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It's Blockbuster Time: Your Guide to the Summer Movie Season

Movie by movie, here's how to get the most out of this summer without having to cake on sunscreen.

Heaven's Gate Revisited

Michael Cimino revisits his notorious flop Heaven's Gate, which maybe was a masterpiece all along.

No, This Is How It's Done

Seven Psychopaths is a great, nasty time at the movies.

Pop Rocks: The Hunger Games Trailer, Reviewed By A Non-Reader Of The Books

​I don't know much about The Hunger Games. It's nothing personal. Plenty of people enjoyed the series, but my stack of "need to read" books stands at about 50 titles already and generally swings between ponderous historical tomes and crime novels of the Dennis Lehane/George Pelecanos variety. ... More >>

Last Night: Propain's "Say I Won't" Video Premiere At 300 Bowling

Photos by Larami SerranoPropain (left) and DJ Don​Propain "Say I Won't" video premiere party 300 Bowling, Katy May 15, 2011 Sunday night, Propain, whose name has to be brought up during any "Which New Houston Sir Is Most Likely Pop Nationally?" conversation, had a video premiere party for his ... More >>

Weed: The Top Ten Texas Stoners of All Time

Matthew McConaughey possibly has experimented​The 82nd session of the august Texas Legislature will no doubt end as all the others have, without decriminalizing marijuana even for medical use. (We're just going out on a limb here with this prediction.) More and more states seem to be getting ... More >>

Top 10 Musician Movie Cameos

Rocks Off has no idea why Mick Jagger might prefer Performance to Ned Kelly.​Over recent years, Rocks Off has been repeatedly surprised by the quality performances of musicians in films. Naturally, there are some duds in the mix; even Mick Jagger himself, who starred in 1970's Ned Kelly, disow ... More >>

The Hole Review We'd Like To Write Next Week

Craig Hlavaty​"As we all waited, sweat-covered and parched, for the encore, something flashed over us in the crowd. Courtney Love had finally kicked her demons into the gutter, and we were all there witnessing it together. "The lights dimmed a little more and Aftermath spied that shock of bl ... More >>

New On DVD: This Is A Radio Clash, From Pirate Satellite

​Out on DVD today is Pirate Radio, staring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Nighy. So, walk right by Woody Harrelson's Defendor, Lauren Holly's The Final Storm and unless you're just a die-hard fan, Robert Englund's Nightmare on Elm Street collection. If you've got kids (or fond childhood memories) ... More >>

New On DVD: It's The End Of The World As We Know It, And John Cusack Feels Fine As He Cashes A Paycheck

​The only DVD released today that earned big bucks at the box office was the Sony Pictures apocalyptic thriller 2012. The year 2012 has long been predicted by various ancient cultures as the year the world will end (or at least end as we now know it). That idea's the basis for director Roland Emme ... More >>

Weed Takes Root

Marijuana's steady creep toward legalization nationwide.

Houston 101: A Notorious Montrose Murder's (Alleged) Connection To The Deaths of JFK and MLK

​At first, it seemed like a routine call to Houston cop C.M. Bullock. On June 23, 1965, a concerned relative of elderly couple Fred C. and Edwina Rogers had asked the police to check on the couple, as they hadn't been answering the phone for a few days. Bullock and his partner forced their way in ... More >>

It's a Miserable Life in Seven Pounds

Will Smith encores his Pursuit of Happyness

Worth the Gamble: The Grand

Forget this movie's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

Personal Foul: Semi-Pro

Will Ferrell's umpteenth sports comedy is only half bad. His half.

The Walker

A gay escort finds himself at the center of a classic D.C. scandal.

The New KKK

...is not quite what you'd expect

The Delightful Dud

Truly, Madly, Darkly

Richard Linklater's Scanner is a rotoscoped feast for freaks

The Long Good-bye

Garrison Keillor's Prairie makes a fine pasture for Altman

Moore's the Pity

This tear-jerking "women's film" won't win any prizes

Redemption Thong

Salma's shorts get top billing in an otherwise unwatchable caper

Family Ties

A tale of two sisters, and a father who wouldn't quit pursuing a killer

Enough's Enough

The Spy Kids go 3-D, but where are Mom and Dad?

Fight Club

Sandler and Nicholson yell at each other, and it's unpleasant

Rock and a Hard Place

Music can free your soul, but can it spring the West Memphis Three?

Boot Camp

A pumped-up U-571 recalls Wolfgang Petersen's famous German submarine drama

Shaggy Dog

The insipid Austin Powers is a total waste

Reel Time

EDtv tries to upstage Truman on TV's impact

Hi-Lo Ho-Hum

A fine Western love story gets reduced into a Mild Bunch

Unconventional Conflict

War films get redefined by the complex Thin Red Line

Twice Removed

The faux-noir Palmetto winks at the audience instead of staring it down

The Albanian Candidate

Wag the Dog bares its teeth at the White House

Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

War Story

All's more than fair in Welcome to Sarajevo

Porn Again

Larry Flynt the movie does something Larry Flynt the man wouldn't: It fails to go all the way

Alison Cook looks back at 1996: Year of the Rat

Beat the Heat!

1996 Summer Guide

Media Mad

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

Press Picks

Yee-haw City

The Cowboy Way takes a fun ride through New York