Subject: John C. Reilly

• Tango and Cash

  Chicago dances its way through the origins of the celebrity crook

  January 2, 2003

• Streep in the Wild

  September 29, 1994

• As Oscar Nominations Loom, The Five Worst Best (Recent) Pictures

  The paradox of the Oscars is that while nobody outside of the incestuous parallel reality of Hollywood really cares about them, we still find ourselves drawn to the spectacle like illiterates to a Rock of Love marathon. The nominations for the 81st Academy Awards will be announced this week, so we decided to take a look at some of the least-worthy Best Picture winners, narrowing it down to more recent offenders. (Yeah, like any of you have seen Cavalcade.)5. Rocky (1976)Plot in Ten Words or Less

  January 19, 2009

• Porn Yesterday

  October 16, 1997

• Deep Inside the Actors' Studio

  A lack of perspective crashes this Anniversary Party in the Hollywood Hills

  June 21, 2001

• Men Will Be Boys in Step Brothers

  July 24, 2008

• Supermarket Sweep in The Promotion

  Male fulfillment and lack thereof

  June 12, 2008

• The Year In Film

  Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

  December 27, 2007

• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

  Sending up the biopic, this film sells cheap laughs, lame cameos and lifeless Cox

  December 20, 2007

• Geekology 101

  Judd Apatow explains himself.

  June 7, 2007

• Year of the Dog

  Mike White's low-key directorial debut makes nice while slyly nipping at suburban America

  April 26, 2007

• Farce of a Champion

  December 14, 2006

• One Toke Wonder

  Tenacious D gets the band back together, and...and... and ?

  November 23, 2006

• Crash Test Dummy

  The loudest, boldest comic actor around takes an endless victory lap

  August 3, 2006

• Scott Faingold Listens to Everything

  And comes up with a random smattering of tortured musings

  June 8, 2006

• The Long Good-bye

  Garrison Keillor's Prairie makes a fine pasture for Altman

  June 8, 2006

• The Impossible Bomb

  December 22, 2005

• Crash and Yearn

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

  December 23, 2004

• Fight Club

  Sandler and Nicholson yell at each other, and it's unpleasant

  April 10, 2003

• Sour Hours

  Streep, Moore and Kidman reveal that it's sad to be sad

  January 16, 2003

• Mean Streets

  Martin Scorsese looks at the roots of New York's violence, with mixed results

  December 19, 2002

• A Friend in Need

  The Good Girl transforms Jennifer Aniston into a crazy cracker everywoman

  August 15, 2002

• Cumming Up

  Is he a writer, director, actor or...sex symbol? Um, yes--and more

  June 21, 2001

• Storm Warning

  Disaster film sinks under its own melodramatic weight

  June 29, 2000

• Short Cuts

  Director borrows from the Robert Altman stylebook to create his Magnolia "masterpiece"

  January 6, 2000

• Solid Delivery

  Costner scores by striking out the schmaltz

  September 16, 1999

• Thingamabob vs. Machine

  September 10, 2009

• One Vampire Movie That Really Sucks

  October 22, 2009