Everybody's Got One: The Home of Tim Grierson

Bradley Cooper does some of his best work in Limitless . It's not a great film, but it works pretty nicely. I share my deep, probing tho...

My dirty little secret is that I was never the biggest Sleater-Kinney fan. I liked them, I respected them, but they never quite blew my sock...

Gary Oldman camps it up. Amanda Seyfried does her best to seem sultry and innocent at the same time. And the whole thing feels like Twilight...

For the first time in a long time, Matthew McConaughey isn't just tolerable but actually good in a movie. That film is The Lincoln Lawy...

There have been good sci-fi animated films of late: Monsters vs. Aliens , Wall-E . Sadly, Mars Needs Moms is not one of them. My review is u...

Because you need some pretty melancholy for your Friday, right? Right. This is off the Decemberists' new album, The King Is Dead .

Some movies make you long for those hormone-driven days of high school. And then there's Beastly , which is a teen remake of Beauty and ...

Matt Damon seems to have bad luck with movies he releases in March through Universal. Last year brought Green Zone , and this year we have T...

The latest film from Apichatpong Weerasethakul is one of his best. (I may ultimately prefer Syndromes and a Century , but it's a close c...

I was rooting for James Franco and Anne Hathaway at the Oscars. But they tanked, especially Franco. I try to figure out why over at Yahoo .

Today's my mom's birthday. So let's play a song that I know she'd like. (And let's be honest: I'm a sucker for it, t...

I am comfortable with the fact that I'm not smart enough to understand how the balloting works for Best Picture at the Oscars. (And don...

Remember when Helmet was going to be the next Nirvana? Didn't happen, did it? Oh well, "Unsung" is still an absolute monster.

I Am Number Four is like Smallville meets Spider-Man meets Twilight meets Harry Potter . Except not as good. My review is up at Yahoo.

I just saw a website that declared Drive-By Truckers' new Go-Go Boots their worst album. Even if that was the case, they still operate o...

Just Go With It is only slightly less terrible than No Strings Attached . That's as close as I can get to being nice to Adam Sandler...

No Beatles song that appears on one of their albums can be considered obscure or a "hidden gem." (No band has had its entire catal...

I was actually interested in seeing Justin Bieber: Never Say Never . 3D concert movies are, generally speaking, a treat, and I was hoping th...

My review of Cedar Rapids was a perfect way for me to go off on so-called "Sundance comedies." Put bluntly, I'm sick of 'e...

Continuing a fun annual tradition, I reviewed this year's Oscar-nominated shorts for The Village Voice . The twist for 2011? It's no...