Everybody's Got One: The Home of Tim Grierson

This week's Back Stage column is full of choice offerings, and I'm not just saying that because four of the six films I reviewed...

Shut Up and Play the Hits chronicles LCD Soundsystem's final concert, but more than that, it dives into the mindset of front man Jam...

With Argo about ready to come out, I decided to write about the remarkable, unlikely comeback that Ben Affleck has orchestrated over the...

Like many people, I've long lamented the fact that MTV doesn't play videos anymore. But why? Were videos in and of themselves incred...

This week's Screen Grab is live at Back Stage , but right now I'd like to take a moment to single out The Paperboy , a movie that...

Liam Neeson! Liam Neeson! Liam Neeson! My review of Taken 2 is up at Deadspin .

Director Andrea Arnold has made three films, each of them distinctive and resonant. Her latest, an adaptation of Wuthering Heights , impr...

I felt like hearing something peppy. So here you go....

"dying to find out sports fans are so full of themselves that they call those 60-minute ESPN 'Behind The Music'-but-sports t...

I'm less a fan of Pitch Perfect than some people are, so my pick of the weekend is Looper . Both films are part of the latest instal...

Glengarry Glen Ross is certainly in the running for best films adapted from plays. I can't quite believe that the film came out Octob...

How to Survive a Plague , a documentary about ACT UP's battle in the late '80s and early '90s to raise awareness for AIDS res...

My thoughts on Trouble With the Curve ? It swings and misses. It fails to clear the fences. It gets some runners on base but fails to sco...

My beloved KEXP is celebrating its 40th anniversary by asking its listeners to pick their Top 20 albums of the last 40 years . In other ...

It is a backhanded compliment to say that Frankenweenie is Tim Burton's best films in years. (Yes, even better than Alice in Wonderl...

I skipped House at the End of the Street , but today for Gawker I decided to do a little status report on the state of her career. Any e...

The new Band of Horses record, Mirage Rock , is out now. (It's pretty darn good .) If I had to pick a favorite track, I'd probably g...

Within the first 10 minutes or so of Dredd , a guy's head melts from the inside. Yeah, I knew this was a movie for me. My Dredd revi...

I loved The Master and in particular was impressed with Joaquin Phoenix. This is the best work of his career, which is saying something....

I'm fascinated by Harmony Korine's career, which I've discussed before . Even his Trash Humpers , which I couldn't stand,...