will ferrell

The former Saturday Night Live comedian is pretty funny in his new film, Talladega Nights . If that's not enough to entice you, Sacha ...

the motel

Writer-director Michael Kang's debut feature, about a young boy stuck working in his mom's dingy motel, might sound dull, but it...

little miss sunshine

Steve Carell is quite good in this comedy-drama . Also in Consumables, I discuss A Scanner Darkly , Thom Yorke's The Eraser , and that s...

the endless misery in the middle east

Remember how those who opposed the Iraq War said we shouldn't overextend our military on the off-chance that, who knows, we might need o...

metallica: "enter sandman"

Although my article profiling the making of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" ran in Blender a year ago, the piece is just now beco...

people like johnny depp as a pirate

The Pirates of the Caribbean sequel is making a ton of dough, but isn't so good. Elsewhere in my Consumables column , I tackle Superman...

you, me and dupree

I thought Wedding Crashers was a pretty smart "new dude" comedy, but You, Me and Dupree demonstrates that the genre is far from ...