There comes a point for many actors where they turn into one of two things.  Sometimes, they become caricatures of themselves.  Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Christopher Walken, Robert DeNiro and other actors from the 70′s are so comfortable with their [...]

I just got back from The Avengers, a movie I’ve been cutting snide remarks about on my Facebook for the better part of three weeks.  I don’t know if this is the chicken quesadilla or the beer I pounded four [...]

A year ago, I was in Reno, Nevada, a town I knew nothing of outside of the show Reno 911!  I was there for work, opening a new restaurant, training the new staff.  A few days into the first week, [...]

I have not wanted to report any of my old blog entries for fear of being called lazy, uninspired and various other vitriolic invective I hurl at myself in the mirror in the morning.  But in light of the week that this [...]

I know that the first time I ever saw a Spike Lee was in the Nike commercials he did with Michael Jordan as his alter-ego, Mars Blackmon.  At the time, I had no idea who Spike Lee was, who Mars Blackmon [...]

On my old blog, in typical fashion of a pampered, spoiled movie brat,I bemoaned the Blu-Ray explosion when I remembered how DVD ruined video collections.  As technology improves, more and more films are forgotten and among the films I mourned, believing that they would [...]

If you follow me on Twitter, and I would advise you not to, the other day I pondered about the general existence of the new American Reunion movie coming soon, the fourth (?) sequel to American Pie.  I wondered simply, [...]

I have read a lot of reviews of the movie Project X.  Some from reviewers and bloggers that I like and read regularly and even more from those that I do not (expect for Peter Travers, but he likes everything). [...]

And I’m not talking about life lessons, like “it’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game” or “leave the gun, take the cannoli” or “you’re not your f^cking khakis.”  I am referring to real life history, [...]

If you follow me on Twitter (I’m sorry), then you know that besides film, I am devoted to baseball and the Boston Red Sox.  January and February are generally the darkest months of my year, with no baseball and terrible [...]