Everybody's Got One: The Home of Tim Grierson

As a fan of Glenn Kenny's for a while, I'm sorry that he despised my piece on Beasts of the Southern Wild , where I detailed my ...

One of the things I struggle with in regards to writing on the web is this notion that there are only two types of film writing: You eith...

This blog is frighteningly low on Erykah Badu posts. Let's fix that.

Sometimes with my Back Stage Screen Grab column, the pickings can be extremely thin. Not this week: There are several strong films openi...

For the first hour of Magic Mike , I was convinced I was watching one of the best films of the year. Sadly, this male-stripper comedy-dra...

In some ways, The Amazing Spider-Man is almost the odd man out in this summer's comic-book movie sweepstakes. Everybody was salivati...

This weekend, Neil Young Journeys opens. It's the third and final film in director Jonathan Demme's trilogy of concert films abou...

He's the director of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter , Wanted and the Night Watch / Day Watch films. Because I liked Vampire Hunte...

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane makes his feature debut with Ted . My prediction: Your feelings about Family Guy will be just about e...

Hate to go all negative on you for your Friday, but I had huge problems with Brave . In fact, I really do think it's Pixar's wors...

One of the bigger musical surprises this year is how strong the new Smashing Pumpkins album, Oceania , is. (Seriously, I wrote a whole re...

For no good reason, I held out hope that Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was going to be a hoot. And a hoot it is. Totally ridiculous, o...

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World comes out on Friday, and it's a movie I seem to like a lot more than my colleagues . For D...

For IFC Fix, I decided to vent a little bit about Rock of Ages and its atrocious music. It's perfectly fine if you like mainstream ...

Being a fan of Woody Allen requires a willingness to defend him on lots of different grounds. (There's the Soon-Yi business, the fact...

Writing projects delayed me, so I'm only now mentioning this week's Screen Grab column for Back Stage . That's unfortunate si...

For the record, That's My Boy is actually a better Adam Sandler vehicle than Just Go With It or Jack and Jill . But, yes, it's ...

If I made a list of the 10 greatest albums of all time, there is a distinct possibility that Sinead O'Connor's I Do Not Want What I ...

Live long enough and certain movies will start to have decades-long relationships with you, their meanings morphing before your eyes as y...

Rock of Ages covers an era of music that, in interest of full disclosure, I've never really enjoyed. As a rule, 1980s corporate rock...