Val Kilmer

Lights, Camera, Headaches

The quickest way to ruin a music festival? Get actors to show up.

How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Music Festival: Actors

So Ashton Kutcher allegedly got in a fight at the Stagecoach Music Festival. I know, it's a little mind-boggling, that whole idea. Ashton Kutcher was not only at a country-music festival, but reports say he somehow managed to stay true to his douche-roots and get into a fistfight with a security gua ... More >>

Fear of a Shane Black Planet: The Iron Man 3 Auteur's Career, Reconsidered

Top 20 Things We Need to See at SXSW Next Week

Next week the Rocks Off Action Team goes to Austin for Ess Ex Ess Dubya for another four days of fun, sun, eavesdropping, and live music. And swag, of the free kind, not the kind that Justin Bieber is still trying to make happen. This year at SXSW we're looking forward to many, many things, includ ... More >>

Fun Fun Fun Fest Sunday In Review: Turbonegro, De La Soul, Araab Muzik & More

The last day of Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012 was another dusty affair. I can feel about a pound of crud in my lungs, and my ears are ringing like a mother-fluffer, which means I had a great Sabbath at Auditorium Shores. SLIDESHOWS: The Girls of Fun Fun Fun Fest Turbonegro, De La Soul and Edward Sharpe: F ... More >>

Fun Fun Fun Fest Saturday In Review: Kreayshawn, Refused, Girl Talk & More

Saturday's FFFF was a dusty affair, with merch tables making money off bandannas and other face coverings hand over fist. Where did that phrase come from, by the way? What do hands and fists have to do with making money, aside from petty crime? SLIDESHOW: PiL, Refused, A$AP Rocky: Fun Fun Fun Fest ... More >>

Last Night: Run D.M.C. at Fun Fun Fun Fest

Run D.M.C. Fun Fun Fun Fest Auditorium Shores, Austin November 2, 2012 SLIDESHOW: Run D.M.C., Bob Mould and Val Kilmer: Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012 Day 1 Ten years ago, almost to the day, Hip-Hop lost one of its most adored and influential pioneers. His passing left a void that neither his family, his ... More >>

Fun Fun Fun Fest Friday In Review: Bun B, Bob Mould, Against Me! & More

The first day of Fun Fun Fun Fest was marked by the oddball stylings of an in-character Val Kilmer terrorizing the stage with the Black Lips, and the triumphant return of rap legends Run-D.M.C. rocking the main stage to close out the night. In between there was Bob Mould, Converge, Houston's own Bun ... More >>

Dredd 3D: Judge, Jury and [Insert Explosion]

Dark film is nothing to fear.

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na... Playlist!

I just got back from Comicpalooza and have Batman on the brain. I mean, I always have Batman on the brain because he's freakin' Batman, but now it's reached the jumping from furniture to furniture with a blanket tied around my next screaming, "I am vengeance! I am the night!" phase. Plus, I have a ... More >>

Pink Floyd The Wall at 30: Would Pink Have a Facebook Page?

Rock stars: They're different from us. That's why we love them, and that's why sometimes they can fool themselves into thinking they're Hitler. That, as far as I can tell, is the message of Pink Floyd The Wall, Alan Parker's 1982 film based on the British rockers' 1979 album The Wall. Despite the g ... More >>

Missed Opportunities: 10 Musicians Who Turned Down Big Hits

Have you ever had one of those moments where you thought to yourself, "Why did I do that?" or "Why did I turn that down?" Those kinds of moments happen to all of us. It's part of life, unfortunately. This happens all the time in the movie world, but you never seem to hear about it in the music worl ... More >>

Only at the Alamo: Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang

Pop Rocks: Why the Long Face? Eight Famous Horses We'd Like to Eat

Were you thinking horse meat was going to stay off the menu in American restaurants indefinitely? Neigh: Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a five-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be u ... More >>

