Kurt Vonnegut dedicated his 1976 novel Slapstick "to the memory of Arthur Stanley Jefferson and Norvell Hardy , two angels of my time...

The futuristic movie SURROGATES (2009) unexpectedly blew my mind... a culture in which affluent humans prefer to stay ensconced in their ho...

Graphic from Yellowdog Granny . I am hoping to make it down to Columbia for the Republican CNN dog-and-pony-show (debate, I mean)...

As you have undoubtedly heard, Charlie Sheen's live shows didn't go over so well over the weekend. Practicing alcoholics are never...

The most beautiful woman in the history of the world (and the subject of Daisy's major lifelong celebrity crush!) has passed on ... I si...

"When we need somebody haunted we investigate. When we investigate we do so noisily always." - L. Ron Hubbard , MANUAL OF JUSTICE...

At left: Sid isn't gonna like what Lynette says next. One of the greatest movie-bitches of all time has passed . She was my age. Lisa...

Over the weekend, we very much enjoyed the film Hollywoodland (2006). Even more than fabulous Adrien Brody , even more than the presence of...

I mean, what are they gonna say, man, when he's gone, huh? When he dies, when IT dies, man; cause when IT dies, HE dies. What are they...

I invite you to closely examine the photos that accompany this post. They are all of the same person.* Would you know this, if I hadn...

As my regular readers know, I am an old movie geek. I pepper my conversation with lines from old movies. I inspect old movies like old map...

Sidney Poitier and his Oscar in 1963, photo from Aliya S. King . One of the most awesome men in the entire world , one of the regular c...

Daran at Feminist Critics has just posted a link to a London Daily Mail article by William Leath, titled Why do my son's books tell him...

Mel Gibson directs James Caviezel in The Passion of the Christ. (2004) I once belonged to a trad-Catholic email listserv, which took as th...