Everybody's Got One: The Home of Tim Grierson

Hardly a rebellious youth, I recall that one of the "edgiest" things I ever did in my childhood was trying to rent Kentucky Fri...

In the span of about a week, I saw 25 films at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. That sounds like a lot, and it is, but because I wasn...

Someone who follows me on Twitter mentioned that he was very interested in seeing Side Effects , the forthcoming film from Steven Soderbe...

Anybody else out there like Dead Snow ? Norwegian horror movie from a few years ago? Very much tongue-in-cheek? Featured Nazi zombies? Th...

Juno Temple is the best part of Magic Magic , a trippy psychological horror movie about a young American woman who's probably losing he...

Adam Scott is in danger of becoming the new Anna Faris. By this, I mean that he's an actor we all like whom we think should be a much...

Yo La Tengo just released a new album, which I need to hear. (Hey, I've been a little busy .) But it got me thinking about other great ...

Others were captivated by the Sundance comedy In a World ..., the feature debut of writer-director-star Lake Bell. Me, I though it was qu...

You may remember that a few years ago I interviewed the Polish brothers after they took issue with a post I wrote about the direction o...

Back in 2010, directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman premiered Howl on opening night at the Sundance Film Festival. They return to t...

For those of you who have been hankering for a movie that brings together Elizabeth Olsen and Dakota Fanning, you are in luck: Very Good ...

I haven't read the David Sedaris essay that serves as the inspiration for C.O.G. , but I can only hope it's as compassionate and ...

I liked Sound of My Voice , the first film from director Zal Batmanglij and star Brit Marling, but unfortunately their second, The East ,...

Ain't Them Bodies Saints is part of Sundance's U.S. Dramatic Competition, and if the jury decides to give out a prize for Best T...

I get the impression that I'm less enamored by Prince Avalanche , the new film from writer-director David Gordon Green, than other pe...

How many trilogies get better with each film? The Lord of the Rings , right. Anything else? I can't think of any others, either. Unti...

No, this isn't a still from Spring Breakers . It's S-VHS , the sequel to last year's indie cult sensation V/H/S . That means ...

Before talking about Breathe In , it's probably important to remind you that I was a fan of director Drake Doremus' last film, L...

Touchy Feely , the latest from writer-director Lynn Shelton, isn't as good as Humpday or Your Sister's Sister . But it still move...

Naomi Watts and Robin Wright are both excellent in Two Mothers , which is said to be based on a true story. Two longtime friends, Lil and...