Salma Hayek

Flags and Cycles

Savages

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

2012 Summer Guide: Summer Movie Preview

Fast Times: Burger King Garden Fresh Chicken, Apple & Cranberry Salad

Burger King has been advertising a new "Fresh Flavors" campaign -- perhaps you have seen the commercials, featuring late-night host Jay Leno driving into a Burger King in one of his classic cars and ordering from the walk-up counter as if it were a drive-through window. Hilarious! As fellow EOW blo ... More >>

Burger King: The Prince of Ad Campaigns

Burger King recently announced a new ad campaign supporting the chain's "Fresh Offers" menu items. The ads feature celebrity spokespeople ordering off of the new, supposedly fresher and healthier menu. One of the ads featuring Mary J. Blige singing about fried chicken was quickly pulled because so ... More >>

Golden Bozos: Your "Official" Live Blog For The 69th Golden Globes

I know, we're all bummed out the Texans lost. But since you've been drinking anyway, you might as well crack open another one and sit through the one awards show even the People's Choice Awards can look down its nose at. I'll be updating this entry throughout the broadcast, so refresh often and try ... More >>

Pop Rocks: How Do You React To The Proposed Grown Ups Sequel? With Animated Gifs.

​It's a busy time of year for movie critic types. Many of us are butting up against deadlines for award nominations, watching lots of year-end screeners of some pretty memorable films by the likes of Terence Malick, Steve McQueen, and Lynne Ramsay, among others. But everyone needs a palate cl ... More >>

And Now, the Least Anticipated Movies of Fall/Winter 2011

​Pop Rocks will return Thursday. The fall/winter movie season kicked off last weekend as Contagion dominated the box office (the highly touted Warrior, not so much). I've already covered, in some depth, those releases coming up in the remainder of 2011 that might merit a closer look. We learn ... More >>

SPECIAL COMIDA EDITION: Who Harvested Maize First — the Aztecs, or the Mayans?

And what are the three milks of Pastel de Tres Leches?

Cactus Poaching

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 >>

Grown Ups: Win Free Preview Passes, And Revel In Adam Sandler's Five Best Cameos

"Are you too good for your home, ball?"​Grown Ups, as anyone who's watched any of the NBA Finals can yell you, stars Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James and David Spade.That is all you need to know. You will either like this movie, perhaps love it, or you will not go to see it even if by watchin ... More >>

Once Upon a Time in Mexico Feast

If only all hit men were this good looking

SPECIAL TACO BELL EDITION

One Vampire Movie That Really Sucks

Cirque du Freak tries to get in on the trend. Fails.

Mexican Moors?

More likely than you think

OMG SALMA HAYEK BREASTFEEDING WTF!?!

OMG OMG OMG Salma Hayek breast fed a baby in Sierra Leone OMG OMG OMG! Seriously, what is this, the next Yalta Conference? You would think so, given the reaction of the popular and not-so-popular press. Google "Salma Hayek breastfeeding" and you'll get such lovely quotes and comments as "Lucky ba ... More >>

Upcoming Texas Twists on 30 Rock

Regular readers may be aware that Rocks Off has become somewhat obsessed with NBC's 30 Rock lately. Actually, that's not true. He's been obsessed with the show since the first time he saw it - Alec Baldwin is a comedic genius, and oh, that Tina Fey - but its recent tendency to insert plot ... More >>

SPECIAL MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. EDITION

30 Rock Takes Another Little Piece of Port Arthur

One of the only things Rocks Off loves as much as Tom Petty and chicken-fried steak is NBC's brilliant, multiple Emmy-winning 30 Rock, which he thinks is the best TV comedy since The Larry Sanders Show. Now he loves it even more after last night's deliciously twisted episode, "Senor Mach ... More >>

In Honor Of The Defunct Penthouse Club, The Five Best Strip Club Scenes

We at the Houston Press are pretty broken up about the closing of the Penthouse Club. Not because any of us were frequent patrons, of course (*cough*), or because we aren't wholly convinced the City's efforts to shutter "gentlemen's clubs" will eliminate crime as we know it, but because the strip ... More >>

Authentic Cemitas at Puebla Bakery

Cantinflas and Fence Hoppers

ASK A MEXICAN

Jason Friedman’s NFL Picks, Week Four: Salma Hayek, the Green Bay Packers, Anna Kournikova and the Baltimore Ravens

Azul, Magos Herrera and Lila Downs

The Divinas concert

Hold Your Horses

Frida Fiesta

Celebrate art and the unibrow

Dust to Dust

Robert Towne's homage to a struggling writer is something of a struggle itself

Explosive Action

Get a bang for your buck this Fourth of July

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Redemption Thong

Salma's shorts get top billing in an otherwise unwatchable caper

Terry Allen

Juarez (Sugar Hill Records)

Johnny's Show

Depp saves the day in Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Money and Masa

A few words with underground rapper/tamale kingpin Chingo Bling

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Enough's Enough

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

Think Different

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

Year of the Woman

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

Art and Soul

From our innermost insecurities to the wildest flights of fantasy, 2002 stimulated both heart and head

The Year of Living Dangerously

Cinema 2002 counterbalanced a treacherous world

No Free Meals?

Plus: Movie Props, Blame the Magnets, Crossed Out

Queen of Pain

Julie Taymor and Salma Hayek paint a spectacular portrait of Frida Kahlo

War Games

With Traffic, Steven Soderbergh takes an unblinking look at America's drug policies

Figgis's Symphony No. 4

Experimental director borrows musical techniques for the intriguing Time Code

Barely Staying Alive

Rhythm Kings

D.R.U.M. not only wants the right sound, it wants the right spirit

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Matthew Perry goes from a small-screen friend to a big-screen fool

Hot Shots

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