a public service announcement on behalf of thong-clad purveyors of the ass shudder[ Morgan Freeman walks along an urban street front. ] Hello, I’m Morgan Freeman – and I’m here to appeal to you on a matter...
Look around youA German correspondent in Washington complains that Barack Obama won’t sit for interviews with reporters from other countries . At...
BTC: Checking inBeen out of Ottawa for a couple weeks now and out of the country entirely for a few days. And for most of that, horror of...
Weekend Viewing: Mark Hamill’s JokerSince this is Bat-Weekend, here’s a bit of perhaps the best Joker adaptation ever, the animated version voiced by Mark Hamill (who...
When is a Spinoff Not a Spinoff?Nikki Finke takes time out from writing 973 posts about The Dark Knight ’s box-office (we get it, it’s going to make lots of...
American exceptionalismOver at the NY Times, Adam Liptak has been writing occasional articles exploring how the American legal system and its conception...
Happy as a ClamDMc has a poll up on what’s the worst "clam" (a non-joke that’s put into scripts as filler when the writers can’t think of an...
Springsteen: Thunder Road, Hammersmith Odeon, 1975I’m actually not the world’s biggest Bruce Springsteen fan, but this is pretty close to...
Clean vs. Family-FriendlyWhen I wrote a review of The Dark Knight for the website , I had some trouble coming up with a word to describe the movie’s...
Don’t Forget...Part 2 of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is now active. Part 3 will go up on Saturday.