Buy Or Don’t Buy

I mean there kinda really were a lot of unresolved questions:
-Was the White House rebuilt?
-Did Randy Quaid survive?
-Does Jeff Goldblum have other things to say with his hands?
-Are there other black pilots?
-ARE ALIENS REAL?!!?#!!!
Here are my re-purposed slogans for ID42 and ID43:
We’ve always believed we weren’t alone. Pretty soon, we’ll wish we had more alone [...]

So the comic itself sucks. So why is it a movie?

Here are some general rules:
- The only talking dog should be Scooby.
- There shouldn’t be any doggy dancing scenes.
- The only surfing animal should be this:

I don’t like children. I like them even less when they do things for attention and admiration. And when they perform in costumes to adult-themed songs, just forget about it.
Enjoy. Or not.
Portuguese Lady Gaga:

6 year-old Ke$ha

Parents? Where are you?

The most offensive part of my day is undoubtedly the 30 seconds I spend walking through the parade of advertising that is the 47-50th Street subway station. For the past few months the ads in this station have been exclusively for the little-seen and little-loved Spike-TV comedy “Blue Mountain State.” Most of them are offensive [...]

I owe Jay Leno an apology. For much of my life I’ve thought of him as a complacent old hack on the wrong side of history, with nothing better to do than spent his time telling humorless and mean-spirited jokes to an audience that thinks predictability breeds hilarity. I was making the cardinal sin of [...]

I like cheesy things, so it’s no surprise that I love the obnoxious, eyeroll-inducing sequel titles that go beyond sticking “2″ or another number behind it.
This morning I read about a sequel for Marky Mark’s”Four Brothers,” . Guess what they are calling it? “Five Brothers!” Or how about The Chipmunks’ “The Squeakquel?” It’s annoying but [...]

Readers, there are many times in life where you will find yourself presented with a total information overload. The next one minute and 49 seconds will be like that for you:

Where can we even begin to reckon with this? It’s best to start by eliminating the obvious. I’m not going to tread the well-worn path [...]

You know how Natalie Portman is the face of the ultimate indie-mainstream cross over. She’s cute, smart, vegetarian and a “serious actress”? Well, over the years I’ve liked her less and less. I can’t remember the last movie where it was her role that really made me like the movie. Can you?
But regardless of my [...]

Jim Emerson, editor of RogerEbert.com and proprietor of the wonderful film blog Scanners, has been re-uploading his video essays to a new server and in the process bringing them to my mind after a long absence. His best so far is this “free association dream sequence” from October 2007 centered around the theme of close-ups:

close-up [...]

As of now, Anna Kendrick is probably (well, definitely) best-known as that girl from the Twilight movies, you know, that one who doesn’t get a whole lot of screen time and is inexplicably overlooked by all of her male classmates in favor of Kristen Stewart’s listless Bella Swan.
But after December 25, when the funny-sad-smart George [...]