A new feature to the Web site: If you'll look down the right-hand margin of the site, you'll see a new feature called "scores".

Because I don't always have time to review the movies I watch or the music I listen to right when I consume, I'll pop a grade up in this area. If there is a review, I'll link to it. Typically when I assign a grade to a movie, it will stick; however, music grades can vary.

Sometimes it takes a bit for a new album to sink in. Take Paul McCartney's latest, "Memory Almost Full." Upon first listen, I noticed a tone of musical allusions to The Beatles as well as a mix of what I'd call throwaway music.

However, it was pretty good overall. Still, I'm not convinced that I won't love it, so I gave it a B+ to start. In general, I recommend highly anything that gets any variation of an A.

In fact, if I give something an A+, I am practically pleading with you to watch it or listen to it.

Anything in the B range is a recommendation, but I acknowledge imperfections in both the work as well as, possibly, my assessment of it.

Depending on the movie, for example, anything that gets a C is likely a thumbs-down. However, it depends on the expectations I had for the film. "The Queen" was hyped. It was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. Helen Mirren won an Academy Award.

Yet, when I watched it, I wasn't impressed.

It looked and felt like a TV movie. Seriously. Mirren was very good as QEII, but the rest of the movie was quite pedestrian. In truth, it was really a B, but -- man -- it was just so disappointing given all the high praise I had heard about it. Therefore, it got a C+.

Anything that gets a D is definitely a thumbs-down, but in that mark is an acknowledgment that it wasn't all bad or that there were a couple of funny moments.

I haven't seen many F movies, actually, so it likely won't be used all that often. I have a very impatient habit of turning off movies the minute I know I'll hate it, the minute I know it sucks or not watching them at all.

On tap for this week -- "The World According to Garp" and "Jesus Camp."