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A Word From Our Sponsors: The WB Store
December 17, 2013 – 6:30 PM | 4 Comments
A Word From Our Sponsors: The WB Store

 

From LoTR to Looney Tunes, Gossip Girl to Gilmore Girls, Batman to Vampire Diaries, the Warner Bros. store has many of your favorite movies and shows on DVD and Blu-Ray — not to mention mousepads …

The Dark Knight Rises: Armored in our mistakes
December 28, 2012 – 2:59 PM | 9 Comments
<I>The Dark Knight Rises</I>: Armored in our mistakes

It isn’t put together very well, the story, but it has such affection for its characters, and it believes uncynically in what it’s trying to be, and it is trying to be a sad, beautiful …

Oscars 2012 Death Race Update: 3 weeks to go
February 6, 2012 – 9:28 AM | 8 Comments
Oscars 2012 Death Race Update: 3 weeks to go

Current score: Oscars 35, Sarah 26; 5 categories completed (thanks, Hugo).
Again, the Press Play scorecard is here — and after a little detective work and an HTML meltdown, it should be a lot easier to …

Big Country Little Car Tour II, Day 1: Brooklyn NY to Akron OH
July 26, 2011 – 8:45 AM | 17 Comments
Big Country Little Car Tour II, Day 1: Brooklyn NY to Akron OH

It took an hour just to get out of the state of New York. Not far into Pennsylvania, I ran into the drenching rain we’d waited on for days back home. Visibility dropped to 20 …

The Entity: Touched By A Demon
April 2, 2011 – 2:24 PM | 5 Comments
<I>The Entity</I>: Touched By A Demon

Despite a whiffy premise that put me in mind of Christine, and not in a good way, I wanted to like The Entity more than I did. It just isn’t scary enough.
The entity in question …

Bradelor! DUN!: Boo, Urns
February 15, 2011 – 12:23 PM | 5 Comments
Bradelor! DUN!: Boo, Urns

At long and uncomfortable last, the Bachelor producers allowed Brad to eject Brows McGee last night — and yet the episode still dragged, to the point where we spend most of this week’s Bradelor! DUN! …

N Candy AA II: The Final Four
November 18, 2010 – 3:20 PM | 28 Comments
N Candy AA II: The Final Four

Updated bracket is here. Confused? Click here. Polls close 11:59 AM ET on Monday.
Happy birthday, Keckler! I hope you get a whole pallet of Christmas Treeps on your natal day.
10 Nerds vs. 11 Smarties/SweeTarts. I …

Crazy Heart
February 25, 2010 – 8:54 AM | 22 Comments
<I>Crazy Heart</I>

The acting is good across the board, in spite of writing that lurches between motivations and tempos like a car dropping out of gear. By that measure, it’s not Jeff Bridges, the presumptive Best Actor …

Invictus
February 17, 2010 – 8:09 AM | 22 Comments
<I>Invictus</I>

And thus endeth the Racism Is Bad, Mmmkay Oscar trifecta.
…I shouldn’t be flip. It’s an important story. Alas, it’s filmed as just that, An Important Story, and the weight of that responsibility presses all the …