Email Author Tim Grierson

2007 Stories by Tim Grierson

• Good Luck Chuck

  published September 11, 2007

  No matter how hard Hollywood tries, Dane Cook is never going to be adorable. Though he’s known for his mildly edgy standup, someone in... More >>

• Men at Work

  published September 4, 2007

  When the main character of a film or play is a salesman, he's never just a salesman. Whether it's Arthur Miller's Death of a... More >>

• Closing Escrow

  published August 14, 2007

  One of the pleasures of home-hunting is not knowing what you might see once you walk through the front door of an open house. With Closing... More >>

• 'Vacancy'

  published April 10, 2007

  Perfectly suited to the shabby delights of the hometown drive-in theaters of yester-year, director Nimród Antal's creepy cockroach of a... More >>

• 'Memory'

  published March 13, 2007

  The easiest way to summarize the pulpy, cable-movie ludicrousness of Memory is to mention that it stars Billy Zane. Ironic and slightly... More >>

• 'Two Weeks'

  published February 20, 2007

  Despite its sappy digressions and occasional tonal inconsistency, 2005's underrated The Family Stone displayed an unpredictable energy that... More >>

• '2006 Academy Award Nominated Shorts'

  published February 6, 2007

  Despite brief running times, great short films can evoke universal sentiments just as powerfully as their feature-length counterparts.... More >>