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Eric Recommends: ‘Apathy and Other Small Victories’
I really need to start keeping track of who recommends which books to me, because I no longer have any idea why I read "Apathy and Other Small Victories," and I want to thank the person who turned me on to it. So if that person is reading thi...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Meat the Press’
It's Wednesday, which means it's time to spotlight another "Snide Remarks" Classic as part of our year-long celebration of the column's 10th anniversary. This week's entry is a carnivorous item called "Meat the Press" (#143, Jan. 12, 2001). It de...
Bad poetry, but it’s about a wedding, not 9/11
"Did you really let your mom write our wedding announcement?" "I didn't have a choice! Just keep smiling!"
Our series on Bad 9-11 Poetry is over (check the archives to relive the magic), but a faithful reader named Katie sent in this gem that is...
How indeed?
This is an item from Internet Movie Database's film and TV news column from last Thursday. Is it wrong that the headline made me giggle?
Monday update: Why is my Snider sense tingling?
Normally I agree with Garfield about hating Mondays, but not today! Today Garfield can stick it! We got us a new "Snide Remarks" column right here, with its accompanying podcast (which of course you can listen to directly on the page, if you wanna, t...
Friday movie roundup – April 20
Welcome to Friday! I hope it is to your liking. Myself, I am not happy with it, for I have a stuffy nose and other cold-like symptoms, and it makes me headachy and phlegmy. You have some good movies awaiting you, though!
"Hot Fuzz," from the guys ...
Latest Dutchergate news: Richard Dutcher issues Official Declaration 2
With all of pop-culture-savvy Mormondom (that's about 50 people) abuzz over news of filmmaker Richard Dutcher's announcement that he has left both the Mormon cinema movement and the Mormon church, it was only a matter of time before the man himself s...
Humorous cereal: the gift that keeps on giving
Today the mailman brought me a package postmarked Orem, Utah. I know plenty of people there, but the name and address were unfamiliar. Was this the mail bomb I've been expecting for so long?
I opened the package to find a lovely card addressed to ...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘A Bowl Full of Telly’
We're celebrating the 10th anniversary of "Snide Remarks" with a forgotten column being spotlighted every Wednesday, and this week's "Snide Remarks" Classic is short, goofy, and Christmas-themed! Reading it today will be like having Christmas in wh...
Don’t abandon Mormonism and Mormon cinema: It makes Kieth Merrill angry
Kieth Merrill: You wouldn't like him when he's angry.
Richard Dutcher's commentary in last Thursday's edition of the (Provo, Utah) Daily Herald sent shockwaves throughout the Mormon blogging community. (Of course there's a Mormon blogging commun...
Watch this: ‘The Landlord’
More on the Richard Dutcher/Mormon cinema/Kieth Merrill brouhaha later -- I'm doing some fact-checking that's proving onerous -- but in the meantime, you must, simply MUST, watch this 2 1/2-minute film called "The Landlord." It features Will Ferrell,...
Richard Dutcher leaves Mormon cinema and Mormonism
Richard Dutcher in his upcoming film "Falling."
Richard Dutcher, whose 2000 film "God's Army" launched a new wave of Mormon-themed theatrical features, announced two things last week: that he's leaving Mormon cinema, and that he's leaving the Mo...
Monday: ‘Snide Remarks’ and podcast; ‘Slow Burn’ and ‘Redline’ merriment
Monday again? Already? Didn't we just have one of these like a week ago?!
Because it is Monday, here is your "Snide Remarks," with the podcast version embedded right there on the page. I was going to write about the Don Imus thing, but then I de...
Friday movie roundup – April 13
'Tis a busy weekend at the movies, and none of the options are very good! It's like going to an all-you-can-eat buffet at T.G.I. Friday's!
The best of the new releases is "Disturbia," and that's only a C+. They get worse from there: the absurd Hal...
Portland’s light rail, and grumps who oppose it
The Oregonian published a letter to the editor on Monday that I want to address. First, though, a warning: This letter contains references to towns such as "Happy Valley" and "Boring." Those are the real names of these places, not sarcastic nicknam...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Best and Worst’
This week's "Snide Remarks" Classic is called "Best and Worst" (#128; Oct. 6, 2000). It's one of several columns I wrote during my time at the Daily Herald in which I made fun of the Daily Herald itself. In this case, it was for a reader survey the...
