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10 Movies to Watch in 2013

In theaters, on demand or wherever.

Some Nouns, Some Verbs and 9/11

Bald eagles will weep for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

Pop Rocks: Landing A Man, Millionaire Matchmaker Style

Because if a single 50-year-old can't get you into a relationship, who can?​Didn't Bravo start its life as something other than the place where the most embarrassing specimens of mankind wash up on our channel listing like so many Cuban refugees? I vaguely recall there being performing arts an ... More >>

Pop Rocks: For This Comic Book Summer, Five Superheroes Who Won't Be Getting Their Own Movies

Dream on, fish boy.​We're well into summer blockbuster season, and even if you couldn't tell by the sweltering temperatures outside, you'd only need to look at the number of superhero movies -- both in theaters and about to be released -- to realize it. Thor started us off in May, and X-Men: ... More >>

Tony Arata: The Dirt On "The Dance" And Four Other Hits

​This weekend, Conroe's Crighton Theater hosts another big-time writers in the round song-swap with Lee Roy Parnell, Tony Arata and J.D. Souther. Looking at their songwriting credits, which include "Love Without Mercy," "We All Get Lucky Sometimes," "On the Road," "Best of My Love," "New Kid i ... More >>

Bob Schneider's Five Favorite Albums Of All Time

Jeff Swensen/ Bob Schneider on Facebook​It's been said that if you have lived in Texas for at least a decade and you haven't at least been in the vicinity of a Bob Schneider show, you are probably lying. Our introduction to Schneider was kind of heartbreaking, but that's another story for anot ... More >>

Tubby Chubcakes' Lyrics Will Melt Your Brain

Tubby Chubcakes: The great beef hunter strikes again.​Rocks Off was going to write a review of the new Tubby Chubcakes album, Tubby vs. The Musical Brain-Eating Disease, but honestly it's kind of like trying to explain Scientology to a blind water snake. Remember Tubby's video "Destroy Nickel ... More >>

Five Celebrity Costumes To Avoid At All Costs

This one is, uhhh... not on the list.​Halloween: The one night grown men and women have a legitimate excuse to look like clowns. Call us crazy, but we stopped dressing up for Halloween at 13. We still love you and your ridiculous costume. We really do. That's why we've taken the time to offer ... More >>

Rice Owls Blind Sided By The Mustangs

Not Even Sandra Bullock Could Have Saved The Owls This Time​Before the season began, the Rice Owls were confident that they would get the six wins needed to qualify for a bowl game. Five games into the season, with the Owls record at 1-4, the question isn't so much whether the Owls will get ... More >>

Commiserating The Lakers Win With Five Predictions About Bun's Forthcoming LP, Trill OG

​Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and, albeit sometimes awkwardly, tie it to a bit of Houston rap. We'll incorporate the number five in there somewhere. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Ack. The Lakers won the NBA Championship las ... More >>

Houston: Proud Hotspot For Staging Car Accidents For The Insurance

The NICS' how-to-crash video does not star Sandra Bullock​Desperate times call for desperate measures. The Great Recession has forced millions out of jobs, and forced millions more to drastically slash expenses; we hear the top execs at Goldman Sachs recently told their chauffeurs to fill their pe ... More >>

Speedy Gonzales Rides Again?

Pop Rocks: Men Are Pigs, Film At 11

With apologies to Warren Zevon: Keep on riding, riding, ridingTiger and Jesse JamesKeep on riding, riding, ridingAll those tattooed dames 2010 is already proving to be a banner year in celebrity implosion. The continuing saga of serial philanderer Tiger Woods was good enough, but then the news bro ... More >>

New On DVD: The Blind Side And Oh-So-Classic James Brown

​Well, everyone survived the frenzy of last Friday's release of The Twilight Saga: New Moon pretty much unscathed (the second installment of the Twilight series earned a cool $295.6 million at the box office and will no doubt earn another huge heap of money of DVD sales).If you're still in the moo ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Quick Hits

​We're going to mix it up a bit on Pop Rocks today. Usually, I stick with one subject for the entire piece because I'd rather not depend too heavily on snarky line-item entries. But let's face it; sometimes there's just too much going on in the world of pop culture for me to focus on just one top ... More >>

The Week In TV: We're With Coco

​The weekend's gone, the sun is out, and the only marathon I did this weekend consisted of Whataburger taquitos. This was the week in TV Land: • So! Conan and Jay are probably not going to make buddy comedies together any time soon, or ever. The growing animosity between the two -- mainly ... More >>

No Luck Among the Irish

Amy Adams is trapped in the land of blarney, cow pies and forced humiliation.

Jail, Coffee, Drunk Driving and Insidious Racism?

Houston Press readers weigh in.

Was Blind But Now I See

What would black people do without big-hearted white people?

Pop Rocks: New Blood For Hollywood. Please

​I used to review movies (over here, if you care), an endeavor I had to quit for a variety of reasons: my hectic neurosurgery rotation, for one, as well as the increasing physical demands of the new Mrs. Vonder Haar, Carla Gugino. But among the non-imaginary factors influencing my decision was the ... More >>

Love Hurts

And that pain will last (500) Days, but in a good way.

Victim of Circumstance

The Proposal merges in the memory with a thousand other films just like it until it loses all identity of its own.

For Valentine's Day: The Five Worst Romantic Comedies

With Valentine's Day approaching, tbe best most of you poor single bastards can hope for is to get through the night with your bank account relatively intact. Married folks are better off, as all they're really expected to come up with is a perfunctory gift and maybe an evening spent watching a drea ... More >>

How Depressed Do You Have to be to Want To See Nights in Rodanthe?

Enchanted

Fairy-tale land and the real world collide to no good end in Enchanted

Bob Schneider

Bob Schneider performs Friday, May 11, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-225-5483. Skyblue72 and Stillife also perform.

Premonition

Be forewarned: Time-warped Sandra Bullock flick not as bad as you think

Houston Chopper

Meet Roman Blum, the next TV biker star

Repeat Offender

A second, slimmer Capote movie fails to improve on its predecessor

Hope Floats

The Lake House reunites Bullock and Reeves in a twilight-zone romance

We're No Angels

In Paul Haggis's Los Angeles, good and evil Crash into each other

Ugly Duckling

Sandra Bullock fires off another Miss

"Delinquent" Behavior

A gang of back-alley artists shares its love of squalor

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The Spirit of the Scabs

Houstonians the Handsomes get the booties shaking Austin-style

Mama's Ya-Ya's

Divine Secrets delves into mother-daughter issues with a Southern twist

Blood Simple

Murder by Numbers yields less than the sum of its parts

Eager to Please

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

Drug Rehab: The Comedy

Alcoholism undergoes the Sandra Bullock treatment in 28 Days

Tame Old Story

Forces of Nature walks on the mild side of classics

Barney! Biz! Bluebonnets!

And other signs that Texas Monthly's brain trust doesn't have a neuron left

Teen Scheme

A weird wager doesn't make She's All That a good bet

Dish

Irony Deficient

Hope Floats stays shallow

That Sinking Feeling

Speed 2 runs aground before the ship starts its engine

Black, White and a Few Shades of Gray

A Time to Kill does John Grisham proud

Sound Check

On the Fast Track

Speed proves there's still life in the old car chase

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway