A writer lives the sad truth like anybody else; he just files a report on it. That's about the whole film Naked Lunch summarized right ...

The most popular name for dogs in America is once again Max. I guess there's nothing surprising there...I knew a guy with a dog named Ma...

How about a double shot of stupid for a Friday evening. I'm talking, of course, about Fox News' resident chimp John Gibson commenti...

A man has petitioned the US Board of Geographic Names to rename Mount Diablo in Oakley, California. Cause, you know, he doesn't like t...

The old British film industry always struck me as kind of charming. There were all these little production houses, like Ealing Studios or Ha...

I have come down with writer's block. Obviously, not blogging writer's block. I never get blogging writer's block. If I can'...

Before I get going, let me give big props to the always-entertaining blog Slack LaLane for this link: This is amazing. Sometimes the Intern...

Astute readers will remember this post , in which I discussed the odd case of a finger appearing in a woman's 99 cent Wendy's chili....

I was supposed to go see the new Woody Allen film Melinda and Melinda this evening at the Arclight. So I'm on my way there, driving up...

It's Alive!!!! Seriously, Britney Spears is preggers , folks. I couldn't let that incident slide by without a blog post. Plus, I ju...

Years ago, my father and I took a trip to New York City. While enjoying a pre-dinner drink at the world famous Harry's Bar, my father o...

No, this is not a review of the movie Cemetary Man . In fact, there's no easy way for me to even watch the movie again and review it fo...

I couldn't believe it when I first looked at the DVD box for Hotel Rwanda . Rated PG-13? It's a movie about genocide, a film set aga...

I'm not going to take too long dismissing this one. I want to watch Hotel Rwanda in a little bit here, so I don't have all day. The...

Now here's a weird one. It's a French film directed by the legendary Louis Malle, who was a contemporary of the French New Wave gian...

Technical glitches have got me down. You may have noticed The Inertia went completely offline today for a while, due to further difficultie...

Can you believe, I couldn't find a single usable frame from this movie as illustration for this article? It has only happened with one ...

What's that? You want to read a column written by the Internet's dumbest man? A man who makes Bill O'Reilly seem measured and ...