I hate Alice Sebold's novel, The Lovely Bones. It is probably one of my least favorite books of all time. It's basically the Tuesdays with Morrie (another horrible horrible book) of…   Read Story »

Every year, one billion (exactly one billion) dumb movies get made that are either remakes or reboots or in some other way derivative of a thing that has been done before. Everyone knows that. And so…   Read Story »

For the record (again) I hate Alice Sebold's book The Lovely Bones. It is the Tuesdays with Morrie of horrific child-rape-homicide. "Rarely have I been so uplifted by a horrific child-rape-homicide.…   Read Story »

When I was in high school and college (that's right, college!) I often imagined taking my 200 dollars out of the bank (that's right, 200 dollars!) or whatever, and disappearing. There is a romantic…   Read Story »

The trailer has been released for The Brothers Bloom (October 24), a madcap caper movie about two grifters pulling one last big con, and getting the tables turned on them by their beautiful mark.…   Read Story »

While Darren Aronofsky's film The Fountain may be many things to many people, I can tell you what it is not: it is not the Worst Movie of All Time. It may be an odd, pretentious bit of adolescent…   Read Story »