As I was watching a movie with Jason Robards in it the other week, it reminded me that he died a few years ago and you realize his body of work can longer grow. There are several emotions one can fee

An amusing twist on the “calling out the wrong girl’s name in the middle of doing the dirty deed” was brought to my attention yesterday. One of my friends has had two straight girlfriends who have ha

Am I an idiot savant or do other people remember which theatres they saw a particular movie in? If I saw it in the theatre in Chicago or Atlanta, I can tell you where I saw it probably more than 90%

Here’s a smattering of movies I’ve seen over the holiday weekends.

The 40 Year Old Virgin was our favorite rental from the past month. I sometimes dread when a funny person from TV (i

Being a big movie fan has had its rewards in the past 5 or 6 years with the proliferation of DVDs on the market. I am one of those people who lives for the special features that are included – delete

It’s time to recognize who I consider are the best male actors in Hollywood today (besides Tom Cruise pretending he’s straight). The following guys, while uglier than an unwiped arse being pressed up

No major plot points are spoiled here. These three-sentence vignettes are simply sound bites for the eyes. For real reviews, I defer to Mr. Ebert.

Million Dollar Baby
A boxing

Batman is back. Thank you, Christopher Nolan (director of Insomnia and Memento), for returning the Batman franchise to respectability. Christian Bale does a tremendous job as Batman and I can only

I have included the full text of a NY Times article talking about a documentary regarding the most depraved joke in the world, as told by many comedians, but with their version of it. I have heard th

Now this just kicks butt. The Chicago Sun-Times is doing a weeklong special commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Blues Brothers being filmed in Chicago. I have the 20th Anniversary DVD which in

[Disclaimer] I am a pseudo-geek. I am not into science fiction, don’t like Star Trek or any of its spinoffs, couldn’t tell you the names of any characters from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and I