Humanizing The Vacuum

The second film in a row in which he had no hand in its writing, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises is also the second consecutive fil...

In honor of the release of Springsteen's latest 4.5 star masterpiece Magic , here's a little treat. One of the more interesting cove...

(The film, that is. Ask me about cruising on your own time.) (1) Eric Henderson is right-on in admiring how the film's raunch sticks a ...

Occasionally I remind myself that I was an English guy and fiction writer before a pop critic. With eMusic launching an audiobook section I...

Fifteen of my favorite songs of this not-yet-concluded year, in no order except which I'd rather hear right now . Amerie - "Crush...

Like the Mick Jagger of Dirty Work or Richard Nixon on the day of his second inaugural, Kanye West envisions conspiracies between dumb-ass...

Angry and frightened by the Larry Craig nonsense, one of our former student editors came out to the university community – hell, the world...

Watching Away From Her , the audience isn't supposed to believe in Julie Christie as actress; writer-director Sarah Polley uses her as...

Now here's one collection I can look forward to. My birthday's in just two months. Please start a charity drive. As big an influenc...

There are scenes in Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley that recall Goya and Bergman's Shame -- harrowing illustrations o...

I've been suspicious of one-named thrushes since Robyn started scoring points beyond the Top 40 crowd (hell, since we confused appreciat...