Love and Other Drugs is actually based on a memoir called Hard Sell: the Evolution of a Viagra Salesman. (Hard Sell! Do you get it?! Penises.) Now, as we have all learned from writers like David…   Read Story »

There is a very specific type of disappointment that you only get with big budget summer movies. It's not crushing or anything, it barely even registers as disappointment. It's just this vague,…   Read Story »

Please Give trailer, you guys: There was a Talk of the Town article in last week's New Yorker (that's right, ladies, the New Yorker!) about a family that sold their house and gave half of the…   Read Story »

Uh. OK. Well, first let's address what this movie did well, like the disappointed parents we are (or at least that I am), recognizing that the negative feedback won't be useful or constructive if it…   Read Story »

There seem to be two basic kinds of robot movies: the dystopian nightmare of technology out of control (Terminator, The Matrix, Blade Runner*), and the robot as metaphor for the human need to make…   Read Story »