TV on the Radio, those most excellent indie rockers of Brooklyn, NY, have released a free downloadable new song on the Touch and Go website...

Salon has put together a really terrific collection of clips , demonstrating how the White House disseminates "talking points" to ...

I've started getting these obnoxious spam "comments" here on the blog. It's just some random message followed by a link t...

Each year, the American Cinematheque hosts the Japanese Outlaw Masters series at the Egyptian Theater. I always try to catch at least a few...

Let's take a poll. Which of the following is the least appropriate response by a public figure to the disaster in the Gulf Coast? Here a...

Tomorrow evening, I'm seeing a double feature of Hideo Gosha samurai films at the Egyptian Theater. It's part of the American Cinem...

Dick Cheney, who has been MIA for most of the Hurricane Katrina debacle, finally surfaced the other day to let us know everything was going ...

The new album from Canadian pop supergroup The New Pornographers, Twin Cinemas , came out last week. And it's exceptionally good. It has...

We've got a live one here . The raving lunatics at Townhall.com have really outdone themselves. Their bigotry, hatred and self-righteou...

Comedian Louis CK does a hilarious bit about the song that inspired this blog title . You know that one? 1971 anti-establishment classic ...

Incomprehensible. That's the word righty blogger Andy Sullivan uses to describe this New York Times story . And for once, I totally ag...

A while back, discussing reality TV, I mentioned a major part of the reason I enjoyed shows like "Big Brother." They allow me to e...

Some photos have started popping up online from the new Bryan Singer Superman movie, Superman Returns . I liked hearing that Singer wanted t...

Before I worked in a video store, I worked in a West Hollywood office for a post-production company. I edited subtitle tracks to go along wi...

The popular favorite at this year's Venice Film Festival (regrettably located in Venice, Italy, rather than down the street from here i...

The other day, I called George Bush a sociopath, and a Presidential apologist defended his honor in the comments section. This man didn'...

Crash is, without a doubt, the worst film I have seen thus far in 2005. What an egregious oversimplification of the race issue in America. W...