Commentary Tracks

Three Glide writers debate the merits of ‘How I Met Your Mother”s controversial finale.

Love it or hate it, ‘Girls’ has a distinctive voice — one of the most raw and honest on TV.

This cinematic abortion stars ’90s rap face-palmer Vanilla Ice in the role of douchebag-on-motorcycle. It’s 50% ‘Footloose,’ 50% ‘The Wild One,’ and 100% everything we regret from the ’90s.

It’s a mob drama, dontchaknow?

Before placing your Oscar bets, check out this conversation between Stephen Mills and Mark Pursell. They provide their take on the awards, debating who will win, who should win, and who should have been nominated in the first place.

Leading into the glitzy Oscar season, John Keith and Brice Ezell take a look at one of the most acclaimed films of 2013, ‘American Hustle.’ Don’t let the Metascore fool you: not everyone is in love with David O. Russell’s take on the mysterious ABSCAM scandal.

This Hungarian disaster isn’t worth your time — or your $31.50 for a DVD copy.

Since we’re in the spirit with all these ‘Twin Peaks’ rumors, here are the 10 best scenes from this surreal, thought-provoking, cancelled-far-too-soon series.

For the misanthrope, the cynic, the atheist, the solitary, and the anti-consumerist among us, there are some “Christmas” movies which encapsulate the spirit of the season while not shying away from its dark underbelly.

Our relationship with art changes over time. In our instantaneous iPhone age, we don’t live with albums or movies or TV shows or books like we used to. With Re-Reviews, we re-explore our relationship with a piece of pop culture — and how that relationship evolves over time. We dismiss some art unfairly — or […]

If you are in a position to egregiously waste 118 minutes of your existence, then I invite you to view ‘Battlefield Earth.’

You might get a little kick out of the slapsticky ‘Home Alone’-type ninja action, but the lousy dialogue, ridiculous premise, and forgettable performances deserved to kill the ‘3 Ninjas’ franchise.

Stephen Mills explores this action-adventure comedy, which subverted audience and critic expectations, avoiding the obvious Brad Pitt-Julia Roberts romance in favor of a more unusual plot.

Mark Pursell takes a closer look at this schizophrenic Bollywood trainwreck.

Ryan Poynter takes a closer look at this often maligned ’90s gender-bender.

Ryan takes a closer look at the “horror monster musical” ‘The Horror of Party Beach.’

In this installment of “Back Off, Jerk,” Charles J. Moss defends the Kevin James film comedy ‘Paul Blart: Mall Cop.’

With this week’s “Scraping the Barrel,” we take a closer look at #98 on the IMDB Bottom 100, ‘Plump Fiction.’

There’s a fine line between camp and class, between low-brow and high-brow. Have you ever been that person who’s constantly defending a movie or TV show or album that everybody else seems to despise? With “Back Off, Jerk,” Hidden Track writers tell the rest of the universe to wake up and stop hatin’. This week, […]

In this edition of “Checkin’ ‘Em Twice,” we tackle 10 cringe-worthy TV/music crossovers.