Cameron Crowe is certainly someone whose (until recently) sparkling critical reputation has always befuddled me. I'll confess, I thought Almost Famous was really good. Emotionally engaging, even. Then Jimmy Fallon shows up. It was all downhill from there.

Took me about a week to read. It's definitely one you can pound through in a weekend, provided you have a strong stomach…

Compared to Blood Meridian, which I read a few weeks before cracking this one, Geek Love was positively uplifting…

Look, if Donnie Darko and The Big Lebowski qualify as cult movies without complaint, then Team America should not raise any eyebrows. I mean, the way it structurally vivisects and parodies Joseph Campbell/Hollywood blockbuster conventions is pure genius (A movie like Mission:Impossible III follows certain beats of…

As much as I love Statham, and I sincerely do, even I must confess that his career seems destined for the same European-Video-Store-Hell where Seagal and Van Damme currently reside.

Ah yes, it was missing the refined, complex textures of Crank 1. . .

Best animated film ever. Simple as that.

Oh god, please yes

Urmm…"Yiddish Policemans' Union" is a very clever book, but structurally it IS very safe, and it's not as satisfying when you're done with it as when you're in the midst of it.