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Capra Corn

The Majestic has the sap but not the magic of the master

Five Types Of Horror Movies That Suck

The Majestic has the sap but not the magic of the master

Sodomy and Sentiment

The Majestic has the sap but not the magic of the master

Press Picks

The Majestic has the sap but not the magic of the master

Press Picks

The Majestic has the sap but not the magic of the master

To Hell and Back

Image is all (but not enough) in the supernatural thriller Hideaway

A Dog's Life

Kathy Bates makes an art of being a bitch in Dolores Claiborne

Bad Seeds

Kathy Bates makes an art of being a bitch in Dolores Claiborne

Press Picks

Kathy Bates makes an art of being a bitch in Dolores Claiborne

Top Fright

Kathy Bates makes an art of being a bitch in Dolores Claiborne

State-of-the-Art Ghouls

White Zombie holds its own with the metal-heads and the punks alike

Press Picks

White Zombie holds its own with the metal-heads and the punks alike

Best Theater the Size of a Postage Stamp

The Little Room Downstairs Theater

Stand by Me

Domy screens a classic tale about boys, summer and (gulp) leeches

The Year In Film

Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

The Mist

Latest Stephen King adaptation all fogged up

Silver Screams Film Festival

Get your frightful fill of horror flicks

Caligula: Imperial Edition, The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, 1408: Collector's Edition and Mystics in Bali

Get your frightful fill of horror flicks

1408

Who woulda thunk it: 1408 is a terrifying, touching Stephen King adaptation

Special Year-End Edición

Who woulda thunk it: 1408 is a terrifying, touching Stephen King adaptation

Our top DVD picks for the week of September 26:

Who woulda thunk it: 1408 is a terrifying, touching Stephen King adaptation

Our top DVD picks for the week of August 29

Who woulda thunk it: 1408 is a terrifying, touching Stephen King adaptation

All Wet

M. Night Shyamalan steps up the lunacy with Lady in the Water

Murder, He Wrote

The Alley Theatre sets a Deathtrap

POD People

A new publishing method attracts first-time authors. Will it do the same for readers?

Did She or Didn't She?

The Alley opens Summer Chills with a play that will keep you guessing till the very end

The Dollhouse Is Burning

Storytelling ups the ante on Solondz's bluster of sex, rage and insanity

Two Hearts Beat as One

A boy and his mysterious surrogate father search for security in Atlantis

Mass (Murder) Media

The satirical Series 7 exposes the black heart of reality TV

Hitting Below the Belt

Karyn Kusama's Girlfight looks to assume power by emasculating men

E.T. on Death Row

Director Frank Darabont gets metaphysical in The Green Mile

Gore Tex

Director Frank Darabont gets metaphysical in The Green Mile

Worried About Swine Flu: Here Are Five Virus Movies To Feed Your Fears

Got flu? Hopefully not, and hopefully all this talk of pandemics and Madagascar closing its borders are just media hysteria. Still, there's nothing wrong with a little self-imposed isolation for you and the family, so here are some timely cinematic selections for you to watch in between hand-washin ... More >>

The Best ZZ Top Videos (We Could Find Online)

Not one but two gentlemen with long beards may be sneaking down your chimney today. They will leave memorabilia such as guitar picks and signed drumsticks, and if you've been a good boy or girl all year, may even give you a free guitar lesson. Instead of milk and cookies we're told they prefer Lone ... More >>

Tonight: Rocks Off Presents Stand By Me at the Mink - Free Hot Dogs!

Tonight at the Mink, Rocks Off presents Rob Reiner's 1986 coming-of-age classic Stand By Me, complete with free hot dogs from hot indie restaurant darlings Ray's Franks.​Adapted from Stephen King's Different Seasons novella "The Body," the film traces the journey of four friends searching for the ... More >>

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 >>

This Week In TV: Oprah to Resign in 2011, World to End Shortly Thereafter

Tom Cruise is not taking the news well...​The sun's back out, I'm ready for turkey, and I can't believe I sold my DeLorean to Mr. T. This was the week in TV Land: • So, Oprah resigned, but not really, or something. Just to make sure we all have time to prepare our families for the ritualist ... More >>

Creepy, Inappropriate and Otherwise Weird Christmas Albums

​ Christmas is 22 days away, so you still have time to put in some online orders for delivery. And, coincidentally enough, we're going to bet that whatever holiday album you've been playing for the past few years is starting to get a little stale. You can only enjoy the velvet crooning of Bing Cro ... More >>

Author Steve Berry: An Evening of Thrills Tonight At The Houston Museum Of Natural Science

Photo by Kelly Campbell​It's been a good year for author Steve Berry. His new release The Paris Vendetta debuted at Number 9 on The New York Times bestseller list (no little feat since the list was already filled with heavy hitters like John Grisham, Michael Crichton, Stephen King and Sue Grafton) ... More >>

The Week In TV: The Walking Dead (The New Series, Not Charlie Sheen)

​I'm slightly sunburned, spoiled by three-day weekends, and trying to figure out whether I want an iPad. This was the week in TV Land: • So, the iPad came out, as you have heard about from every news outlet imaginable, and several TV apps have already been announced. Yahoo's entertainment ... More >>

Dark Tower

Shooter Jennings enlists the occult and Stephen King on ­ambitious, eerie new album Black Ribbons.

Justin Cronin: The Passage

This Houston author hit paydirt with a story about death row inmates turned into vamps

Bono, Gaga And ZZ Top Write Like Raymond Chandler? Who Knew?

​Ask anyone who really knows Rocks Off, and they'll probably tell you we can be a little slow on the uptake sometimes. We proved this once again earlier this week, when we updated our Facebook status with a plea for someone to explain to us what in tarnation a "meme" is. We should have waited ... More >>

Amy Tan

The Chinese-American author muses on her continuing stories

Upcoming Events

Get cheesy at Urban Harvest on April 30.​If all goes to plan, the "Battle of the Heights" Pie-Eating Contest this Saturday at Pie in the Sky (632 West 19th) will look nothing like Stephen King's Great Tri-County Pie Eat. But wouldn't you rather go watch just in case? Four of the Heights' "civi ... More >>

Top 5 Musician Novelists

Ted Barron/New West RecordsSteve Earle: What's up, Doc?​Despite what our paychecks and sometimes even our diplomas say, the perception persists that music journalists are not "real" journalists. Similarly, no matter how literate their lyrics, some folks think musicians could not possibly put p ... More >>

Ryan Seacrest Begets a Music Festival... And The Apocalypse

Mason Lankford said, "There will come a day when we forget the Rapture ever even happened," but Rocks Off is keeping an eye out for signs of our impending Armageddon. We were wrong last time, but we're totally right this time! Jyle Dupuis​Ryan Seacrest is a towering figure in the entertainmen ... More >>