Sorry I've been more than slack updating this thing. In what I hope to be the start of a fresh spate of new blog entries, here is a com...

Josh Olson, who adapted "A History of Violence" for the movies, got burned in one of those "Will you read my screenplay?...

Saw this over on Andrew Sullivan's blog and he's right, it's hypnotic. The music, not so much. But it's fascinating to take...

The wife and I went to the 2009 Decatur Book Festival on Saturday (for my entry about the 2006 Decatur Book Festival, click here ). The Grea...

The trailer for "Avatar," Jim Cameron's long overdue follow-up to the blockbuster-against-which-all-others-are measured ...

(A review with spoilers.) I saw "District 9" on Saturday, August 15th, and was pleasantly surprised to find a smart, original sci...

Saw "Julie and Julia" at our new new theater here in Kennesaw, part of a chain called NCG, on Tuesday night last week, in a room c...

Take just a moment, won't you, to watch my elected Representative, none other than Phil Gingrey (R), take the assault rifle-carrying hea...

If you happened to watch Michael Vick's interview on "60 Minutes" this past Sunday, then you may have been witness to the firs...

And we're in! We are home- owners. And, pictured to the left, the home we now own. We closed on Thursday, painted two rooms Thursday and...

A friend and former roommate of mine posted a link to this image from artist Tim O'Brien this past week on Ye Olde Facebook and I though...

I tried not long ago to write a post about Michael Mann's "Public Enemies," but I couldn't stay awake long enough to write...

You know it's been a while since I wrote a post that pretty much no one who frequents this thing would have any interest in. I think it...

I finally got a new computer over the weekend, and this is what I picked up. That's right. I've finally come over to the other side....

To make up for my photo-free reference to my beach vacation in yesterday's post, I'm including a photo my brother took of me (and my...

Hey y'all. Sorry for the totally weak blog action of late. I feel like I just put that "Road" post up and it's actually b...

Not a great trailer, but gets the job done. For one, I don't really like the "Day After Tomorrow" vibe at the start of this t...

I GOT INTO A CONVERSATION with one of my 3 bosses at work back in March and told him I was going to see "Watchmen" in IMAX. I was ...

This was kind of gross, but also kind of funny. Not so funny that I'm banging down people's doors trying to get them to watch it, bu...

Man do I like our President. When I'm feeling more ambitious than I do right now, I'll write up a really insight-free report card fo...