the st. louis rams as a microcosm of the nfl

Yes, a rare sports piece from yours truly. For Deadspin , I wrote an NFL season preview for the St. Louis Rams. Kinda. I mostly used the te...

hearting justin timberlake

It's no secret that I'm quite fond of the solo career of Mr. Justin Timberlake . I continue with the kind words in my latest Con...

hendrik hertzberg nails bush again

The New Yorker 's Hendrik Hertzberg has so continually criticized the Bush administration's failures in Iraq and elsewhere that it...

snakes on a plane

The wait is over: Snakes on a Plane is finally here. It's no work of art, but for a late-summer B-movie, it has a whole lot of charm .

seeing barry lyndon on the big screen

The Academy is hosting a screening of Stanley Kubrick's underrated Barry Lyndon on Monday, August 21. If you've never seen it -- or ...

writing pad

I'll be teaching a one-day seminar in Los Angeles on Saturday, October 14 as part of the Writing Pad. The topic? The art of reviewing. ...

please see the house of sand

It's an amazing film . If that doesn't sway you, my latest Consumables column also covers Miami Vice , Scoop , and Band of Horses.

there are worse things than mel gibson...

... like our current president , for instance.