POSTED // Jan 9,2012 - It’s the most wonderful time of the year—when we movie lovers try to second-guess the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

POSTED // Jul 12,2011 - Did you miss Beastly and Red Riding Hood at your local multiplex this winter? Chances are you did ... but be on the lookout for many more flicks just like them.

POSTED // Mar 28,2011 - You think tax time is a plot to drive you mad with its incomprehensible financial gobbledygook? Have you seen Trading Places, the brilliant 1983 comedy that culminates in a trading-floor finale involving frozen orange-juice ...

POSTED // Feb 1,2011 - Chances are pretty good that at least a few of the actors who take home Oscar statues on Feb. 27 for their work in 2010 will be names that inspire nothing but bewilderment for the average moviegoer ...

POSTED // Nov 8,2010 - I don’t get football. It’s not a great loss in my life, but it does mystify me that so many people seem so invested in it. I finally got a hint of what the appeal is a few years ago...

POSTED // Aug 25,2010 - It’s been almost a quarter of a century since Max Headroom—the visionary 1987-1988 ABC science-fiction series—graced TV screens, but my memories of it have never faded...

POSTED // Jun 28,2010 - Blowout preventer—that sounds pretty good right about now. Not for the crack at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico that’s spewing oil, but for me ...

POSTED // May 12,2010 - Explosions! Super-powered fisticuffs! Cool sci-fi gadgets! Caped flight! That’s all the appeal of comic-book action movies is about—right? Everyone knows that. Don’t they?

POSTED // Mar 24,2010 - I've been a Roku user for almost a year, and it's edging so darn close to my dream— and I love it so much—that once in a while, I get frustrated that it isn't actually closer...

POSTED // Feb 3,2010 - Whip It arrived on DVD on Jan. 26. What’s that? You’ve never heard of Whip It? It’s a film about women doing something other than fretting about babies...