John C. Reilly

Marshall Crenshaw, The Bottle Rockets

Bad Mommy

Tilda Swinton and her problem child in We Need to Talk About Kevin.

White People Problems

The parental rage of brownstone Brooklyn in Carnage.

The Film Issue

The parental rage of brownstone Brooklyn in Carnage.

The Film Issue

Looking back on the year in movies, and what's coming in 2012.

Your 2011 Fall/Winter Movie Preview - Part 2

​You know the drill: the fall movie season starts today, my pretties (my review of Contagion will be up soon...there's a reason it didn't make the preview). Yesterday we covered the first half of 2011's most anticipated upcoming releases, determined through a rigorous scientific analysis consi ... More >>

Last Night: Becoming Kinky At The Mucky Duck

Photos by Jason WolterJesse Dayton​Becoming Kinky: The World According To Kinky Friedman McGonigel's Mucky Duck March 28, 2011 Check out our a slideshow from the play's opening night. What a smooth, hilarious thing the opening and world premiere of Becoming Kinky: The World According To Kink ... More >>

Friday Night: Tim & Eric At Fitzgerald's

Photos by Jim Bricker​ Tim & Eric, Neil Hamburger FItzgerald's November 12, 2010 It took Aftermath a while to "get" Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim's Awesome Show (Great Job). We were a fan of their original Adult Swim offering, Tom Goes to the Mayor, but at first unfairly lumped in their m ... More >>

Momma's Boys

Peter Pan complexes collide in Cyrus.

Cyrus: Win Free Preview Passes To A Movie Where John C. Reilly Does Not Play A Cop

Face of a cop, apparently​Cyrus is a quirky comedy starring Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei and John C. Reilly.Reilly plays a guy whose romance with Tomei gets complicated by her relationship with Hill, a son who's kind of challenging.Reilly does not play a cop. Actually, he hasn't in a while, but starti ... More >>

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

One Vampire Movie That Really Sucks

Cirque du Freak tries to get in on the trend. Fails.

Thingamabob vs. Machine

Shane Acker creates an animated postapocalyptic hellscape in 9. WALL-E would never get out alive.

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 d ... More >>

Men Will Be Boys in Step Brothers

Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that

Supermarket Sweep in The Promotion

Male fulfillment and lack thereof

The Year In Film

Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

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

Geekology 101

Judd Apatow explains himself.

Year of the Dog

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

Farce of a Champion

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

One Toke Wonder

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

Crash Test Dummy

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

Scott Faingold Listens to Everything

And comes up with a random smattering of tortured musings

The Long Good-bye

Garrison Keillor's Prairie makes a fine pasture for Altman

The Impossible Bomb

Garrison Keillor's Prairie makes a fine pasture for Altman

Crash and Yearn

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

Fight Club

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

Sour Hours

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

Tango and Cash

Chicago dances its way through the origins of the celebrity crook

Mean Streets

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

A Friend in Need

The Good Girl transforms Jennifer Aniston into a crazy cracker everywoman

Deep Inside the Actors' Studio

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

Cumming Up

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

Storm Warning

Disaster film sinks under its own melodramatic weight

Short Cuts

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

Solid Delivery

Costner scores by striking out the schmaltz

Porn Yesterday

The hugely ambitious Boogie Nights revisits the sex-film world of the 1970s

Streep in the Wild

Move aside Sly and Arnold, Meryl's gone muscular