Everybody's Got One: The Home of Tim Grierson

Imagine if the Carpenters tried to do a cover of "Rainbow Connection" but didn't get it quite right. That's one way to des...

It's one hell of an experience. Interstellar , the latest from filmmaker Christopher Nolan, wants to be the biggest, grandest, most ...

Most who caught White Bird in a Blizzard at Sundance seemed to have been left cold by it. (Har har har.) But I found this Gregg Araki fi...

Like lots of people, I enjoy mocking Phish and their fans. It's easy sport, even easier because I don't think I've heard more th...

Over at Deadspin , I reviewed Citizenfour , which was a sensation at the New York Film Festival. A documentary that takes you behind the ...

Sweden's official entry for the Oscars, Force Majeure kick-starts its plot on a split-second decision a husband makes that radically...

Xavier Dolan's Mommy was one of the divisive films at this year's Cannes. I haven't seen it yet, but while in Beirut I got a...

While at the Beirut Film Festival , I got the chance to catch up on a few movies that I had let fall through the cracks. One of those was...

For Playboy , I decided to to put together a handy-dandy list of great animated movies that are currently streaming on Netflix. (The catc...

Don't ask me my opinion of tUnE-yArDs: I simply have never been able to get a grasp on Merrill Garbus's much-acclaimed indie-rock pr...

I'm very happy to say that I'll be part of the New Auteurs jury at this year's AFI Fest . And I'm especially pleased to b...

Late last month, I went to the Middle East for the first time. My trip was in connection to my attendance at the Beirut International Fil...

For the first reel of Birdman , I was wowed but a bit resistant. A whole film made to look like one shot? Another story about an artist a...

Is Bill Murray more of an actor or a walking meme? I explore that question while discussing his latest film, St. Vincent , for Deadspin ....

Yesterday, I conducted a Q&A with two of Boyhood 's stars, Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke, for the SAG Foundation . This is actua...

This week, I hosted a post-screening Q&A with Clara Mamet, the writer-director of the forthcoming Two-Bit Waltz , for the SAG Foundation...

This morning, I taped an appearance on KCRW's Press Play With Madeleine Brand . Greg Ellwood and I chatted with Madeleine about all t...

Fury is a movie I respected more than I loved, but I respected it enough to recommend. Writer-director David Ayer has made a World War I...

For Backstage , I profiled Matt Lauria, the go-to character actor who's been on Friday Night Lights and Parenthood . His latest ende...

For the first time, I attended the Beirut International Film Festival . I'll have more to say about that soon, but in the meantime he...