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 25,2011 - Nicolas Cage is “badass motherfucker” John Milton, recently escaped from hell and hot on the heels of a badass satanic priest ...

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 // Jan 14,2011 - Serious devotees of The Green Hornet—he of the dark, grim 1930s radio show—are going to howl. The rest of us can enjoy The Green Hornet, Seth Rogen-style ...

POSTED // Jan 7,2011 - Oh, how silly, the movie about the lady country-music superstar, with Gwyneth Paltrow as the Faith Trisha LeAnn Shania mashup! Hey, cute: She meets the boy-toy up-and-comer who might become her lover

POSTED // Dec 10,2010 - Didn’t get enough of Rupert Grint and Bill Nighy in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? Or just need some relief from the unrelenting grimness of Part 1? Check them out—teamed up with Em

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 // Oct 15,2010 - There’s something more eerie than dystopia: a dystopia in which no one understands they’re living in a dystopia ...

POSTED // Aug 27,2010 - I suppose Aaron Schneider knows a thing or two about how to make a cold, gray, stark wintry movie look even more Great Depression-y ...

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...