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Top 10 Disney EDM Lookalikes

We all wonder who our celebrity lookalike is. Someone will tell us we look like this person, a Web site will say you look like another and most likely if you're anything like me you'll disagree and give explanations as to why. Well, what if you're already a celebrity? Or DJ? Today DJs are setting ... More >>

Stunt-Casting A More Modern Disney Soundtrack

Photo by Katie Rommel-Esham​The other night I watched Beauty and the Beast for the first time in roughly forever. I was shocked by two things: How much of the plot I had forgotten, and how many of the songs I remembered. It's like that for most Disney classics: I can't tell you what happened but I ... More >>

Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Beauty And The Beast 3D

Title: Beauty and the Beast 3D Hey, This Movie's 20 Years Old, What Gives? It's 3D, nimrod. That's, like...a whole new movie. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: Four-and-a-half Gaston chins out of five. Brief Plot Synopsis: A New York cosmetologist mistakenly thought to be a scie ... More >>

4 Songs About the Frozen Head of Walt Disney

ZliKiSm​45 years ago one of the men who shaped the world in his image forever passed on. Walt Disney, innovator, animator, and imaginer, lost the battle with lung cancer. Disney left behind him a legacy of theme parks, cartoons, musicals, technological marvels and an institution of family ente ... More >>

Pop Rocks: How Does The Lion King Stand Up Among Recent Disney Releases?

Hail to the king...of the box office.​Box office analysts were a bit puzzled by the haul taken in by The Lion King 3D last weekend. The 1994 film was given the three-dimensional treatment and released to the tune of almost $30 million, beating both Contagion and fellow openers Drive ($11 milli ... More >>

Disney Cruises Coming to Galveston (Instead of Bayport)

M-I-C -- See you real soon....​Good news if you're the type of person who enjoys a Disney cruise, and may God have mercy on your tortured soul if you do: Galveston is one of the new ports of call. Disney announced today that beginning in September 2012, a dozen seven-night cruises each year w ... More >>

Raising Goth Kids In Today's Disney Society

​Gothtopia is currently sitting on an advance copy of the Girls Rock Camp Houston DVD, which was filmed at Walter's and showcased several bands of young girls performing their original compositions. We are currently waiting for a firm release date on the disc before bringing you our take on it ... More >>

It's Coming from Inside the Computer

Blissing out on the 3-D, CGI'd, totally incomprehensible head trip of Tron: Legacy.

Rapunzel Takes a Haircut

Disney's latest looks and feels great, so why is the studio selling Tangled short?

Loko Oh No

Testing the new fad drink

Top Five Teen-Idol Rehab Alumni

​Checking into rehab is no laughing matter. That said, we at Rocks Off often find inspiration in even the darkest of corners. So when it was announced, much to our surprise, that Dallas-born teen pop starlet Demi Lovato had checked into rehab an inpatient treatment center, we pondered celebri ... More >>

Four Loko: We Investigate Just How Bad It Is (UPDATED With Morning-After Reflections)

Science!!!!​The latest bit of juvenile delinquency that has the authorities up in arms is Four Loko, a powerful caffeinated beer that's sending kids to hospitals.The "powerful" part -- 12 percent alcohol in a 24-ounce can -- gets you wasted, and the "caffeinated" part keeps you up instead of passi ... More >>

When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong: Pop Princess Edition

MB Pictures/ Rex Features​Dave Chapelle teaches us that the art of "keeping it real" may sometimes go awry. According to urbandictionary.com, this occurs when "in the act of keeping it real, the outcome is unexpected and usually has a negative effect on the individual who decided to keep it re ... More >>

Local Man, For Some Reason, Wants World To Know That The Idea For Beverly Hills Chihuahua Was His

​If you ask Houstonian Zenon Yracheta, he'll tell you that he's the one to blame for that, shall we say, underwhelming, Hollywood movie about a Chihuahua in Beverly Hills, aptly titled, Beverly Hills Chihuahua.And to take a swing at proving it, he's filed a lawsuit in Houston federal court against ... More >>

100 Years of Magic

Mickey Mouse pulls out all the stops as Disney celebrates a century of family fun

Mexicans in the Movies

Disney’s Aladdin: Dual Language Edition

Web exclusive!

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast — The Broadway Musical

Web exclusive!

Playhouse Disney Live

Web exclusive!

Capsule Stage Reviews: Beauty and the Beast, A Fertle Holiday, The Nutcracker, Sunshine Boys

Leashed Lightning in Bolt

Disney's latest toon is a starry dog story

Disney on Ice-Disneyland Adventure

Web exclusive

Playhouse Disney Live

Mickey Mouse and friends invade the Toyota Center

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

Enchanted

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

Welcome to the Machine

What Else Is New?

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

DVDs

Our top DVD picks for the week of December 14

Just Plain Lion

Aly & AJ

Thursday, July 6, at the Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-230-1600

Our top DVD picks for the week of June 27

Pluck Off

That's not the sky falling, just Disney's Chicken Little

Our top DVD picks for the week of November 1

Bird Droppings

Disney's Valiant effort never leaves the hangar

Bearly Necessary

Jungle fever fails to catch hold again in this routine sequel

Small World

Radio Disney provides a safe haven for little ears, and guilty pleasures for the rest of us

Jonesing for a New Groove

Disney's Emperor takes its cues from the Da Vinci of Warner Bros. animation

Toons with 'Tude

The summer's best action flick may be the animated Titan A. E., which borrows from the leaders of the genre

T-Rex in Mouse Ears

The Mesozoic Era undergoes the Disney treatment in Dinosaur

Disney Lightens Up

Fantasia/2000 strikes a better balance between serious and comic elements

Tonka Turns Tomboy

Disney goes East in Mulan to give girls their due

Press Picks

Shtick-Up

Robbins and Lawrence make something out of Nothing

Same Old Fun

Dogmeat

Disney's Dalmatians ain't the puppy chow it could have been

Press Picks

A Lame, and Troubling, Lion

Disney's latest can't compare with its greatest

Taming the Beast ... and teaching him to tapdance.

In Disney and TUTS' Beauty and the Beast, we've an entertaining "spectacular," but where is my beautiful metaphor for male potency?