Before I went to see "There Will Be Blood", the wife and I took in a showing of "Cloverfield," Matt Reeves and JJ Abrams...

I saw "There Will Be Blood" over the weekend, and I had a reaction to it I did not expect: incomprehension. In this post I'm g...

Word is coming down the wire right now that actor Heath Ledger has die d . These are very preliminary reports that don't speak to the ci...

If Obama wants people to stop calling him a closet conservative, he's got to stop saying stuff like this : "The Republican approach...

His case to be President of the United States just keeps getting stronger. Today, Senator Pat Leahy from Vermont, chairman of the Senate Jud...

First, some interesting movie news. Variety is reporting that Charlize Theron is joining the cast of "The Road," an adaptation of ...

This. Is. Hilarious. Check out this video from Funnyordie.com featuring Michael Cera and a fake interviewer dude named Zach Galifianakas. C...

This is pretty cool. Want to know where you stand on the political spectrum? (As if you didn't already know.) Click here to go to a han...

This post started out as a comment on Paul Papadeas’s comment on my previous blog post, but then it got long and I thought I ought to just t...

And Hillary wins. Congratulations to her on a great comeback win. Despite the punditocracy's unanimous opinion that Hillary's candid...

With 15% of the votes counted, Hillary's winning New Hampshire at the moment. She's at 40% to Obama's 36%. t's not a big per...

A pretty damning story today about Ron Paul in The New Republic . James Kirchik, the writer of the story, has discovered a trove of newslett...

The New Hampshire primary is today. Voters in the small New Hampshire town of Dixville Notch cast their votes just after midnight this morni...

The networks are all calling it: Obama wins Iowa. Clinton and Edwards are fighting it out for second place. Obviously, I'm really happy ...

1.) I've written about David Simon's HBO show "The Wire" here on this blog before . The show's critical reception has...

A hell of a lot went on this year for me. I traveled overseas for the first time, I finished that goddamn book, attended three weddings, mov...

I'm coming down with something that promises to be just the most awesome sickness (right in time for Christmas!), but I still expect to ...

I've been waiting for this one for a long time. Here there be "Dark Knight" trailers. And I can't help but think that th...

A few days ago, I finished reading Michael Crichton’s latest novel “Next.” Originally published at the end of 2006, it's recently shown ...

If the film ends up being half as awesome as this Drew Struzan poster, 2008's going to be an amazing year at the movies. Click here for...