My friends are amusing!
Scott "The Angry Jew" Weinberg
My friend and colleague Scott Weinberg has a new blog called Adventures in Moviewatching that's pretty good, as is everything he writes. Weinberg is an avid movie-watcher, an enthusiastic horror buff, and an often-...
‘Snide Remarks’ and podcast and announcement regarding same
I hope you enjoyed your Easter or Passover or Nothing weekend, whichever it was at your house. Here's a big Cadbury Creme Egg full of Monday goodness: a new "Snide Remarks" here, and a podcast recording of it here.
Speaking of the "Snide Remarks" ...
Mom loves me at Easter!
A box of Easter-themed love from Mom.
Well, she probably loves me the rest of the time, too. But it was made manifest yesterday when a box arrived in the mail containing the following items:
- several Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs
- a Cadbury C...
Friday movie roundup – April 6
Lots of movies this week, and I have anecdotes for almost all of them! I am an anecdote factory!
The big ticket is "Grindhouse," Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's double-feature homage to the schlocky B-movies of the '70s, complete with pho...
Snide Remarks Classic: ‘Clothes-Minded’
Remember what the world was like in the year 2000? This week's "Snide Remarks" Classic column might help you recall, as it makes reference to a couple of cultural items from that era. The column also predates the term "metrosexual," which is too ba...
Some Utah-related film items
Some very funny Utah-based filmmakers have created a mockumentary called "Stalking Santa," in which a man sets out to prove the existence of Santa Claus. It's in the style of "Best in Show," "Waiting for Guffman," and so forth, and it's smart, clever...
Clown-centric ‘Snide Remarks’ and podcast now available
If you are afraid to look at pictures of clowns, then you should not read this week's "Snide Remarks" column. You can safely listen to the podcast, however, as it contains no pictures.
Friday movie roundup – March 30
Three new wide releases this week, and I can recommend all of them, albeit some more heartily than others.
"The Lookout," which you may recall played at South by Southwest a couple weeks ago, is an outstanding drama with some thriller elements abo...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘The Tragedy of Village Inn’
This week's "Snide Remarks" Classic is one of my favorites: "The Tragedy of Village Inn," #112, published June 16, 2000, in the Daily Herald. It received some choice angry letters, too, so be sure to check those out.
For those of you just joinin...
Angry Letters: ‘Eragon,’ ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,’ miscellaneous
With the advent of comment-posting technology, people don't send me angry e-mails as often as they used to. Now they can just batter their flippers against the keyboard and post their ignorance directly to the site for all the world to see!
Luckil...
‘Snide Remarks’ podcast, and an observation
Here's the podcast for this week's "Snide Remarks," right here. This column particularly lends itself to podcasting, since it's in the form of a public speech. Note the use of music to produce more immature giggles, and note that my recording facilit...
New ‘Snide Remarks’; new movie reviews; new everything!
Whichever one of you jokers ordered a Monday, here it is. The rest of us were enjoying Sunday just fine, thank you.
The new "Snide Remarks" is posted here. It will not be brief, and you will not enjoy it. The podcast version is forthcoming; I'm ho...
SXSW Q and A
Several people posted questions in the comments on my South by Southwest diaries last week, so I thought I'd answer them here. I don't usually answer questions posted in the comments, because then I get involved in conversations and spend 10 hours a ...
Friday movie roundup – March 23
As someone who likes being on top of things and having work done on time and converting the chaos around me into neat, manageable boxes, I am very frustrated at how things developed this week. There are SIX new films opening in wide release today -- ...
Eric Recommends: ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me’
It's only been a few years since I discovered I love American history, and one of the more interesting books I've read on the topic is "Lies My Teacher Told Me," by James W. Loewen.
Now, I don't like the title. The title is a turn-off. It makes yo...
Late posting of last week’s movies: ‘Premonition,’ ‘Dead Silence,’ ‘I Think I Love My Wif...
