall

​Rocks Off found out last week that country singer Kenny Chesney is offering free DVD copies of his high school football documentary The Boys of Fall to any schools or coaches who might be interested. If you want to buy it, it's only available at Walmart. From the email: In the documentary, C ... More >>

In Honor Of Will Ferrell: The Five Biggest "Summer Blockbuster" Duds

That thud you heard last weekend was Will Ferrell's career settling noisily back to earth. With a budget estimated at over $100 million, Land of the Lost was supposed to propagate the 2009 summer blockbuster season (handily inaugurated by the new Star Trek) and continue Ferrell's successful box-offi ... More >>

Fish Out of (Frozen) Water in New in Town

Renee Zellweger as the anti-Norma Rae

Old West: Appaloosa

Ed Harris goes traditional

When’s George Clooney Going to Go into Therapy?

Fourth and Inches: Leatherheads

George Clooney's ode to screwball comedies of yore is sooooo close. But yet.

Marilyn Manson's celebrity dating club

Mechanical Animals

Bee Movie

No wonder all the bees are dying — Seinfeld's movie is embarrassing

Miss Congeniality

Beatrix Potter gets an extreme makeover

Jamie Cullum

Monday, May 15, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-629-3700

Getting Personal

Nouveau punk rockeros need love, too

It's Been Reel

John Pierson brings film culture to Fiji

Broke, But Not Broken

With Cinderella Man, Ron Howard finally scores a knockout

Excess Hollywood

In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise.

The Edge of Treason

Bridget Jones is betrayed by a dumb, dull sequel

Floundering

Cruel, vapid and unfunny, this Shark bites

A Mountainous Achievement

Cold Mountain sets the new standard for Civil War drama on-screen

Funny Guy

Neil Hamburger is so bad, he's good

Think Different

Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies requires a brain cell or two?

The Art Is a Lonely Hunter

A retro Down with Love is suckin' in the '60s

When He Was Cruel

Neil LaBute tries to be nice but comes off very savage

Tango and Cash

Chicago dances its way through the origins of the celebrity crook

Old Masters and Young Guns

Filmmaking in 2002 wasn't just for the boys

Foster Pussycat

White Oleander is blond but ambitionless

That '70s Movie

Moonlight Mile wastes its setting and its star

Oscar-Worthy

Superb performances distinguish a new adaptation of Wilde's Earnest

Diary of a Madwoman

Not even Renée Zellweger can make us Jones for this sarcastic romance

Eager to Please

Intended as irony, the title of Miss Congeniality really says it all

Better in Pairs

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

Best Swells of Houstonian Pride

Shannon Elizabeth

A Fan's Notes

After Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe comes of age...finally

State of the Union

Nurse Betty explores our national ennui and insanity through the fantasies of its lead characters

Houston Press Music Awards 2000

Your guide to the Music Awards Showcase

Dr. Jekyll and Jim Carrey

The freewheeling comedic actor has double the fun in Me, Myself & Irene

Family-Style Friction

Strife stirs relatives in the sentimental One True Thing

Heroine Overdose

The Governess looks good but turns unlikable

Oys and Girls

Renee Zellweger as an Orthodox Jew? A Price Above Rubies proves the actress's worth.

Time to Kill

Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellweger take a Chainsaw to their careers

Letters

Pulp Friction

Can the creator of Conan the Barbarian fall in love?

Catch Her in the Rye

In the delightful Chasing Amy, there's more to sex than love

Cruisified