the express

The Express will be comfort food for lots of guys who love sports movies, no matter how generic. Elsewhere in Consumables , I review Blindn...

bob dylan or amy adams?

I'm Not There or Enchanted ? I say try 'em both. The two films lead my latest Consumables column , which also features reviews of Ma...

bob dylan on film

In L.A. Weekly , I discuss the movies Dylan has made about his own legacy: Eat the Document , Renaldo and Clara , and Masked and Anonymous ....

writing pad, lesson two: reviewing as storytelling

Greil Marcus is brilliant at taking an album and turning its songs, lyrics, and themes into a narrative -- he reviews the work by presenting...

bob dylan

Modern Times isn't up to the level of Dylan's other recent albums. Sorry, it's true. Elsewhere in Consumables, I go nuts for Ne...