A wise man once said “It’s not just about seeing Star Wars two weeks before everyone else. You’ve gotta plow through crap like Marie Antoinette and Catwoman as well.� I have the fortune of being able to see all of the films that I want, and find out that they are only worth one viewing (or l...

This Week in DVD is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. Please don’t take the commentary on the movies and TV shows too seriously, as they’re meant not to be reviews but rath...

Last night I met up with Steph and Alek and cajoled them into going out for a bite to eat at Outback Steak House so that they could FINALLY partake of the wonder that are Aussie Cheese Fries. The guys have heard about them but were never able to partake … and last night was the night: Clearly,...

A burst of films and books that spin a narrative of redemption out of genocide....

One might chalk up a reluctance to cry at the movies to having sat through roughly four hundred of them a year and grown numb to the more melodramatic efforts. And yet I can't say that I've ever been given much cause to shed tears in the theater or at home, even from the earliest years of my moviego...

No big shocker that “Twilight” grabbed the top slot at the box office last weekend, followed by “Quantum of Solace” and “Bolt.” Here are the numbers from Box Office Mojo: Twilight, $69.63M Quantum of Solace, $26.70M Bolt, $26.22M Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, $15.6...

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (or The Boy in the Striped Pajamas here in America.) Watch the trailer. It's a fictional story of the Holocaust told from the point of view of an 8-year-old son of Auschwitz' commandant. The boy forms a friendship with a boy his age who lives in the 'farm' at the end o...