Where's the love for Mud?  Yeah, it's not perfect (could've done without the shootout), but the performances are so good (from the kids to McConaughey to a seemingly miscast Reese Witherspoon), and the direction is so assured, that I was with it from beginning to end, completely glued.  Is there already a bit of a…

The killer in The Call actually scalps his victims for reasons so hilariously absurd I can't even go into them, so there you go.

You could rename this column "Dispatches from Christian Slater's Purgatory" and no one would bat an eye.  I was actually sitting a row in front of him at an Angels game a couple of years ago.  He was getting heckled pretty badly by some jackasses a couple of rows back, saying that they thought he was dead, "Alone in…

I'm proud yet ashamed to admit I was one of the 20 people who saw this in theaters.  Had the day off work and I just kinda picked it because I was at the theater and it was starting in five minutes, didn't really know a lot about it.  The most polite way to describe it is a complete mind fuck.  It makes no sense from…

It would be called The Family Man, also star Tea Leoni, and have a disturbing dearth of big butts and kidnapped daughters.

I teach a film course, and every semester I make my students write a paragraph on the worst film they've ever seen and why, and I always ask the same question you pose when I go over them in class.  And when I asked a girl if she honestly thought Jack and Jill was going to be a good movie before she watched it, she…

I teach a film course, and every semester I make my students write a paragraph on the worst film they've ever seen and why, and I always ask the same question you pose when I go over them in class.  And when I asked a girl if she honestly thought Jack and Jill was going to be a good movie before she watched it, she…

The Apparition was the longest 80 minutes I ever spent in a theater.  Nothing happens!  NOTHING! 

The Apparition was the longest 80 minutes I ever spent in a theater.  Nothing happens!  NOTHING! 

The best part of Killing Them Softly is when Gandolfini is in the middle of his second long-winded monologue in the motel room and Brad Pitt tells him to shut the hell up.  That just made me happy.

The best part of Killing Them Softly is when Gandolfini is in the middle of his second long-winded monologue in the motel room and Brad Pitt tells him to shut the hell up.  That just made me happy.

Madagascar 3 was balls-to-the-wall bonkers.  It felt like the head honchos at Dreamworks told the animators just to do whatever the hell they wanted, because even they didn't give a shit anymore, and they ended up with probably the most entertaining animated film of the year.  Seriously, if this walked away with the…

Madagascar 3 was balls-to-the-wall bonkers.  It felt like the head honchos at Dreamworks told the animators just to do whatever the hell they wanted, because even they didn't give a shit anymore, and they ended up with probably the most entertaining animated film of the year.  Seriously, if this walked away with the…

I think what's most shocking is that Lions Gate bankrolled the film, viewed the end product, and still thought to themselves, "Hey, let's release this in 2,000 theaters just as the summer moviegoing season is getting underway."  We talk about how shitty it is that it takes forever for smaller indie films to make their…

I think what's most shocking is that Lions Gate bankrolled the film, viewed the end product, and still thought to themselves, "Hey, let's release this in 2,000 theaters just as the summer moviegoing season is getting underway."  We talk about how shitty it is that it takes forever for smaller indie films to make their…

I gotta say, I rather hate the idea of the three former contestants coming back for another go-round.  It would bother me less if we didn't just have a Top Chef All-Stars season.  Were they not good enough for that?  Unavailable?  Throwing them in with 15 newbies takes the attention away from them, and the whole point…

I gotta say, I rather hate the idea of the three former contestants coming back for another go-round.  It would bother me less if we didn't just have a Top Chef All-Stars season.  Were they not good enough for that?  Unavailable?  Throwing them in with 15 newbies takes the attention away from them, and the whole point…

Yes!  I distinctly remember that one scaring the hell out of me as a kid.  The demon also threw the father's lunchbox out of his hands, and they later mentioned that the demon used to manifest itself in the kids' room, appearing in the small space between the open door and the wall as a glowing, fiery entity.  Shit, I…

Yes!  I distinctly remember that one scaring the hell out of me as a kid.  The demon also threw the father's lunchbox out of his hands, and they later mentioned that the demon used to manifest itself in the kids' room, appearing in the small space between the open door and the wall as a glowing, fiery entity.  Shit, I…

I assume he's sleeping with all of them.  It's that Tolstoy charm I've read so much about.