Baseball, Bikes and Body Snatchers
How many big-budget rock and roll movies were made by Canadian animators in the early 1980s? How many of them featured at least one cast member from SCTV, the voice-over work of journeyman Don Francks, and a song by Cheap Trick? Well, at least two. Heavy Metal is the quintessential animat ... More >>
Sometimes you watch a movie like Tampopo or Chocolat and can't help but want to eat everything on the screen. But there is another type of movie food too, the kind that doesn't actually exist. Some of these are from the future, some are disgusting, and some could potentially destroy the planet. With ... More >>
Doug Stanhope, Elayne Boosler, Merrill Markoe and other standups on the pitfalls of comedy
Still from The Gray Kid's "Happy Feet video" It doesn't take Daniel Baldwin long to tell a joke that punchlines with philosophical rhetoric on the necessities of an on-set blow-job. That he plays the priest in the day's music video only makes it funnier. That the day's setting is the American Appar ... More >>
The holiday season is plentiful - if not bursting - with Christmas films, most of which are heaped upon us in early succession just like everything else tinsel and mistletoe. And you can't say there isn't variety to account for differing tastes: It's A Wonderful Life for your traditionalists; A Ch ... More >>
Geekology 101
Essential DVDs for a personalized TV Land
Jerry Stahl on Hollywood’s first scandal
The Happy Life and Inevitable Death of Freaks and Geeks
The Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Turns 5
Yanking Matthew Margolis' chain
