The "joke" of this Mapple/Funtendo Zii stuff is supposed to lie in the audacity of coming up with something so obviously lame and actually going through with it. It's meant as sort of a game between writers and audience; you aren't supposed to laugh at the wordplay itself but at how knowingly terrible it is. Works the…

The "joke" of this Mapple/Funtendo Zii stuff is supposed to lie in the audacity of coming up with something so obviously lame and actually going through with it. It's meant as sort of a game between writers and audience; you aren't supposed to laugh at the wordplay itself but at how knowingly terrible it is. Works the…

Please, if Lohan has a shred of self-awareness she knew what to expect from this. She's content now with just getting attention instead of respect, and as far as that goes this project was a success for her.

Please, if Lohan has a shred of self-awareness she knew what to expect from this. She's content now with just getting attention instead of respect, and as far as that goes this project was a success for her.

Yes. I laughed out loud when the big dramatic moment of the Hitchcock trailer was "We put a mortgage on our house!!" Oh, the drama.

Yes. I laughed out loud when the big dramatic moment of the Hitchcock trailer was "We put a mortgage on our house!!" Oh, the drama.

My biggest peeve are biopics that have no interest in the artist's creative output at all. "Iris" is a great example. We never find out anything about what made Iris Murdoch tick as a writer. It's a love story that might as well have been told with fictional people, except making it a biopic gives it a false sense of…

My biggest peeve are biopics that have no interest in the artist's creative output at all. "Iris" is a great example. We never find out anything about what made Iris Murdoch tick as a writer. It's a love story that might as well have been told with fictional people, except making it a biopic gives it a false sense of…

To be fair, Shakespeare in Love didn't pass itself off as a biopic. It was clearly putting a real character in a fictional story, like, I dunno. Charles Darwin in The Pirates! Nobody would criticize that for being a overdramatized biopic either.

To be fair, Shakespeare in Love didn't pass itself off as a biopic. It was clearly putting a real character in a fictional story, like, I dunno. Charles Darwin in The Pirates! Nobody would criticize that for being a overdramatized biopic either.

Larry

Larry

I'm always confused by stories where children have their hearts broken by adults who tell them Santa doesn't exist, only to have a twist ending that shows - ho ho ho - he's real after all! So, if he's real, then who's responsible for the presents? It can't be Santa, because then the adults wouldn't have a reason to…

I'm always confused by stories where children have their hearts broken by adults who tell them Santa doesn't exist, only to have a twist ending that shows - ho ho ho - he's real after all! So, if he's real, then who's responsible for the presents? It can't be Santa, because then the adults wouldn't have a reason to…

Everything you need to know about this movie (probably): its only 100 on Metacritic is from Rex Reed.

Everything you need to know about this movie (probably): its only 100 on Metacritic is from Rex Reed.

My Week with Marilyn is such a bland piece of nothing of a movie that comparing another film favorably to it seems to me like saying "If you like untoasted, unbuttered bread, why don't you try this slice?"

My Week with Marilyn is such a bland piece of nothing of a movie that comparing another film favorably to it seems to me like saying "If you like untoasted, unbuttered bread, why don't you try this slice?"

I'm looking forward to appearances by Bart's friend Richard, the Happy Little Elves and Dan Quayle.

I'm looking forward to appearances by Bart's friend Richard, the Happy Little Elves and Dan Quayle.