America’s Two Favorite Pastimes

It's not often that I go to ESPN.com, typing in the URL tentatively, as if it's an address someone has given me in an unfamiliar city, and I have to read it to the cab driver from the airport, not kno...

Pineapple Express: Fail

I don't feel like I oscillate too much in my opinion of movies. The five star (with half stars!) rating system works pretty well for me. I find that it offers enough shades of grey to differentiate a ...

The Dark Knight: It’s a real movie!

Guys, I want to cry when I think about how much Christopher Nolan is giving me hope for the future of filmmaking. No, seriously. The Dark Knight is a real movie! With real editing and acting and a nea...

Hellboy II: The Golden Zzzz

You have to admit that it's almost not worth me writing a review of anything like Hellboy, a comic book character that I happen to know nothing about but you happen to know everything about....

Hooked on Classics: A DVD Roundup

I honestly wrote an uppity sentence about how sometimes I have "things to do", "people," and I can't "flit off to the movies every five seconds" just to "compete with Daniel Neman," who gets to do t...

Wall-E: The future is grim yet gleeful.

Well, I saw Wall-E last night, and I've had 24 hours to mull it over. 24 hours that I've been spending pulling gravel out of my hair from the Virginia Center Commons parking lot, upon which I crumbled...

The Happening: The trouble with Nighty

I figure if you go to see The Happening, it'll be purely to experience the magic that is M. Night Shamyalan and the pitiful rat king he makes of filmmaking....

The Visitor: Viva summer blockbusters!

I don't know about you, but I started the summer off with a bang. Typically skeptical of summer blockbusters, I was surprised to notice how many of them this year seemed to actually interest me....

Sex and the City: Yeah, I went there.

So the other night I put my brand new marriage* in jeopardy during what began as a pleasant post-honeymoon dinner with my sister and her husband....

Forgetting Sarah Marshall: Forget those flaws!

Sometimes it's tough to like Judd Apatow. I liked The 40 Year Old Virgin, loved Knocked Up, and tolerated Superbad -- it's not really the movies themselves that provoke these qualms. ...