Everybody's Got One: The Home of Tim Grierson

Alec Baldwin is the voice of The Boss Baby . I have not seen the movie, which looks rather dreadful. But for MEL , I took this opportunit...

I have yet to fully absorb 50 Song Memoir -- gimme a break, there are 50 songs -- but I'm really liking what I hear so far. And I defin...

I don't need to be told that Chris Evans is a good actor. Just because he's Captain America, that doesn't he mean he doesn...

Critics shouldn't take these things under consideration before they see a movie, but when a film doesn't screen before the Wednes...

After the Storm is the latest from writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda. It's lovely, like so many of his films, telling the story of a...

I make my glorious return to the podcast this week: Will and I reviewed Life , CHIPS and Power Rangers . It's good to be back. If yo...

I was very happy to be back on Madeleine Brand's show yesterday, and even happier to be hanging out with my buddy Christy Lemire. We ...

Of the three big releases this weekend, I'll take Life over the not-that-bad CHIPS and the truly dreadful Power Rangers . Yes, it...

You can't pick the earworms that consume you. "Lemme Know" has been lodged in my brain this week for reasons I could not begin...

After last night's all-media screening of CHIPS , I could sense that certain colleagues were feeling very sheepish about how much the...

Jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan was a major star in the 1960s. But he ended up murdered by his common-law wife in 1972 at the age of 33. What h...

I'm still on vocal rest, so you won't hear me doing new reviews on this week's episode of our New Republic podcast. Thankful...

As per norm, I had a great time in Columbia, Missouri, and as per norm, I wrote a massive tome for Paste that chronicled just about ever...

Jessica Chastain is suitably restrained as, you guessed it, a zookeeper's wife in this fact-based World War II drama about a Polish c...

For decades, different actors and auteurs have been dubbed (or have sought to be dubbed) the next Woody Allen. In honor of Paul Rust, the...

Transformers is back, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is back, so why not Power Rangers ? No. No, let's not let that happen. The new f...

For MEL , I spent a little time researching artists that are beloved in the alt-right world. Why? Because I'm fascinated why these cr...

It's been 21 years since Trainspotting , the movie, and Danny Boyle has brought back the gang for T2 Trainspotting , which couldn...

Sorry, I'm still not entirely sold on Parquet Courts. But this track off last year's Human Performance gets me bopping. I'm alw...

So happy to have our old Yahoo editor Mark Lisanti as a special guest for this week's episode. He and Will discuss Kong: Skull Island...