Your reviews of last Friday's new releases are finally up: "Premonition," "Dead Silence," and "I Think I Love My Wife." Surprisingly, "Dead Silence" is the best of them. It wasn't screened for critics, and certainly many of the late reviews have not ...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Resistance Is Futile’
It's still 2007, which means it's still the 10th anniversary of "Snide Remarks," which means we're still celebrating by featuring forgotten gems from the dusty archives every Wednesday.
This week's "Snide Remarks" Classic is #101, "Resistance Is...
Friday movie roundup – March 16
There are two major releases this weekend, both of which were duly screened for critics, but both of which I missed due to my being in Austin for the South by Southwest Film Festival. I will catch them and post reviews as soon as possible, but probab...
Friday movie roundup – March 9
Just one new release this week, but it's a corker. It's "300," a highly entertaining film about the ancient Spartans fighting the ancient Persians. It's based on a graphic novel by Frank Miller, as was "Sin City," and it has that same graphic-novel l...
Eric’s Sack of Mail: Baffling letters
Most of the non-spam e-mails I receive fall under two categories: angry letters (which are sadly infrequent) and interesting/useful/pertinent questions or comments. But lately I've had a few that fall into a third category: baffling.
First, a lad ...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Ad Nauseum’
This week's "Snide Remarks" Classic column is about TV commercials, which is a very cutting-edge thing to make fun of. There's also a crack about gay marriage, which surprised me when I re-read it, as the column is from 1999 and I had forgotten tha...
Congratulate me! I am an uncle!
Logan Ripken Snider, fresh from the womb.
Though fate and hygiene have thus far prevented me from spawning any offspring of my own, I am pleased to report that my brother has picked up some of the slack has produced a man-child!
Logan Ripken ...
Your heapin’ helpin’ of Monday goodness
Today we bring you the rich, buttery taste of a new "Snide Remarks" column, which you will find at this Internet location. There is no accompanying podcast recording of it, not out of laziness on my part (though that's a good guess), but because the ...
Oscar non-winner gets mad at Jerry Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld presented the Oscar for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards last week, and he used the opportunity to go off on a couple of Seinfeldian tangents. Here is a transcript:
A few years ago, I was the subject of a documentary called "Com...
Friday movie roundup – March 2
One of the reasons the studios give for making critics watch comedies at public screenings instead of press-only affairs is that they think we'll have a better impression of the movie if we see it with an audience. The thinking is that laughter is co...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘We All Scream’
As we continue our weekly stroll down "Snide Remarks" memory lane (in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the column), we leave behind the BYU era and come now to the Daily Herald era.
Today's "Snide Remarks" Classic, "We All Scream," is an i...
No ‘Snide Remarks’; a consolation prize
No "Snide Remarks" today, on account of I didn't write one. But as consolation, let me offer you the hilarious shoulder of "Wondermark" to cry on. It is a comic strip in which the artwork comes from 19th-century book illustrations while the jokes are...
Thoughts on the 2007 Oscar ceremony
Wow, was everyone off on their Oscar predictions. Yeah, we got most of the big ones right (Scorsese, Mirren, Whitaker, Hudson, etc.), but everything else was all over the map.
"Pan's Labyrinth" wins three -- the second-highest total of the night -...
Friday movie roundup – Feb. 23
What's that you say? You'd like a week of great new movies! Sorry, bub. You're out of luck. All we've got are these three mediocrities.
"The Number 23" is ridiculous and laughable -- but to be fair, it's probably no more ridiculous and laughable t...
Eric’s 2007 Oscar predictions
It's a crazy, wide-open year for the Oscars. Usually the film with the most nominations is the frontrunner for Best Picture -- except that this year, for the first time in history, the film with the most nominations, "Dreamgirls," didn't get a Best P...
BYU student swipes old jokes; Eric half-heartedly responds
The Daily Universe, student newspaper at good ol' Brigham Young University, ran a letter to the editor on Feb. 9 that read as follows:
Bad moon pricing
Recently, there was an article about a man selling an acre on the moon for $20. I must say, I ...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Mall in a Day’s Work’
In the fall of 1998, a new mall opened in Provo. It was called Provo Towne Centre. Surely you remember this historic event as though it were yesterday. To celebrate, I hung out in the mall for a couple hours and wrote a column about it: "Mall in a ...
