fair enough; I stand corrected.

According to the review:

"whose innovations had devolved into art-house clichés well before Alex In Wonderland began shooting"

Totally agree. SOME LOUD THUNDER was one of my favorites of the decade. Initially I didn't care much for their first album, but then hearing SLT made me go back to it, and I appreciated their sound more. If their debut was basically a loving, if derivative catalog all their influences, SLT sounds like that band making…

The nice thing about that place is Mary Ann gets in the hammock with you.

I've never quite understood what Marty did to get fired (besides being friends with Flea) - I mean, he faxes something and then gets fired immediately. It's been a while since I've seen it… what happened?

Eddie Murphy is a credit to the acting industry. While all the bozos and bimbos chuckle it up on the screen and we're supposed to laugh until tears fill our eyes, all I get are the tears. We need more movies like THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN and less stupid trash by Sean Penn, Matt Damon, and Javier Bardem. Murphy is…

In Tecmo Super Bowl the QB of the Bears was Jim Harbaugh, who was god awful. You may be referring to QB Eagles, who was the 2nd best player in the game besides Bo.

totally agree about Bad Haircut, and I liked Abstinence Teacher better than others (though I understand why some didn't get into it). I love everything TP does.

Here is a picture of my bicep!

James Franco needs to give up on movie and TV acting (he's worthless) and stick to performance art and soap opera acting. He's a jack-of-all trades, master of none, competent at few: kind of like Deion Sanders, who had no business ever wearing a glove or carrying a bat, and was the kind of flamboyant idiot (just not…

The Thin Man is the worst franchise since the Cincinnati Bengals. People say Marvin Lewis is a nice guy and a good coach,but they only say he's a good coach because he's a nice guy. He couldn't even win with Carson Palmer, who - by the way - has always been overrated. Not that it matters. Bengals fans seem content…

Listen up Larry the Cable Guy fans. Your guy is primed to fail. When it comes to the moment for him to shine, he'll either strike out or loft up an airball. He's all small moments and nothing in the clutch. I wrote three books about the superlative Dallas Cowboys in the 1990s, so I know something about clutch, and…

A lot of pundits are saying that Josh Brolin will have a breakout year. I'm not buying it. What will happen is that Brolin will be mediocre once again, and his glowing branch of supporters will say he's "poised for greatness." How long can you be poised for greatness, and consistently underperform, before these…

Nick Nolte is nothing compared to the personality, perseverance, and power of the 1995 Dallas Cowboys. That team not only showed us how to play, but how to live. All these whiners and prima donnas in the NFL today (I'm talking to you Ocho Cinco) could learn a thing or two from Russell Maryland and Darryl "Moose"…

I'm kind of fond of THE PICK UP ARTIST. Molly Ringwald has all the charisma of a wax sculpture of Molly Ringwald, but at its best moments it has an energy and amoral sensibility that suggests it could have been much better.

It doesn't look like anyone has said it yet, but the original James Caan version is awesome: it's intense, often funny, sometimes terrifying. I highly recommend it: I think it comes on On Demand from time to time. It's of a piece with (and in many ways the best of)  other Toback projects about obsessives fueled by…

This post is sadder than Ocho Cinco's dancing! Really! I haven't seen this bad a post since they condemned Veterans Stadium. You've got a lot of work to do if you ever want to make it to the big time. Still, I'm betting against you!