'Pitt' of despair
Thoughts on two medical season finales.
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Killing the curse with aplomb
He's done it again.
Mama mia, here-a we go again
I truly don't know what people think they want from a Super Mario movie.
U Talkin' Tacos 2 Me?
Republishing a conversation with the proprietor of Trejo's Tacos.
Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith on chemistry
Revisiting an old interview with the NBA on TNT crew
Pixar films, ranked
Surely no one will take issue with this ranking.
'Hoppers' is a grand return to form for Pixar
The animation giant's latest is also one of its funniest.
Team USA goes down in flames
America turned itself into villains in the WBC. Well, everywhere else, too, but we're talking about the WBC.
My top movies and performances of 2025 (Part 2)
Wrapping up the best of last year before Big Oscar Sunday.
My top movies of 2025 (Part 1)
What a collection of pictures!
Michael Showalter interview
Sometimes you get to interview one of your comedy heroes.
Revisiting 2025's two best movies
'Sinners,' 'One Battle After Another,' and community.
television
Scrubbing back in
In which I make the case for Bill Lawrence in the television creator pantheon.
movie review
The two movie marketing white flags
How to make trailers when everything is going really well.
movie review
'Goat' is proof the sports movie formula almost always works
Even a perfectly average sports movie is still a sports movie ... if you do it right.
movies
The time I interviewed Holly Hunter
I used to be able to do extremely fun things for work, to the extent that they all blurred together.
television
Now that's what I call 'The Muppet Show'
Congrats to Seth Rogen for sinking the layup people have been clamoring for for decades.
sports
Every golf tournament should be as chaotic as the Phoenix Open
I once went to the most chaotic and fun golf tournament in the U.S.. No, not Holey Moley.
movie review
The myth of the Hero Cop
"The Rip," "Mercy" and cops that have never existed.
movie review
Give us the trash
We live in a trash pile and we must feed on the trash. It has been in woefully short supply.
hbo
We are so back
Big ups to HBO for bringing television back into our lives when we need it most.
baseball
A very old interview with Buster Posey
A timely look back at a conversation I had with one of my favorite athletes.
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This thing is barely on
Bradley Cooper's movie tackles divorce, the latest human experience he doesn't understand.
Falling in love with Minneapolis in just 3 days
Some words about a trip I took some time ago.