Everybody's Got One: The Home of Tim Grierson

The Condemned is recommended to fans of bad reality television and professional wrestling. Hey, you've been warned.

When I got married a year ago, several of our great writers at The Simon offered me wedding advice . It was a real surprise and a treat at ...

Usually, describing a movie as a "creepy cockroach of a thriller" isn't high praise, but in the case of Vacancy , it's a ...

A lot, says author Zev Chafets, and I have to agree with him . Jackie Robinson Day is an exercise in racial public relations. Baseball despe...

Rear Window for the teen set? Probably, but it's an effective thriller with a surprising amount of brains and heart.

Grindhouse tops the list of items in my latest installment of Consumables . Also, I show much love to Killer Sheep and The Host and !!!.

Charles Burnett's rarely-seen 1977 movie Killer of Sheep is finally getting a proper theatrical release. (It's playing at the Nuart...

The world of spoken-word slam poetry is too interesting for filmmakers to resist, but thus far they've yet to do it justice. Fighting Wo...

This piece was written for The Black Table three years ago to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's suicide. I still agree w...

"My artwork and films are about responding to daily materials, conditions, tasks and/or gestures of people of African descent," ex...

Another satire on the banality of the entertainment industry? Yes, but writer-director Jake Kasdan's The TV Set has more depth than you...

Her name is Shana Levy. She fronts a band called Let's Go Sailing. She lives in Los Angeles. Her new album, The Chaos in Order , is out ...

I loved Susanne Bier's last film, Brothers , but her latest -- After the Wedding , which was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Fil...

I tend not to care too much about articles debating the relevance of film critics -- if you read film criticism, they are relevant; if you d...

Yes, Peyton Manning, a football player, was hilarious on Saturday Night Live this past weekend. I sing his praises in Consumables ... and ...

The sequel to last year's remake of the 1970s Wes Craven horror classic is a stunning artistic statement. OK, maybe not.

After impressive wins over Arkansas and Texas in the first two rounds of the NCAA college basketball tournament, the Trojans take on the Nor...

It's hard to say when audiences' saturation point for Iraq War documentaries will come -- if it hasn't come already -- but The P...

I loved Adam Sandler's dramatic turn in Punch-Drunk Love and I adored writer-director Mike Binder's prickly, moving The Upside of ...

Based on the true story of a Londoner's successful attempts during the 1990s to pose as famed film director Stanley Kubrick, Color Me Ku...