Pop Rocks: The "Mane" Course -- Eight Famous Horses We'd Like To Eat

Were you thinking horse meat was going to stay off the menu in American restaurants indefinitely? Neigh: Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up a ... More >>

9 People Who Could Play The King In New Elvis Biopic

tonkoorevaar.be​Tuesday, Paste reported that director John Scheinfeld will be adapting Elvis: Still Taking Care of Business, the memoir of Elvis Presley confidante Sonny West, who was one of the King's bodyguards for 16 years. West was a member of the "Memphis Mafia," Elvis' merry band of bone ... More >>

Las Puertas: 10 Things You May Not Know About The Doors

"Hey Robby, don't try to look too not-stoned in our press still. Thanks, buddy."​On this day in 1965, The Doors began recording demos together, laying down some songs set to Jim Morrison's freaky poems. Nearly 50 years later, the band is an exalted classic-rock group, firmly implanted in that ... More >>

A Decade Makes a Comeback

Paying homage to the '80s, from Hot Tub Time Machine to MacGruber.

Wal-Mart Ejects Christian Band From Store

The 71s are a Christian rock band, but don't let that distract you from the fact that they are completely awesome. Trust me, when a former Satanist is a Christian band's biggest cheerleader, then that band is a band to be reckoned with. And a stunt like the story behind the group's "Start Again" vi ... More >>

This Town Needs an Enema: Rocks Off Movie Night at the Mink with Batman

Note: The date on the above poster should say September 1.​This week's film selection for Rocks Off Movie Nite at the Mink - that's right, we're now officially co-sponsoring this thing - is Tim Burton's 1989 reboot of Batman, starring the third-coolest man to step into the cowl and cape - "Mr. Mom ... More >>

Once You've Worked With Marvin Zindler, A Career In Animation Makes Sense

Okay, here's a picture of the Marc Adler, the creator of the new animated movie Delgo ...And here's a picture of Delgo. Is it just us or does anybody else see a resemblance? We'll get back to that. Adler stopped by the Houston Press offices and spoke with Hair Balls about his new baby, Delgo, an ani ... More >>

Thank You Lord, For These Thy Gifts: Five Movie Thanksgivings

Thanksgiving isn't just about federally subsidized gluttony and a spike in domestic disturbance calls, it's about slipping into a tryptophan-induced coma while watching TV. This year, instead of enduring another slapstick performance by the Detroit Lions, how about checking out a few Turkey Day them ... More >>

Control

Joy Division portrait proves the exception to the rock biopic drool

Wars, Penguins and Gays: Oh, My!

The year in review

Hello, He's Not Johnny Cash

Walk the Line never strays from the dull telling of a tall tale

Cape of Good Hope

Skate Bored

The Z-Boys roll into Dogtown again, and truth is cooler than fiction

Going Mental

Mindhunters is truly stupid fun

Call Him Al

An epic story turns human -- and fallible -- in Oliver Stone's Alexander

Dammit, Mamet!

Based on Spartan, it would seem the master of macho dialogue has lost his touch

Holmes Fried

Wonderland leaves you wondering about its characters

The Jizz Age

X-rated starlets bust through the fourth wall

Salton Crackers

A parade of crazies keeps this Sea afloat

Blunt Object

A not-subtle but unsettling Joe the King exposes child abuse

Exodus Lost

Prince of Egypt goes wrong with Good Book rewrites

Howler

The Jackal is a dog of a movie

Batman on Ice

Director Joel Schumacher, not Mr. Freeze, kills the Dark Knight

From Russia, with Love

With the loopy, retro Saint, Val Kilmer has himself a new franchise

The Happy Hero

The Phantom delivers a comic-book masked guy from the days before angst

High Hopes

Wings of Courage is a grand, if failed, IMAX experiment

Sound Check

Batman, At Last

Sexy and soulful, Schumacher's epic proves the third time's the charm

Press Picks

The Watchman of the Electronic Frontier

As the cyber-future creeps toward Houston, one group stands guard: EFH