Angry Letters: Val Kilmer, Don’t call me stupid, ‘Norbit’
I received an e-mail with the subject line " faces." Naturally, I was intrigued. There was no name, and the return address bounced when I tried to reply, giving further evidence that people who write e-mails like this are cowards.
Anyway, here is ...
Your Monday deliveries
Here is this week's "Snide Remarks" (the conclusion to the road-trip story), here is the podcast version of it, and -- just for good measure -- here is my review of "Ghost Rider."
Friday movie roundup – Feb. 16
I was all set to see "Ghost Rider" at the last-minute, let's-hide-this-from-the-critics screening last night ... and then I arrived (on time, i.e., 30 minutes early) to find that there were no seats left in the theater, because they had a) let the cr...
Some Brits performed a Garrens sketch
One of my favorite sketches back in the Garrens Comedy Troupe days was "Dinner at Denny's," in which a man exhausted from making decisions all day at work goes to dinner and finds even more decisions to be made. We performed it several times back in ...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Immersed in Baptists’
Back in the summer of 1998, the Baptists held a convention in Utah. There was much local discussion beforehand about what would happen when the Baptists came to town, would they try to convert the Mormons, would the Mormons try to convert them, and...
Larry Miller follow-up and clarification
Looks like I stepped in it just a little bit in my last blog entry. On the subject of gays vs. straights, I said this:
Religious people, meanwhile, often want the gay community to understand that they (they religious people) have every right to cons...
Larry Miller admits ‘Brokeback’ mistake
Many readers, especially in Utah, will remember the uproar when local businessman Larry Miller pulled "Brokeback Mountain" from one of his movie theaters in January 2006. The problem wasn't that he wouldn't show the movie (it's his theater; he can do...
Friday movie roundup & advertiser pimpage – Feb. 9
Oh, what poor tidings Hollywood has brought us this week! Of the two new wide releases, one is mediocre, while the other is abysmal.
"Hannibal Rising" is the former, a wan, pointless examination of the famous villain's early days. It stars no one ...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Boy Scouting: Be Repaired’
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of "Snide Remarks," we're spotlighting a classic column every Wednesday throughout 2007. This week's is #33, "Boy Scouting: Be Repaired," published in The Daily Universe on March 30, 1998. It has some nostalgia for...
‘Snide Remarks’ podcast is up; this post-semi-colon phrase is just filler
This week's "Snide Remarks" podcast is now available for you and your ears to enjoy. You will find it here in this link that you are reading right now. And if you want to subscribe through iTunes or some other podcast-listening device, use this URL r...
Being a minister doesn’t necessarily mean you’re smart
In Portland, Maine, a Baptist minister gave a sermon about how Christians should support Jews and the nation of Israel. The sermon's point was to express love and admiration for the Jews. The sermon's title: "The Only Way to Destroy the Jewish Race."...
Column post (late), and an unrelated item
Since I was late in posting this week's "Snide Remarks," and later still at doing the podcast for it, I give you this unrelated item to ponder. This is a conversation I overheard on the Portland State University campus. First speaker is a wispy Asian...
Friday movie roundup – Feb. 2
Allow me to welcome myself back! I was on hiatus for January, not seeing new releases, taking a break from reviewing, but now it is February and everything is back to normal. This is especially true if you consider a plethora of lousy movies to be no...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Grandma II: Margrit’s Revenge’
This week's "Snide Remarks" Classic column is a delightful one indeed: #30, "Grandma II: Margrit's Revenge," published on March 2, 1998, in The Daily Universe. It's the account of my grandfather's marriage to an old lady in December 1997, and it's ...
‘Snide Remarks’; podcast; et cetera
This week's "Snide Remarks" has been posted, as has its accompanying podcast. May they provide you with minutes of enjoyment.
Sundance-related ‘Snide Remarks’ column and podcast
There's a new "Snide Remarks" column available for your perusal today. It was published yesterday in Salt Lake City Weekly as part of that paper's special daily coverage of the festival, so if you happened to be wandering the streets of Park City yes...
