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It's weird recommending a stressful situation. Like this movie, it's stressful. I'd never say, "Hey, if you want a good time then load the kids in the van and go for a rush hour fast food run!" But I would recommend this movie. But I gotta say that New York City looks pretty pleasant without peop...

The good news: Jason Lee and David Cross are superbly cast as the much-maligned Dave "Aaaaalvin!" Seville and the Greedy Jett Record Executive, Uncle Ian, respectively. The bad: We are obsessed with butts. I cover that in the video below. Expose your assets, list and sell for FREE at MyREALTY.com.

Little Miss Sunshine got herself all growed up...and knocked up. That's not to say the young actress Abigail Breslin of Sunshine is in this movie, or pregnant. I'm just saying that Juno is this year's little movie that could. And it does. From Rainn Wilson's opening cameo as a wisecracking conven...

Be the butterfly. Be it now! I felt like an ass. Shortly before seeing this movie--quite possibly the best film of the year--I complained to Sarah that I did not have enough time to write a book. I'm too busy, I said, and then followed that excuse with, "And I think I need to find a kid who'll se...

Moot.  It's not a word used all that much, but it now gets its day in the sun.  "Moot," is the most succinct way to describe the recent plan proposed by President Bush to bailout homeowners trapped in subprime mortgages.  Actually, it's the mootest, or most moot, plan of inaction ever.  That's no...

Here's a quick way to make most everything that's come out so far this year look like complete rubbish. Atonement is brilliant. I could write and write about this film but then it's a pain to edit it down to the tiny space the newspaper allows me. It's so hard because I love all of my sentences. ...

The Golden Compass is the beginning of another movie trilogy.  Trilogies are hot right now.  Simply write three consecutive books, maybe instructional pamphlets on how to operate your oven, and Hollywood will buy the rights.  Of course Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" literary trio aren't ju...