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Stanley Kubrick

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    10 Movie Songs We Can't Hear Without Thinking Of Sex

    While we at Rocks Off boast many obsessions and vices (we'll call them "hobbies"), a few choice ones unashamedly top our list. If you perverted pop-culture junkies agree that sex, music, and movies are among life's simplest and most necessary pleasures, then keep reading. If you still blush during s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    6 Musicians Who Messed With Texas

    Today, March 2, is Texas Independence Day, the day a bunch of old white politicians and landowners declared this part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas to be its own sovereign republic in a cabin near Washington-on-the-Brazos. For some inexplicable reason, Rocks Off does not have the day off ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    15 Inferior Best Picture Oscar Winners (And the Enduring Classics They Beat)

    Last Wednesday, Craiggers hit on some forgotten Best Picture Academy Award winners, films which have slipped through the cracks of society's consciousness for one reason or another; either for being too of-the-moment, not having enough quotable lines, or for simply not having held up very well -- hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    App of the Week: Pandora vs. iHeartRadio

    If you haven't been paying attention, a very tiny little war has been brewing over access to the ears of people who like to listen to radio online or on their smart phones. I say it's a tiny war because, at the moment, it is. While many of us who love music and like to listen to it a lot will do wha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2010

    Top Ten Celebrities This Decade Who Crashed and Burned with Video Evidence

    And a partridge in a pear tree...​Last week, we gave you our list of celebrities who manage to save their careers after difficult times. This week, we go a different direction. If we have learned anything from TMZ, it's that people love celebrity scandals and the more salacious it is, the more ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 23, 2010

    The Shining Feast

    Would you like that well, medium or bloody?

  • Calendar

    September 9, 2010

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    Dave, what are you doing?

  • Calendar

    May 13, 2010

    A Clockwork Orange

    Extreme violence marks this film classic by Stanley Kubrick

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    G.I. Blues: A Soldiers' Playlist

    ​Today is the anniversary of one of the truly momentous occasions in popular music: On March 23, 1958, Elvis Presley reported for induction into the U.S. Army, thus opening up a thousand alternate timelines for musical historians to formulate "What if he hadn't?" scenarios. For the next few years, ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 4, 2010

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Un ballo in maschera, A Picasso, Thunder Rock

    ​Today is the anniversary of one of the truly momentous occasions in popular music: On March 23, 1958, Elvis Presley reported for induction into the U.S. Army, thus opening up a thousand alternate timelines for musical historians to formulate "What if he hadn't?" scenarios. For the next few years, ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 28, 2010

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Rent, Thunder Rock

    ​Today is the anniversary of one of the truly momentous occasions in popular music: On March 23, 1958, Elvis Presley reported for induction into the U.S. Army, thus opening up a thousand alternate timelines for musical historians to formulate "What if he hadn't?" scenarios. For the next few years, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 26, 2009

    Cosmic Celluloid: 2001: A Space Odyssey

    One small step for computer-kind, one hell of a mess for man

  • Culture

    October 8, 2009

    SPECIAL WEDDING EDITION

    One small step for computer-kind, one hell of a mess for man

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    Heeeeeeeeeeeeere's Johnny!: Rocks Off Presents The Shining Tonight at the Mink

    At tonight's Mink Movie Night, Rocks Off presents what is arguably the greatest psychological horror film ever made, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. The film opens our month of Halloween-inflected movies, with the next two selections in the series being The Exorcist and the original Jamie Lee Curtis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2008

    First Names For SXSW Film Fest Are Out

    At tonight's Mink Movie Night, Rocks Off presents what is arguably the greatest psychological horror film ever made, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. The film opens our month of Halloween-inflected movies, with the next two selections in the series being The Exorcist and the original Jamie Lee Curtis ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 28, 2008

