Tim Burton started his career in animation, first by making his own strange animated shorts, and later as an employee of Walt Disney Studios...

Watch this video of "Inside the Actor's Studio" host James Lipton on Conan O'Brien last week, reciting the lyrics to Kevi...

In the new film Firewall , criminals kidnap Harrison Ford's family in order to compel him to steal from his own bank. In last year'...

Steven Soderbergh has two modes as a filmmaker. He seems to fancy himself an avant-garde intellectual artiste , and indulges in experimental...

Just an update to this post from a few days ago , about this offensive attempt to smear UCLA professors by a group calling itself the "...

Unbelievable though it may seem, I actually watch a lot more movies than I get around to reviewing on the blog. When I first started Crushed...

Actually, I never even got the chance to go on "Jeopardy." I was on "Win Ben Stein's Money" once, as I believe I...

And, for the first time in blog history, I hit the trifecta...Three music posts in one day. And I gotta tell ya...it feels pretty good. Afte...

He just totally doesn't give a fuck at all any more. He doesn't care. He's got his money and had his fame, and he's basicall...

Found a couple of interesting items over at one of my favorite music blogs, Stereogum. FIRST , links to Quicktime and ASX streaming versio...

Here's the question: Did Rick Santorum at one time have a grip on reality, and has lost his grounding in the actual world in the moral v...

Fairly idiotic editorial from the LA Times yesterday . Some of you from my neck of the woods probably read the thing in the paper. This gu...

Brother of actor Sean Penn, son of actress Eileen Ryan (who starred with her sons in the extremely watchable 1986 James Foley crime thriller...

Here's yet another case of loony idiot bloggers taking a news story and twisting it to suit their bizarre personal agenda. The news stor...

Some of you may recall that former President Bill Clinton was a huge movie fan. He always cites High Noon as his favorite movie, which alwa...

I've seen some silly movies in my time...but the titular "plan" in Flightplan is one of the dumbest, most outrageous, least-p...

Initially, I wanted to see Thumbsucker in theaters because I read an interview in LA Weekly wherein writer/director Mike Mills bashed the h...

Of course, I would never write anything like that. At least, not without being ironic. Because it's stupid to compare any non-murderer w...

Full disclosure: For a short while, a few years back, I tried my hand at open-mic stand-up comedy. I never really made a go of it, because o...