Ebert wrote a review of a similar dumb comedy (can't remember which one) once where he said it's the kind of thing that's impossible to review or advertise, because you read a synopsis or see a commercial and think "can't miss it" or "not in a million years."

I saw The Spirit in a 3/4 full theater a couple days after Christmas. I would say probably half the theater walked out. I've never seen anything like it.

From the director of Raising Victor Vargas, an underrated little gem. I'm there.

Sports movies kind of give themselves away in terms of the plot, but the trailers for Southpaw are even more "the entire movie in two minutes" than sport movie trailers usually are.

Though it's not a show, the perfectly-meh-for-Saturday-afternoon-cable-Subaru-beige-indie-dramedy This Is Where I Leave You culminates in a scene where Jane Fonda's matriarch surprises her family by making out with her neighbor in front of her children, revealing that they've been carrying on a relationship for years.

This is the fourth mash-up post today. It's almost like they're mocking us.

I think the pre-super-soldier Steve Rogers in Captain America is already here. That "other person's head on tiny body" effect was a losing proposition no matter how you sliced it, but for a movie that cost a skajillion dollars, it really did not look good.

To be honest, while I'd happily pay more for no ads, and while it sucks to pay for something with ads, and while the repetition of the commercials could drive you to insanity, I really don't think the commercials on Hulu are that bad. At most, I get two 30 second ads per break, 2-3 times a show. Watching regular TV…

Saw a trailer for this the other night and was shocked to find out it's coming out this weekend - it has "late August/early September dump you catch some drunken Friday night a year from now when it's on cable" written all over it.

The endings are the only thing I remember about several of Woody's middle-of-the-road movies. Melinda and Melinda in particular had a smash-cut ending that could not have been better for the material, even if the movie that preceded it was meh.

I'm on this boat, sort of. I still don't know if I loved it or hated it, and I'm not sure if I'd ever want to watch it again. But I was never bored watching it, and a year and a half later, I still remember it vividly. That's something, right?

Remember when the Gaye family burned through all their goodwill in a single press conference, sobbing about how horrible the whole situation had made their lives and how satisfying it was that justice was served, as if someone kinda sorta ripping off one of their father's beats was the equivalent of a family member…

There's a whole passage in Dad is Fat about how he hates the label because clean usually equals boring. And he says something like "I didn't really plan on being a clean comedian, but when you're talking about mini-muffins and Hot Pockets, you don't really need to say fuck a bunch of times."

Dule Hill is close behind him - lead roles in shows from 1999 to 2014, and counting bit parts and TV movies, he's been on TV in some form for 22 of the last 23 years.

Shonda's like Ryan Murphy, in that I like her shows at first and then they just sort of peter out. But I'm always happy to see any Six Feet Under alumni getting work.
Whatever happened to Keith? Shonda, get on that.

Paddy Considine is a prime candidate for "great actor who has been in almost no bad movies" awards. He doesn't get the recognition others in that category, like Catherine Keener or Phillip Seymour Hoffman, get, and he should.

I saw the original in a 300 seat sold-out theater. There were seven men. Four of us were gay (my boyfriend and I, another gay couple a few rows ahead), and three solo guys who were probably with their girlfriends. This doesn't really surprise me.

Are the protagonists still a reasonable person who thinks they should stop filming the ghosts and a fucking idiot who keeps saying no, we need to film the ghosts because reasons?

I'd argue that Mulan is pretty beloved, if internet semi-ubiquity is an indication of belovedness (and it's still a really good movie, albeit not quite at the heights of BATB and The Little Mermaid).

In a movie that's filled to the brim with egregious product placements, the one that bugged me the most in the first Transformers (and really, one of my only lasting memories of the movie as a whole) was a scene where one of the tech guys hands the Hot Tech Girl a Samsung SD card, and then there's a three-second…