Everybody's Got One: The Home of Tim Grierson

Shaun of the Dead 's Simon Pegg seems destined to be a star, but movies like Run, Fat Boy, Run won't do much to help the cause.

These Miami teens love their old-school heavy metal. Light From Above is their first album: They have all the moves down cold, but they ha...

The Trojans, led by freshman sensation O.J. Mayo, go to Omaha Thursday to play the Kansas State Wildcats in the first round of the NCAA coll...

Songwriters Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan, formerly of, respectively, the Afghan Whigs and Screaming Trees, have teamed up as the Gutter Twins...

Can Hollywood capitalize on the trendy sport of mixed martial arts? The new teen drama Never Back Down suggests that, in a pinch, they'...

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song is an adoring, moving documentary about the protest folk singer. I review it in this week's Consumables ,...

Disney's latest piece of pseudo-wholesome family entertainment, College Road Trip , opens today. Watching Martin Lawrence try to be ador...

Frances McDormand is terrific, Amy Adams is decent: That's the short review of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day . The longer, more interes...

The first annual Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival kicks off Friday at the Landmark. For L.A. Weekly , I sampled some of the festival...

I've been reading wall-to-wall election coverage in the last 24 hours, but I'm not sure if anyone more accurately nailed the challen...

Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson are both terrific in Married Life , a dark comedy-drama about one middle-aged couple's seemingly happ...

I don't condone Monster bashing, but Josh Modell's review at Spin about R.E.M.'s forthcoming Accelerate has me very excited. 

Writer-director-actor Stephen Chow, the man behind Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle , returns with CJ7 , a hyperactive kids' movie tha...

Actor Eric Bana ( Munich , The Hulk ) has two films coming out this weekend. The higher-profile one is The Other Boleyn Girl , but he's ...

Last night's Academy Awards made for an entertaining evening, says I. Also in Consumables , I discuss U2 3D , Be Kind Rewind , and Diary...

Most reviews thus far have been unkind to Vantage Point , but I actually think there's some merit in the film. You can read my musings a...

It's been 12 years since Beck's landmark record Odelay brought phrases like "two turntables and a microphone" and "go...

Les Claypool is a revered cult musician -- he was the driving force behind Primus -- and he's hung around the business most of his life....

There's a good chance you've heard Sia's music and didn't even realize it: She appears on the soundtracks of shows like Six ...

The Eels have two collections out now: a best-of ( Meet the Eels ) and a compilation of outtakes ( Useless Trinkets ). No matter the Eels fa...