Marah is back in fighting form on If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry
The Farrelly brothers swing straight and hit the sweet spot
How The Vanished's "My Favorite Scar" became my favorite guilty pleasure
In Good Company is wonderfully funny, a bit sad and unmistakably real
Bridget Jones is betrayed by a dumb, dull sequel
After years of being a musical punch line, Captain Kirk sets his new CD on stun
Recycled Books Records CDs
Sunday, August 29
The Strange Boys are inexperienced and raw. Thank God.
Why Jables is a "cross between a lightning bolt and James Dean"
The teacher, not the teaching, makes this School of Rock
With a handful of artists, "classic rock" is not a pejorative
A second chance to learn everything About a Boy
The best was hard to find, harder still to ignore
Titan Comics
How two American filmmakers made a very British Boy
Grant grows from a badly drawn Boy to a man in charming fashion
March 11
The greatest-hits format has fallen out of favor, but sometimes the results are pure gold
Almost Famous special edition crammed full of goodies
Bleed American (DreamWorks)
It's hard to fall in love with America's Sweethearts
Renée Zellweger nervously Joneses for romance
This year's lineup of 10 best is so much better than the rest of the year's trash, it's criminal
John Cusack's romantic comedy about a man... and his record collection
Two Hispanic artists bridge that ugly gap between "us" and "them," and not because they're trying
