Comedian Doug Benson gave me a glimmer of hope for last season’s Last Comic Standing (until he got eliminated), but he’s a regular on Best Week Ever, and now he’s got his dope-umentary out: Super …

That is not a word, and shouldn’t be; I apologize. Let me make it up to you with some links! First, The Onion‘s AV Club reviews The Pride Of The Yankees and Eight Men Out …

“Can anyone explain to me why Tori Spelling is in this movie?   …Anyone?”
I’d never seen this eighties gem, lent to me nearly a year ago by Rey, and I enjoyed it much more than …

“You can believe she’s my sister, or you can walk home.”
I had seen Star 80 before, but not for years, and I remembered it as quite good, but popping it in this time, I expected …

“Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymo– oh, wait.”
King Kung Fu is painfully bad — in the few spots where it isn’t grindingly slow and dull — and the great potential contained in the title for …

Doesn’t hit, quite, this one. I liked it, it held my interest, but Baumbach makes several choices that squandered some of the story’s potential, not least the use of John Turturro.
Turturro is, I suspect, underrated …

“After I finish shaving you, I’ll spoon-feed you some exposition.”  
I hesitate to criticize Stephen King film adaptations that turn out well, because so many of them don’t, and Misery is a good one — …

You can’t say Dr. Bronner didn’t lead a remarkable life, so it’s rather unfortunate that the weakest parts of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox are the sequences during which Bronner himself is talking — expounding on …

I’m out of town for a few days; while I’m gone, I’ll be finishing Posner’s Case Closed, and starting I Love You, Beth Cooper and that book on the TV-news wars Kim lent me months …

For those of you not familiar, “FMK” stands for “Fuck, Marry, Kill”; for those of you not familiar with that, it’s like Death Is Not An Option, but with another element added. Like DINAO, you …