    The Killing

    It’s classic Kubrick in this heist film

  • Film

    March 13, 2008

    The Funny Games People Play

    Michael Haneke and his brutal home invaders return to implicate you, again

  • Home Entertainment

    October 25, 2007

    Directors Series: Stanley Kubrick, American Gangster, Mr. Brooks, Days of Heaven

    Michael Haneke and his brutal home invaders return to implicate you, again

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2007

    Retro Active: A Nuclear Era, But I Have No Fear

    Michael Haneke and his brutal home invaders return to implicate you, again

  • Film

    September 20, 2007

    In the Shadow of the Moon

    Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

  • Home Entertainment

    April 19, 2007

    What Garry Didn't Know

    Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

  • Home Entertainment

    March 29, 2007

    DVDs

    Tomorrow's Misery Today

  • Film

    March 23, 2006

    It's a Crime

    Spike Lee's Inside Man plots the heist of your moviegoing dollars

  • Film

    November 10, 2005

    Last Laugh

    Paradise Now finds humor in the mission of suicide bombers

  • Calendar

    December 23, 2004

    Couple's Pad

    A local art-school duo sticks it to a new art space

  • Culture

    April 29, 2004

    Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    April 22, 2004

    Garden of Good and Evil

    Rachel Carson's environmental quest gets surreal at Main Street Theater

  • Calendar

    April 1, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Rachel Carson's environmental quest gets surreal at Main Street Theater

  • Calendar

    November 6, 2003

    Live Through This

    Where were you when Kennedy was shot? Nellie Connally was in the car with him

  • Culture

    December 12, 2002

    End of the Road

    Trio is the network where great shows go to die, and so much more

  • Film

    June 20, 2002

    Report Card

    Spielberg's Minority Report gets good grades until the end

  • Film

    June 28, 2001

    E.T. the Extra-Tutorial

    Kubrick seems to guide Spielberg's hand in the ponderous A.I.

  • Culture

    June 21, 2001

    Cumming Up

    Is he a writer, director, actor or...sex symbol? Um, yes--and more

  • Culture

    February 8, 2001

    Back to the Future

    Robert Wise finishes Star Trek: The Motion Picture--22 years later

  • Film

    January 11, 2001

    Foregone Conclusion

    Even those who don't remember the Cuban missile crisis will know how it ends, long before Days does

  • Music

    September 21, 2000

    Important Imports

    The U.K.'s Travis is big in Europe really

  • Culture

    August 24, 2000

    The Bit Player

    Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

  • Film

    June 8, 2000

    Sexual Healing?

    Peter Greenaway's latest erotic treatise zestfully crosses boundaries both cultural and intimate

  • Film

    April 27, 2000

    Seek Bomb Shelter

    Director Rod Lurie's nuclear debate blows up in his face

  • Music

    November 4, 1999

    Sonic Portraits

    Momus renders average folk in song and tours

  • Film

    August 5, 1999

    Iron Beauty

    A cartoon boy and a big metallic man carry a message of peace

  • Film

    July 15, 1999

    Sad Finale

    Eyes Wide Shut comes up short as Kubrick's last effort

  • Music

    January 28, 1999

    Stressing Strauss

    Da Camera examines the 20th-Century Enigma composer

  • Film

    October 8, 1998

    Affairs of the Tart

    Lolita's classy, but where's the comedy and character?

  • Film

    June 18, 1998

    X-Filer Fun

    Plot holes aside, Scully and Mulder once again manage to entertain

  • Film

    April 23, 1998

    Money Changes Everything

    In The Spanish Prisoner, even David Mamet's dialogue falls flat

  • Calendar

    August 15, 1996

    Press Picks

    In The Spanish Prisoner, even David Mamet's dialogue falls flat

  • Film

    January 11, 1996

    Moving History

    In The Spanish Prisoner, even David Mamet's dialogue falls flat

  • Culture

    January 26, 1995

    Moon Shots

    At the MFA, lunar imagery blurs the line between science and art

  • Film

    September 1, 1994

    Media Mad

    Combine TV, killing and crowds, and what do you have? Oliver Stone

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