By Ali Arikan I think it was Lester Bangs who said listening to Pink Floyd is like wrestling with shit. Him or Spiro Agnew. Whoever it was, they were right. It’s a band I tried to like for a long time—“everyone says they’re great, so they must be�—but I have finally come to the dawning r...

2008 has come and gone, and so have the movie stars of it. Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man and Tropic Thunder? Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire? Please, that’s old news my friends. In a country that has replaced the motto of “land of the free, home of the brave� with “make sure you Tivo it,...

There’s no doubt about it: 2008 was a memorable year. We had the second biggest movie of all time rip through box office records. We had a huge slate of CGI flicks, and many of them quite good – one might even say they were the best of the year. Superheroes rocked at the box office, and we got t...

Here we are, January 1, 2009, and as I look out the window at the snowy trees up Cypress, it's nice to take some time to reflect on the year 2008 that has sped by. January I started 2008 on the West Coast, and then flew back to NYC where I plunged back into work and fun times with friends. Mount...

First my father-in-law, a tough old cob who had previously been declared dead on two occasions (Once after being crushed in a mine disaster, and once after being shot in the face with a shotgun. Seriously.) was finally brought down by age, black lung, and the lingering effects of his injuries. Then ...

We're looking forward to a 2009 as good as you helped make 2008. To prove it, come on back to Jalopnik right after the ball drops tonight for a very high horsepower gift!...

Editor’s Note: As part of our Year in Review, we’ve asked our resident DVDologist Brian Gibson to lay down his 15 favorite releases from 2008. For more of Brian’s DVD picks be sure to check out his DVDs I Bought This Week column every Tuesday. It’s that time of year again, th...

Every year there are films that somehow miss the moviegoer’s mark, receiving less exposure than a Cathy Bates sex tape. While there is good reason for us to avoid a sensual second helping of Misery with Bates, these films deserve better than to be relegated to second-hand status. The equivalent of...

Here is your year-end recap of "The Year in Politics," as half-remembered by a tired drunk, on New Year's Eve. We didn't make it a "list" or give it an "angle." Hero of the Year In October, a young McCain volunteer named Ashley Todd told police in Pittsburgh that she'd been savagely beaten and robbe...

Holy hyperbole, folks. It is time to do the big top ten list. As is customary this time of year, it is my duty (and honor) to present you my list of the Ten Best Films of 2008. And in the past year we’ve seen an interesting range of films, have we not? We slowly dredged through the early month...