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 >>
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 >>
This week, let's check in on the heterosThe 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Forget The Grand's poker face. It's the people who are cards.
You liked Shaun of the Dead? Then Hot Fuzz will bust a cap in your arse.
OK, slight exaggeration. But he's at least to blame for this one.
A Catholic film calls for reform in the shape of a limp thriller
A look inside the grandiose cinematic dreams -- and genuine transcendent joy -- at Voice of Pentecost Church
Why the best films of 2004 look like indies but aren't
Musical comedy from down there
The new docudrama What the #$*! Do We Know!? is a real mind-bender
Godzilla after 50 years reveals more than just a rubber suit
Kevin Smith is Silent Bob? Dude, my butt he is.
In which I take "The World's Most Hated Band" to see The Passion of the Christ
Gibson's Passion is more torture test than devotional
Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003
Mel Gibson has a close encounter with God -- or just a mean E.T.
What Women Want is a better movie than this two-hour Nike ad
Mel Gibson stars in The Patriot
Chicken Run is finger lickin' good
Ace in the Hole and On the Town
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
A neo-noir, an Ur-neo-noir, and a black political satire color a pallid year of retreads, bogus events, and charity cases.
