A conflicted review of the 2018 movie Beautiful Boy, which is about a father who is losing his talented, beloved son to crystal meth.

He's here in the midst of it — right at the centre of the dance floor, robes hitched up to His knees to make it easy to spin...

Review of Country Strong, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw, a 2010 film about a country music star whose alcoholism is killing her.

A critical review of Matt Cullen's YouTube series Our Queer Life, which interviews LGBT sex workers, entertainers, Mormons, cowboys, prisone

Ten hilarious movies from the 90's and early 00's, with synopses and movie posters.

Part 2 of my series on the downfall of Jessica Kent, a prison reform and addiction / recovery YouTuber with over one million followers....

Part 1 of my two-part series on the downfall of Jessica Kent, an addiction recovery and prison reform YouTuber with over one million...

A subscriber who is a fellow writer and who suffers from a mental illness that isn't addiction emailed me with kind words about my piece...

Does photographer Mark Laita's YouTube channel "Soft White Underbelly," which chronicles the lives of addicts and others at the fringes...

Did someone in a celebrity's inner circle just respond to my criticism of her? Follow-up on my review of Cat Marnell's memoir How to...

"The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection." A hundred years into drug prohibition,...

Thoughts on Japanese horror comic book writer Junji Ito's story The Enigma of Amigara Fault. A panel from the story. Check out the full...

What to listen to when the heebie jeebies are getting the best of you. These tracks are transcendental, poetic, wistful, sublime: A detox...

Cat Marnell competing with yours truly for the Sloppiest Person of the Century Award (photo courtesy of Getty Images). *4/15/2024:...