Everybody's Got One: The Home of Tim Grierson

The newest animated film from director Satoshi Kon is beloved by everyone. Except me.

Based on Elizabeth Shue's childhood experience of playing soccer in boys-only leagues, Gracie is a bit of a family affair. After watchin...

Well, the long wait is over. The Police's reunion tour kicks off this weekend. To get you in the mood, here's a list of 10 hidden ge...

VH1's annual Rock Honors program airs tonight, which includes a tribute to ZZ Top, who will be performing. For VH1's website, I look...

This third Pirates is more ho-hum than yo ho ho .

Make snide jokes all you want, but Maroon 5's new album, It Won't Be Soon Before Long , is actually pretty good .

Having recently seen No End in Sight , the terrific Iraq War documentary by Charles Ferguson, I was reminded of The Corporation , an equally...

I never thought I'd live to see the day when a music critic would actually dare to say he preferred Son Volt to Wilco. Bless you, Mark M...

A drama starring Forest Whitaker, Danny DeVito, Ray Liotta, Tim Roth, Carla Gugino, Kelsey Grammer, and Kim Basinger comes out today. Why ha...

The Wendell Baker Story , written and co-directed by Luke Wilson (who also stars), starts off so promisingly that it's even more disappo...

Michael Keaton is the star of The Last Time , a mediocre film that doesn't have enough confidence in its central theme and instead reso...

As film critic Roger Ebert continues to recover from surgery, he tells of a bouquet of get-well flowers that came from a most unlikely pers...

Loved the first one. But the new one is just so-so. Also in Consumables, I discuss Away From Her and new singles by the White Stripes, Avr...

It's done like a mockumentary, but there's a lot of heart to Chalk , a great look inside the demanding world of high school teachers...

Hoping to grab the crowds who liked Barbershop , The Salon offers a similar milieu. If you can't get enough jokes about how white peopl...

The documentary The Hip Hop Project operates in the inspirational, make-a-difference genre. Savvy rap fans may quibble with some of the ass...

Steely Dan , the crown princes of '70s snark, just kicked off another summer tour. In honor of that wonderful news, here is a salute to ...

The Los Angeles Lakers lost in the first round, for the second straight year, to the Phoenix Suns. Two years into the new Phil Jackson era, ...

I loved Shaun of the Dead , but Edgar Wright's new film, Hot Fuzz , isn't up to the same level. Also in Consumables , I review Jinda...

Waitress , starring a terrific Keri Russell, turned out to be writer-director-actor Adrienne Shelly's last film. (She was murdered in Ne...