Ebert's Little Rule Book (plus one of my own)

Roger Ebert has posted twenty iron clad rules for being a film critic . Many of them are obvious (don't talk, text, or be obnoxious in ...

The cost of love (Terrible horror films my wife has made me sit though)

Anyone can celebrate Halloween by making a list of the ten best horror films of all time. And most of those lists will have some combinatio...

"But I am the chosen one!" (2nd Harry Potter 6 trailer goes online)

It's a far more conventional trailer than the Tom Riddle-centric teaser from this summer. But it still looks incredibly polished and ve...

High School Musical 3 grosses $42 million (Scott Mendelson hides in shame)

Scott Mendelson is still hiding in shame and embarrassment. So today's quick box office mea culpa will be written by a guest writer. Me,...

How Marvel can do right - cast Jon Hamm as Captain America

I didn't get to see Mad Men till just before the first season came out on DVD/BluRay. Everything you've heard about the show is tr...

Marvel screws up again (Incredible Hulk deleted scenes)

I wrote back in June that, although I didn't care in the slightest for the Hulk 2.0 reboot , I was holding off complete judgment until I...

Review: Saw V (2008)

Saw V 2008 89 minutes rated R (grisly bloody violence and torture, language, nudity) by Scott Mendelson What we see right off the bat in Saw...

The Return of Box Office Bingo! (predictions for Oct 24-26)

It's been awhile since I did the whole weekend box office thing, but now that the holiday season has started more or less, it's time...

Nowhere to go but up, right? (Friday the 13th trailer

Friday The 13th Will it measure up to... uh... the groundbreaking cinematic masterpiece? Frankly, I have no objection to a remake of Friday...

Slumdog Millionaire gets an R (and why it may deserve it)

As always, Box Office Mojo has a rundown of the weekly MPAA ratings updates and as usual, there is a bit of news. Despite my research indic...

The (terrible) new Bond theme song, plus five better ones.

This isn't exactly new news, but the new Bond theme is out and it's not very good. Worse, it's very unmemorable. To be fair, m...

TV Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

I was a bend-over-backward to be fair defender of this August's Star Wars: Clone Wars movie. It was never meant to be Episode VII and i...

And now for something positive - Entertainment Weekly's Star Trek story

Entertainment Weekly has always been a stalwart Star Trek fan, and Star Trek covers have often graced their biggest selling issues. Their n...

Quantum Of Solace - most of my worst fears confirmed?

Five reviews have leaked out of the recent UK Quantum Of Solace screening. Two positive, two mixed, one very negative. What concerns me is...

Give This Man A Job - Michael Wincott

What Just Happened is opening today in limited release. The grim reviews mean that I won't be racing out to see it (why Magnolia didn...