How do you build a name for yourself by trying your best not to succeed? You may try and ask Paul Westerberg, the force who lead The Replacements, one of the best and most creative bands of the '80s American indie rock scene.
There's a lot of humor to be mined from the idea of Hollywood coastal elites descending on a small town to make a movie, and in December of 2000, David Mamet's State and Main executed that formula flawlessly.
There was once a time, albeit brief, when Steven Seagal was actually both cool and a plausible movie star; with the best of his run being 1992's 'Under Siege.'
'Moonlight' is probably best-known for that now infamous Best Picture debacle, but it deserves much better than that. More than anything else, it tells the type of story that movies that compete for, and win Oscars, very rarely tell.
It's hard to think of another non-musical film in which the score is the best-known element, but 40 years on, 'Chariots of Fire' still holds up and is deserving of a reappraisal on its merits as an overall great film.
'American Graffiti' is a significant film for many reasons, and represented the last non-'Star Wars' movie that George Lucas ever directed.
The early 2000s were a very different time. That's one of the only explanations for the existence of 'Freddy Got Fingered' ― the unreconstructed comedic id of Tom Green.
When it arrived 20 years ago, 'Lost in Translation' forever changed the careers of its three principals: Sofia Coppola, Bill Murray, and Scarlett Johansson.
Released 10 years ago, 'The Dark Knight Rises' might not be as highly regarded as its 2008 predecessor, but its still a very good superhero film and easily better than every one that followed.
Barry Sonnenfeld's 'Get Shorty', which arrived in theaters 25 years ago last month, was one of the most purely entertaining studio comedies of the 1990s.
Released 15 years ago, 'Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story' fell a bit short in delivering consistent laughs but it was incredibly great at pointing out the clichés of the music biopic genre.
Richard Linklater's decades spanning 'Before Trilogy' is widely considered a contemporary film classic, even making it into The Criterion Collection, and for very good reason.
If there ever was an artist that would perfectly embody an artists' artist and critical darling, it would be David Ackles, whose short career spawned one of music's most highly regarded albums.
While Laura Nyro’s name may raise eyebrows even with some of the most ardent followers of music, her peers (many of whom covered her songs) and critics count her among the best to ever do it.
On Earth Day 30 years ago there was a star-studded prime time special known as 'The Earth Day Special.' It was weird as hell, full of big name celebrities, and even bigger levels of cringe, but, it’s indisputable that we’d all be in a better spot right now if we’d listened Bette Midler.
'Bull Durham' arrived amid a wave of important baseball movies and 2 years before another Costner-led baseball film, but it was a very different take on the game than the others.
As was the case with his son Jeff, Tim Buckley had both an incredible songwriting talent and an even more incredible, multi-octave voice. Also like his son, he's become a cult icon in his own right.
Serge Gainsbourg will always be remembered as a giant in French music, and his legacy is truly one-of-a-kind, full of musical experimentation, urban legends, and of course, scandal.
Originally released 20 years ago now, Alfonso Cuaron's 'Y Tu Mama También' is among the more one-of-a-kind films to have been released this century; a sex-filled coming-of-age road film that's so much more.
Released 20 years ago, the Eddie Griffin-led 'Undercover Brother' arrived as a loving tribute and parody of '70s blaxploitation films; consistently funny with one of the best soundtracks since the turn of the century.
35 years after its release and 7 years after his untimely death, Robin Williams' 'A Night at the Met' is still one of the greatest stand-up comedy specials of all time.
There have been very few men who have helped shaped modern thinking like Stewart Brand. From coining the phrase "personal computer" to essentially inventing the blogoshpere long before there was such thing as a blog, Brand is the poster boy for the "freethought" '60s.
25 years ago 'Face/Off' arrived, featuring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in some of their most luxurious over-acting of their careers, a ridiculous plot, and impossible action sequences.
Just who was this blind, six-foot tall composer, musician, instrument inventor who dressed in homemade Viking garb and went under the name of Moondog?