Everybody's Got One: The Home of Tim Grierson

... you'll thank me later.

In the three years I've been dating my wonderful girlfriend/fiancee/bride-to-be, I've consulted an essay entitled " The Road Ta...

Who needs to spend time criticizing the Bush administration when Gary Trudeau can do it for us in eight perfect panels ?

On their latest album, Garden Ruin , the Tucson band get as political as you can while still writing lilting, acoustic ballads. Or so says I...

On the anniversary of the Nirvana frontman's suicide, I decided to go back and re-read this piece from The Black Table . Several writer...

It'll break my dad's heart, but as hard as I tried, I couldn't find much nice to say about Billy Joel in this recent piece .

I love them, I hate them, I don't know what to do with them .

Peter Bogdanovich risks sounding like the grumpy old man who always complains how great things used to be back in his day, but his defense ...

"Not everyone adores The New World ," J. Hoberman writes in The Village Voice , "but those cineastes who like it, really, rea...

James Bates does a commendable job going beyond the angry accusations to lay out a very calm, logical explanation for Crash 's win at t...

Professor Jeffrey Hart makes an important distinction between these two terms in his piece on President Bush, arguing that our current admi...

At long last, the man is finally getting his Oscar. I do my best to praise his representation of the city I love.

I've been a fan of Rupert Murray's documentary since last year's Los Angeles Film Festival. Now it's finally receiving its t...

Brendan Bernhard's piece in the LA Weekly does a great job of discussing the recent rash of violence propagated by some radical Islamis...

Fans of The Simpsons can't hear the word "monorail" without laughing ... some of us even remember the words to the song in th...

Neil Young, that is. Jonathan Demme's fine new concert film about the man heads up my latest Consumables .

Thomas de Zengotita's excellent piece on the allure of American Idol comforts all of us who hate that show by agreeing with our complai...

I can't imagine how current teenagers could have any understanding of what a talented (and often hilarious) outfit the Wu-Tang Clan were...

I've been meaning to put this up for a few weeks now. Let the mild debate begin. 10. King Kong Some movies have such tremendous upsid...

I loved Dogville so much that I both feared and kinda looked forward to the second installment in Lars von Trier's "U.S.A." t...