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Mr. Saturday Night

Darrell Hammond makes a good impression at the Laff Stop

Balls...Hair Balls: Bond's Five Best Henchmen

Darrell Hammond makes a good impression at the Laff Stop

Area Man On TV Tonight

If you got the TV on tonight, click over to TBS and see a local comedian making an impression on television. Mike MacRae, who got his start at Houston’s Laff Stop, is now a cast member on Frank TV. The weekly sketch show – now in its second season – stars Frank Caliendo (you know, that guy ... More >>

Spy Games

Tom Clancy and Harrison Ford take aim at the War On Drugs

Lost in Africa

Tom Clancy and Harrison Ford take aim at the War On Drugs

The Evil and the Stupid

Reactionary and racist, Just Cause is just too dumb to get worked up about

Lost Knight

Hollywood (and Gere, and Connery) turn Arthurian legend into Arthurian mush

Mission: Irrelevant

Sure, you can upgrade a TV series to the big screen -- but why bother?

Beat the Heat!

1996 Summer Guide

Buddy and the Beast

A pair of unlikely allies trade wisecracks and fight evil. The twist: one's a dragon.

Big Bang Theory

The Rock tests the hypothesis that moviegoers like 'em fast, splashy and loud

Highs and Lows

A needle, a junkie, a heroin habit -- welcome to Great Britain in the '90s

East End Transit

Why have bus lines to Mexico bloomed all across the East End? Maybe because it's a family affair.

007 By the Numbers

Most of Tomorrow Never Dies lacks the wit and inventiveness of the best Bond

Night & Day

June 18 - 24, 1998

Irish Lament

The language and the actors make this melodramatic plot work

Heart Failure

Carroll's impressive cast can't overcome this thin film

Indiana Jones and the Fortress of Sad Decline

Its very own temple of doom, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull digs Indy into a deep hole

Celtic Scots and Hispanic Mexicans

Its very own temple of doom, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull digs Indy into a deep hole

Craig Ferguson

The Late Late Show’s host gets some unscripted practice

Bob Biggerstaff and Mike MacRae

These two top comedians share the stage

Shoot 'Em Up

Shoot 'Em Up proves that its star could have been a killer Bond

“007: The Music of James Bond”

Houston Symphony taps spy songs for its playlist

Divine Vin

Houston Symphony taps spy songs for its playlist

Mail Call

Truckin'

DVDs

Truckin'

Poor Baby

The Alley premieres a comedy no better than a generic pilot for a canceled sitcom

More than Music

Hollywood goes Texan at the South By Southwest Film Festival and Conference

Cage Death Match

National Treasure makes one long for good Nic Cage movies -- like Con Air

Heavy Heaving

The Scots know about throwing games

Year of the Woman

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

Breaking In to the Movies

This sneak preview by a UT film student stole more than the show at Sony Studios

The Mild West

American Outlaws' parallel dimensions diminish Jesse James into a cuddly, goofy bore

Drag King

Actor-comic Eddie Izzard just wants to be loved

We'll All Cry Boo-Hoo

Ron Howard's cuddly new Grinch puzzles our puzzler till our puzzler's puzzled out

Caught in the Act

Connery's charisma flees from the feeble Entrapment

Living With Lies

Cameron and Schwarzenegger take action movies in a new, and interesting, direction

Sean Connery (No, Not That One) Indicted For Child Porn

The US Attorney's office has had a busy morning announcing indictments of people for having child porn on their computers.These guys are twisted, obviously; one can only hope they limited their odd fetish to looking at things on the computer and not anything further.Among the indicted today is one S ... More >>

Farrah Fawcett: Unfortunately, These Movies Will Also Be Remembered

Farrah Fawcett passed away today at the age of 62. Males of a certain generation (those born between 1900 and 1972) will always hold the former Jill Munroe in special esteem for the role she played in hastening their adolescence.There was that poster, for starters, and her short-lived but memorable ... More >>

For St. Patrick's Day: Five Iconic (And Not At All Stereotypical) Irish Characters

It's St. Patrick's Day again, which means everyone not visibly non-white will claim Irish heritage to better justify their criminal alcohol abuse and the Celtics will -- for one day, at least -- be the most celebrated sports franchise in the land. You're probably all well acquainted with how to act ... More >>

Golden Cities Hate All Over The Lion King

Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to sheaserrano@gmail.com. myspace.com/goldencitiesGolden ... More >>

Bob Biggerstaff and Mike MacRae

These two top comedians share the stage

NFL Headhunting -- The Party Is Over

Jack tatum: "The Assassin" would not approve​With many of life's problems, sometimes the issue isn't finding the solution, it's experiencing a trigger event that makes you put the solution into action (and 99 percent of the time, wondering why you hadn't done it a whole lot sooner). Along those l ... More >>

Health Department Roundup

​Either the cold weather has kept health inspectors at home, testing the temperature of their own dishwater to stay on point, or the city has been lazy about updating its online code violation reporting page. The most recent info available is from Feb. 3. (The last Health Department Roundup co ... More >>

League Of Extraordinary G'z Pack Power Of The Closed Fist

Each Wednesday or thereabouts, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com. League of ... More >>

5 Movies That Wouldn't Exist Without George Harrison

halfwayhousemusic.com​After giving the deluxe documentary treatment to Bob Dylan (No Direction Home) and the Rolling Stones (Shine a Light), Martin Scorsese now trains his camera on George Harrison for George Harrison: Living In the Material World, his two-part film about the "Quiet Beatle" th ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Who Else Would Make A Good Bond Villain?

Jeez, when are they going to stop casting ugly actors in these Bond movies?​So it turns out Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Vicky Cristy Barcelona) is going up against 007 in Bond 23: After months of speculation about who would play the villain in the next James Bond installment, we fi ... More >>