Robert Rodriguez

Thursday Night: Umbrella Man at the Big Top

Hot Time, Summer in the City, Minute Maid Park Sure Is…

A Wish List For Austin's Movie Memorabilia Sale

Playbill

What It Is, What It Was, What It Shall Be

A review of the films of '93, and hopes for an adventurous '94

Our Man Reports From The Sundance Film Festival

Former Houston Press reporter Steve McVicker is reporting from the Sundance Film Festival: Despite the economy being in the crapper, and competition for A-list stars from the Obama inauguration, the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, with its film lovers, business types, and members of the press, has ... More >>

Hot Shots

Desperado hits the bull's-eye with a fusillade of bullets

Four Rooms, All Vacant

Desperado hits the bull's-eye with a fusillade of bullets

Static

Desperado hits the bull's-eye with a fusillade of bullets

Press Picks

Desperado hits the bull's-eye with a fusillade of bullets

On the Lam

This "official" John Woo knockoff is less than dazzling

Conference Kudos and Crud

This "official" John Woo knockoff is less than dazzling

Take Two

A fun documentary follows From Dusk Till Dawn

Grindhouse

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez happily provide viewers with blood, guts and splatter — not to mention a stripper with a machine-gun leg

Fuzz Busters

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez happily provide viewers with blood, guts and splatter — not to mention a stripper with a machine-gun leg

Tito & Tarantula

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez happily provide viewers with blood, guts and splatter — not to mention a stripper with a machine-gun leg

Death Proof

Quentin Tarantino puts a crazy stunt driver into his B-movie homage

Grindhouse

Rodriguez and Tarantino overcome nostalgia in their cut-and-run grindhouse mash note

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Carnal Knowledge

Former Los Skarnales frontman Felipe Galvan resurrects the Pachuca boogie

When He Was Small

Former Los Skarnales frontman Felipe Galvan resurrects the Pachuca boogie

Love the Sin

Former Los Skarnales frontman Felipe Galvan resurrects the Pachuca boogie

Our top DVD picks for the week of November 1

Former Los Skarnales frontman Felipe Galvan resurrects the Pachuca boogie

Dream Child

Robert Rodriguez and his kids conjure up a charming 3-D fantasy

Color Bind

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

What a Ruckus

Monkey around at Theatre Illuminata's cabaret

Return of Los Vatos Rudos

Los Skarnales are set to release a new full-length with a new lineup

Johnny's Show

Depp saves the day in Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Enough's Enough

The Spy Kids go 3-D, but where are Mom and Dad?

Film Buff

The naked truth about why Houston isn’t the third coast

Year of the Woman

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

Island of Bad Sequels

Rodriguez blows his best movie yet

Do the Wrong Thing

Former friends reckon with reality in Linklater's Tape

Wild Child

Action director Robert Rodriguez lets his fantastical mind out to play in Spy Kids

Tangled Web

From Mexico to L.A. via Alaska and El Paso, Tito Larriva has seen it all -- and more

Rotation

From Mexico to L.A. via Alaska and El Paso, Tito Larriva has seen it all -- and more

Bloody Fun

Tarantino meets Rodriguez and, no surprise, all hell breaks loose

HPMA Aftermath: Peekaboo Theory, Sideshow Tramps and the Afterparty at Mosaic

Photos by Nicholas L. Hall​ With all the bright promise of this year's HPMA showcase, it's a damn shame that Aftermath could only make two sets. What we saw both depressed and encouraged us, in that I missed so much and in that there was so much to miss. Peekaboo Theory manages to thrill us every ... More >>

Werewolves Got Fingered: The 5 Worst Movies (Besides Twilight: New Moon) With the Best Soundtracks

​Good news, all you fans of condensed screen versions of self-indulgent Mormon vampire pseudo-erotic clit-tease fantasies: Twilight: New Moon is being released in only eight days. Rocks Off, accustomed to scorn from literary snobs for his steadfast support of the Harry Potter series, actually pick ... More >>

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 >>

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Our Eight Favorite Musical Moments From Texas-Shot Films

​If Chainsaws, Slackers and Spy Kids sounds like a titillating title for a book, it's only because the book itself deals with some of the most provocative indie films in recent cinematic history - many of them made by Texas-born filmmakers. The book is the work of Alison Macor, former film cr ... More >>

Blades of Gory

When it's not LOL-funny, ­Robert Rodriguez's Machete is downright dull.

Machete's Potential Tax Incentives Rile Conservatives

Texas tax breaks for THIS? Tea Party unite!​Machete, the bloody, gory, spoofy film by Robert Rodriguez, has become the latest mini-scandal de jour for conservatives.Why? Because it might get tax breaks from Texas, and it portrays a race war that favors immigrants over right-wing politicians like t ... More >>

J. Hoberman's Top Ten Movies of 2010

Texas tax breaks for THIS? Tea Party unite!​Machete, the bloody, gory, spoofy film by Robert Rodriguez, has become the latest mini-scandal de jour for conservatives.Why? Because it might get tax breaks from Texas, and it portrays a race war that favors immigrants over right-wing politicians like t ... More >>

Texas Independent Film Network

Texas tax breaks for THIS? Tea Party unite!​Machete, the bloody, gory, spoofy film by Robert Rodriguez, has become the latest mini-scandal de jour for conservatives.Why? Because it might get tax breaks from Texas, and it portrays a race war that favors immigrants over right-wing politicians like t ... More >>

Billy Bob Thornton Producing ZZ Top Biopic, Sources Say

Craig HlavatyBillys Gibbons (left) and Bob Thornton at Fitzgerald's, December 2009​How how how how will this not be Rocks Off's favorite movie of all time after it comes out? If the rumors coming out of Hollywood and last month's SXSW conference are true, the story of that Lil' Ol' Band from T ... More >>

Hobo with a Shotgun

Craig HlavatyBillys Gibbons (left) and Bob Thornton at Fitzgerald's, December 2009​How how how how will this not be Rocks Off's favorite movie of all time after it comes out? If the rumors coming out of Hollywood and last month's SXSW conference are true, the story of that Lil' Ol' Band from T ... More >>

True Blood: A Couple Of Things We Missed

Alan Ball was known for his masterful use of music in Six Feet Under. He's lost none of his touch when it comes to his current HBO series,True Blood - which happens to be set in the Louisiana swamps, not terribly far from Houston. ​Listen, Gothtopia makes mistakes... mostly mistakes named Amy ... More >>