Steve Buscemi

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Burt Wonderstone vanishes what Steve Carell's best at.

Defending Tarantino

What critics who attack the director's borrowings miss.

Hotel Transylvania

A comic Dracula still kills.

More Than Just Nolan Ryan

5 food-related reasons to drive to Alvin.

Wine Lost and Found in Translation with Sean Beck

"The sommelier is there to 'translate' the wine" for the patron, says sommelier Sean Beck. Beck runs one of the city's most respected wine programs at Backstreet Café. "You're there to make the guests feel confident about their choice" of wine, he explains. In a city like petrochemical-based Houst ... 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 >>

10 More Sh*t People Say Videos and Then We're Done

We will happily admit that when we were told by 30 of our Facebook friends that we just "had to watch" the Sh*t Girls Say Youtube sensation, we were completely amused. We cannot count the number of times in a week that we start a sentence with, "First of all, ewww" on one hand, nor how often we are ... More >>

A Musical History Of The Color Green

​It's St. Patrick's Day, and as many of you have discovered, it is the only day out of the year when our normally free and enlightened society requires you to wear a certain color lest sudden and shocking violence be inflicted upon you. Every year on March 17, pinch-related emergency room visi ... More >>

Edgar Allan Poe, Still Wicked After All These Years

​Today we celebrate the birthday of one Edgar Allan Poe, a man whose influence on music simply cannot be overstated. In fact, Rocks Off is going to go on record and say that Poe's writings have influenced more music than any other written work except the Bible, and when you're second place to ... More >>

Houston Texans Turn The Corner -- 5 Winners, 5 Losers

Neil Rackers -- He's no Kris Brown​I shouldn't enjoy carnage as much as I do, but I have to admit that a few hours after Neil Rackers' 35-yard field goal sailed through the uprights, sending the Houston Texans to an improbable 30-27 overtime win over the Washington Redskins yesterday afternoon, My ... More >>

No Lady Gaga: Celebrities We Wish Had Sex Dolls Made Of Them

He's no Johnny Depp​Yesterday on the Rocks Off blog we unveiled the Lady Gaga sex doll, Lady Gag Gag. Comments were mixed on the doll, ranging from utter confusion and strange attraction from both sexes. One commenter claimed that the model on the box was even more attractive than the real G ... More >>

The Week In TV: Boardwalk Empire And Bravo, Two Ends Of A Spectrum

This guy has to be stopped.​The Cup is upon us, the spring season is definitely behind us, and I'm warning you: Don't tease the panther. This was the week in TV Land: • So, the World Cup started the other day. I was with friends at a Mexican restaurant when the USA-England game began, whic ... More >>

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Young Republikans

Midtown's Republika has all the hedonism clubbers of all colors could possibly ask for.

Reservoir Dogs

Quentin Tarantino's debut film features the colors of crime

Revolting Youth

Cult novel must continue its search for a worthy film adaptation.

Graveside Songs for Edgar Allan Poe's Long-Overdue Funeral

​Kicking the bucket at the age of 40 is bad enough, especially when, to this day, nobody's really sure how you died (everything from syphillis to rabies to political "cooping" has been thrown out there as a possible cause). But getting buried in an unmarked grave after a three minute "service" is ... More >>

Fish Out of (Frozen) Water in New in Town

Renee Zellweger as the anti-Norma Rae

Best Films of 2008

Looking back at Che, The Dark Knight, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-E and many others, and looking ahead to 2009

Reservoir Dogs

Quentin Tarantino was already at the top of his game with his debut film

Miss Pop Rocks Has the Flu

The Big Lebowski

The hero of this Coen Brothers cult classic is an icon to burnt-out Gen Y-ers

The Bourne Ultimatum, December Boys, Interview, Undead or Alive

Stardust

Matthew Vaughn hacks at Neil Gaiman's fantasy wonderland

Interview

In Steve Buscemi's latest, the journalist-star sit-down is an interview between vampires

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

Two straight guys pretend to be gay and turn out to be humanists in Chuck & Larry

Get Inside. It's Summertime!

Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

Unreal Estate

Cartoon kids poke around Spielberg's Monster House

Misery Train

Beautifully moody, Lonesome Jim is just what you'd expect from Steve Buscemi

Send In the Clones

Michael Bay's up to his old tricks -- now older than ever

A Good Buzz

Jim Jarmusch serves the perfect blend: Coffee and Cigarettes

Moral Minority

Tim Blake Nelson's uneven holocaust drama exposes an ethical Grey Zone

Photo Opportunity

Mark Romanek makes a great bad man of Robin

Island of Bad Sequels

Rodriguez blows his best movie yet

Dirty Deeds

Someone oughta put a Capra in Sandler's ass

Ouch!

E.T. returns to heal our cynical hearts

Beat the Parents

Travolta's performance can't overcome the horror of this evil-stepfather cliché

Boo Who?

Monsters, Inc. opens the door to a world so good it's scary

Drug Rehab: The Comedy

Alcoholism undergoes the Sandra Bullock treatment in 28 Days

All Climax

Feeling is forgotten in hard-sell Armageddon

User-Friendly Farce

Mr. Jealousy hits the mark for director Baumbach

Coens Go to Pot

Hit and Myth

Hercules fritters away its strengths

Air Disaster

Bruckheimer's production shows all his Con-temptible traits

No Escape

Murder, She Said

Fargo gives us comedy, killing -- and an eight-month pregnant detective

Hot Shots

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

Unkind Cuts

Soul Music

Blue Window plays dialogue like a gorgeous, and sad, melody

American Potluck

At WorldFest, variety doesn't always prove spicy