Mel Gibson

"The Three Stooges: The Movie": Classic Schtick, Resurrected

5 Tips for Feeling Like You've Accomplished Something By 30

​I know it's bad form, but sometimes I still want to eat as much junk food as possible as quickly as possible. Last night, for example, while in line at the grocery store, I wanted to grab as many Kit Kats and Twizzlers as I could carry and shovel them into my face hole on the drive home. In the s ... More >>

Early Cannes Report: Troubled Parents, Troubled Kids Aplenty

​I know it's bad form, but sometimes I still want to eat as much junk food as possible as quickly as possible. Last night, for example, while in line at the grocery store, I wanted to grab as many Kit Kats and Twizzlers as I could carry and shovel them into my face hole on the drive home. In the s ... More >>

"The Beaver": Mel Gibson and His Puppet's Strange Return to Screen

​I know it's bad form, but sometimes I still want to eat as much junk food as possible as quickly as possible. Last night, for example, while in line at the grocery store, I wanted to grab as many Kit Kats and Twizzlers as I could carry and shovel them into my face hole on the drive home. In the s ... More >>

"The Eagle": A Neophyte Roman General Leads a Boy's Adventure

​I know it's bad form, but sometimes I still want to eat as much junk food as possible as quickly as possible. Last night, for example, while in line at the grocery store, I wanted to grab as many Kit Kats and Twizzlers as I could carry and shovel them into my face hole on the drive home. In the s ... More >>

The Five Weirdest Movie Performances By Rock Musicians

Putting rock musicians in movies has been a catchpenny ploy since about fifteen minutes after rock music began to hit nationwide in the mid-1950s. The crusty-nosed brats buying all the records were, after all, the very same unruly vermin clogging American drive-ins every weekend. At first, acts were ... More >>

The Week in Gay: Heterosexual Bloodbath

This week, let's check in on the heteros​The National Organization for Marriage is on a month-long, 23-city tour in the U.S. to promote heterosexual supremacy. During the tour, NOM is depicting itself as the victim of a campaign similar to the one they are engaged in to marginalize and defame LGBT ... More >>

Border Disputes

This week, let's check in on the heteros​The National Organization for Marriage is on a month-long, 23-city tour in the U.S. to promote heterosexual supremacy. During the tour, NOM is depicting itself as the victim of a campaign similar to the one they are engaged in to marginalize and defame LGBT ... More >>

Get Inuit

This week, let's check in on the heteros​The National Organization for Marriage is on a month-long, 23-city tour in the U.S. to promote heterosexual supremacy. During the tour, NOM is depicting itself as the victim of a campaign similar to the one they are engaged in to marginalize and defame LGBT ... More >>

Edge of Darkness: Mel Gibson gets some kind of revenge

This week, let's check in on the heteros​The National Organization for Marriage is on a month-long, 23-city tour in the U.S. to promote heterosexual supremacy. During the tour, NOM is depicting itself as the victim of a campaign similar to the one they are engaged in to marginalize and defame LGBT ... More >>

Logan's Jog: Portable Audio From the Dystopian Future

It will fall to future generations to grasp how truly shitty the Oughts were. They won't believe it at first. They'll say, "You mean to tell me Mel Gibson didn't specially build New Orleans as a place to film Biblical tales?" Or, "If the emoticon wasn't the 43rd president, then who was?" Or, "I thou ... More >>

Track of the Day: SpongeBob SquarePants' Jerky X-Mas

​Normally I'm not a fan of cartoon music, but SpongeBob SquarePants is one of those characters that walks the fine line between kiddie and adult humor. Plus, what can I say, I'm a sucker for funny novelty holiday tunes. So today's Track of the Day is SpongeBob's "Don't Be a Jerk (It's Christmas)." ... More >>

Devil May Care

​Normally I'm not a fan of cartoon music, but SpongeBob SquarePants is one of those characters that walks the fine line between kiddie and adult humor. Plus, what can I say, I'm a sucker for funny novelty holiday tunes. So today's Track of the Day is SpongeBob's "Don't Be a Jerk (It's Christmas)." ... More >>

Worth the Gamble

Forget The Grand's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

Three the Hard Way

Forget The Grand's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

"NEWS ALERT! San Francisco Has Banished Halloween!!!"

Forget The Grand's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

Boxing Bootcamp Day 13 -- Freedom Edition!

Forget The Grand's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

Good Clean Smut

Forget The Grand's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

Good Clean Smut

Forget The Grand's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

Arresting Development

You liked Shaun of the Dead? Then Hot Fuzz will bust a cap in your arse.

Her One Little Secret

You liked Shaun of the Dead? Then Hot Fuzz will bust a cap in your arse.

Repertory Film Listings

You liked Shaun of the Dead? Then Hot Fuzz will bust a cap in your arse.

Repertory Film Listings

You liked Shaun of the Dead? Then Hot Fuzz will bust a cap in your arse.

Ace Up His Sleeve

Joe Carnahan's overly slick, heavily edited dark comedy works despite itself

Mel Gibson Is Responsible for All the Wars in the World

OK, slight exaggeration. But he's at least to blame for this one.

Cross-Purposes

A Catholic film calls for reform in the shape of a limp thriller

Lights, Camera, Gospel!

A look inside the grandiose cinematic dreams -- and genuine transcendent joy -- at Voice of Pentecost Church

From Major to Minor

Why the best films of 2004 look like indies but aren't

God Dame It

Musical comedy from down there

Entertain Your Brain

The new docudrama What the #$*! Do We Know!? is a real mind-bender

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The new docudrama What the #$*! Do We Know!? is a real mind-bender

Burning Japanese

Godzilla after 50 years reveals more than just a rubber suit

Jersey Gurgle

Kevin Smith is Silent Bob? Dude, my butt he is.

At the Movies

In which I take "The World's Most Hated Band" to see The Passion of the Christ

Suffer Unto Mel

Gibson's Passion is more torture test than devotional

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Signs of Faith

Mel Gibson has a close encounter with God -- or just a mean E.T.

Mel Sells Out

What Women Want is a better movie than this two-hour Nike ad

Saving Private Mad Max

Mel Gibson stars in The Patriot

Coop D'état

Chicken Run is finger lickin' good

Jet Set

Chicken Run is finger lickin' good

Reel World

Ace in the Hole and On the Town

From Chinatown to Niketown

Robert Towne, the best screenwriter in the business and the man who invented Jake Gittes, is back with a bio of Olympic runner Steve Prefontaine

Kooky Proles and Gucci Buddhism

A neo-noir, an Ur-neo-noir, and a black political satire color a pallid year of retreads, bogus events, and charity cases.

The Truth, and the Consequences, Are Out There

A neo-noir, an Ur-neo-noir, and a black political satire color a pallid year of retreads, bogus events, and charity cases.

Rich Man's Burden

A neo-noir, an Ur-neo-noir, and a black political satire color a pallid year of retreads, bogus events, and charity cases.

Night Crawler

A neo-noir, an Ur-neo-noir, and a black political satire color a pallid year of retreads, bogus events, and charity cases.