Alan Alda

Searching for a Lifestyle That Fits in Wanderlust.

Tower Heist: Lobby vs. Penthouse

Stealing from the rich to ... oh, whatever. Funny is the message.

If Memory Serves: Pickled Beets

​If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining what's wrong with me.God how I despise pickled beets.You know, those slices of bright magenta mush that come from a can...or is it jar? Since I won't allow them in the flat, I've forgotten.My hatred ran so deep as a child ... More >>

What the What Was Rhett Miller Doing on 30 Rock Last Night?

No doubt your Today in Music News item's forthcoming. But till then, this bonus video from last night's so-so 30 Rock season ender, where, as Pete has pointed out a few times, a certain Old 97 made a cameo alongside the likes of Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Michael McDonald, Moby, Mary J. Blige, Cla ... More >>

Sources Say, "Meh"

Resurrecting the Champ gets journalism right, and that's a grind

Double Fault

Woody Allen's Match Point can't return serve

Crash and Yearn

Howard Hughes gets what he wants, in this case a fun and loving biopic

Chin Music

Henry Rollins takes no prisoners and wants no sympathy

After M*A*S*H

Larry Gelbart is one of TV's last great writers. So why can't he stay tuned?

Moldy Oldies

Kitchen Dog and DTC trot out a couple of creakies. One's Wild, one's Wilder--but only one's good.

Mel Sells Out

What Women Want is a better movie than this two-hour Nike advertisement

Letters

What Women Want is a better movie than this two-hour Nike advertisement

The big carnival

Costa-Gavras' latest is alternately ultra-real and stylized--and heavy-handed

Woody's melancholy baby

Everyone Says I Love You offers a New York where everyone sings show tunes

Independents' day

Small films have their big night in '96

'96 rewound

Good, but not that good

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

New baby blues

David O. Russell explores family fears through a screwball prism in Flirting With Disaster

Survivor, alive

Two decades after stardom, John Nitzinger tries to prove he ain't "D.O.A."