Perhaps you know him best as the whimpery gay dude in rehab in the bizarre Sandra Bullock vehicle 28 Days? Perhaps you know him as the creepy murderer in television's messy yet underappreciated scifi body-swapper mystery "Dollhouse." Or maybe you know him most from the very best episodes of the very best TV show, "Strangers with Candy," when he played the leader of the cult that wanted to "sit at the welcome table." As Steve the Pirate in Dodgeball? That dude from "Firefly"? The pedophile on "CSI"? I would call him the man of a thousand faces but he really has just one face and it's magical! Oh, Alan [...]

Remember the movie Garden State from a few years ago that was supposed to be about New Jersey, and was for a while, and was pretty good for like an hour or so, but then it got so bad and fake and sappy at the end that it ended up being more about somewhere else? Hollywood, I guess? Of course you remember. The soundtrack changed your life.

That movie really ticked me off. More than it should have, probably—like I said, it had some good things going for it. But because I’m from New Jersey, and have an emotional attachment to the place, I find myself [...]

Listen, I wasn't expecting Shakespeare, or Scream 3. But Anthony Lane is correct that Due Date makes Planes, Trains and Automobiles appear akin to Little Dorrit. This is not really a good movie! And I knew it wouldn't be but how delightful are Robert Downey Jr. and Zack Galdsfkdsfinas';? I love them, in a really pure, if somewhat dicy, way. You can't watch Home for the Holidays or Bored to Death without just adoring them both in a complicated manner—they're like brothers you don't want to be locked in a room with but you sure do love recounting their glittery, antisocial exploits after they pass out. Something—you know? [...]