wall-e made me very happy

My review of Wall-E is up at The Simon as part of Consumables . Also in this edition: reviews of The Visitor , Aimee Mann's @#%&*! S...

ranking the pixar films

Vulture doesn't include Wall-E in its list as it ranks Pixar's eight other films. The bottom of the bunch, not surprisingly, is Ca...

top 10 protest songs of the 21st century

The staff of Under the Radar , which includes yours truly, selected the top 10 protest songs since 2000. You can find the results (and the r...

the palm beach story: reconsidered

Putting the finishing touches on its month-long Preston Sturges retrospective , Cinefamily will be screening The Palm Beach Story on Friday...

no age

Nouns is the full-length debut of the Los Angeles noise rock group No Age. It's one of my favorite records of the year so far.

jerry seinfeld on george carlin

It takes one comedian to describe another comedian's genius, and that's why Jerry Seinfeld's appreciation of George Carlin in t...

jason patric and samantha morton in expired

Expired is an intriguing romantic-comedy about two people who aren't right for each other at all: a piggish parking official and his pun...

battlestar galactica: revelations

The final episode before the mid-season hiatus was a damn good one. Now we have to wait until 2009 for more Battlestar . Dang it. My recap i...

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

Abigail Breslin and her fellow young actors are quite good in this touching live-action adaptation of the popular American Girl franchise. T...

get smart

Steve Carell is a decent Maxwell Smart, but the big-screen version of Get Smart is only so-so. My review is at Screen International .

my thoughts on jack black

The Biography Channel interviewed me as part of an hour-long special on Jack Black. I haven't seen the episode yet, so I have no idea ho...

megadeth bring the thrash

In the new Kerrang! , I go behind the scenes of Gigantour, the annual metal festival put together by Megadeth's Dave Mustaine. This year...

battlestar galactica: the hub

At a wedding this weekend, I had several conversations with Battlestar fans, and the consensus was that this final season has thus far been...

perez hilton speaks

Perez Hilton, the love-him-or-hate-him celebrity gossip king, sits down to talk about his annoying personal habits and the musicians he'...

you don't mess with the zohan

Adam Sandler returns with You Don't Mess With the Zohan . If you love gags about hummus and sex-crazed men who talk in funny accents, th...

war and peace: the epic movie

Starting Friday, LACMA will be showing the seven-hour version of War and Peace , the 1968 winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Is...

miss conception

Heather Graham survives the embarrassing debacle that is Miss Conception , but this romantic comedy is a must-miss. For all the gory details...

jamie lidell gets his groove on

Jim is the name of British soul singer Jamie Lidell's new album. The man does funk-lite right: My review appears at the Metro Times .

weezer have a new album

This is the third time the band has named one of its albums Weezer . (Before this, there was The Blue Album and The Green Album .) My review...

battlestar galactica: sine que non

Friday's episode of Battlestar had a lot of totally nutty things going on involving pregnant Cylons and dead cats. Thankfully, Bill Adam...

when did you last see your father?

Director Anand Tucker's When Did You Last See Your Father? , based on the memoir of poet Blake Morrison, sports a terrific lead performa...

r.e.m.'s mike mills speaks

Not to me, sadly. But the Chicago Tribune 's Mark Caro got R.E.M.'s bassist to talk about the band's writing process and why he...