Friday movie roundup – Jan. 19
It was my intention to record podcasts for today's and next week's "In the Dark" before I left for the Sundance Film Festival. I was all excited about being ahead of the game, and being able to post podcasts even though I was away from my home base. ...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Just the Fats, Ma’am’
This week's "Snide Remarks" Classic column is #23, published on Jan. 20, 1998 in The Daily Universe: "Just the Fats Ma'am." It may strike you as just one of the many hundreds of columns I've written about dieting and/or getting in shape, but it isn...
Angry Letters: ‘The Holiday’ and Larry the Cable Guy
With commenting enabled on the movie reviews, people are able to post their angry diatribes directly, without having to send them to me. But a few hardy souls still spew their vitriol the old-fashioned way, via e-mail. I present two for your reading ...
New ‘Snide Remarks’ with podcast goodness
This week's new "Snide Remarks" is posted here, while the podcast version of it is here. Please to be clicking and enjoying for yourselves!
Friday movie roundup – Jan. 12
You recall from previous weeks that I'm mostly taking January off from reviewing movies, so there's not a lot to report.
I do have a review of "Alpha Dog," though, which I saw at Sundance last year and which is actually quite good. One of the best...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Crock of Ages’
As mentioned last week, we're celebrating the 10th anniversary of "Snide Remarks" this year. So every Wednesday, we'll post a link to a "classic" column from the archives, something that maybe hasn't gotten much attention over the years but that is...
Trip survived; podcast recorded
Despite Colorado and Wyoming's best efforts, I did make it safely back to Portland very late Sunday night. I drove for 17 1/2 hours straight, which is a record for me and which actually wasn't too bad. I guess I got in The Zone. Also, I was listening...
Breaking news: I am seeing much more of this great land of ours than I had hoped
This story will presumably one day be funny and thus worthy of inclusion in a "Snide Remarks" column, so I don't want to spoil it by sharing too many potentially amusing details here. But this is the gist of the story so far:
- After I wrecked my ...
Friday movie roundup – Jan. 5
As noted in a previous blog entry, I'm taking January off from reviewing new releases. There will be a few reviews trickling in for movies I saw in December that are now going wide, and perhaps a couple new ones that I'm assigned to review for Salt L...
A decade of ‘Snide Remarks’: Behold, the weekly ‘Snide Remarks’ Classic
2007 marks the 10th anniversary of "Snide Remarks," the weekly humor column that appears on this website. In case you have not been paying attention for the past decade, "Snide Remarks" began at The Daily Universe, Brigham Young University's campus...
Niece-centric ‘Snide Remarks’ posted
This week's "Snide Remarks" is up now, a bit later than usual, but hey, it's a holiday. There's no podcast, though, because the same ailment that left me voiceless on Friday still persists. I'll try to go back and record this one when my voice return...
End-of-the-year special features
It's that time of year again! (The end, specifically.) Time for the annual round-up of the best and worst movies of the year, and an accounting of what I did with myself for the last 12 months.
I reviewed 309 movies this year. That's up from 298 l...
Eric Recommends: ‘Special Topics in Calamity Physics’
"Special Topics in Calamity Physics," by Marisha Pessl. Don't be alarmed by the title, or think (as the man next to me on the train thought when he saw it and remarked, "That's some heavy reading") that this is a book about physics. No, it's a novel,...
Bad films of January to be spared Eric’s wrath
I will be taking a hiatus from reviewing movies. But do not be alarmed! The hiatus will only last for the month of January.
You are still alarmed? Please do not be. I did some checking. Of all the films I've reviewed (almost 1,900 now), 42 percent...
New ‘Snide Remarks’; podcast; Merry Christmas; etc.
Normally, of course, a column coming out on Dec. 25 would be Christmas-themed. However, today is also the last Monday of the year, which forces today's column to be the annual "Best of 'Snide Remarks'" retrospective.
The text version is here, whil...
Angry Letter: ‘Eragon’
As we skip merrily toward Christmas, here is an angry letter to bring warmth to your heart. It relates to my review of the movie "Eragon," and I heartily recommend that you first read the review and the comments that have been posted after it. Some o...
Friday movie roundup – Dec. 22
'Tis the season for a lot of movies. The podcast (link below) covers several of them, and the print version of "In the Dark" has even more. In no particular order, this week's flicks are:
"Rocky Balboa," in which Rocky fights his greatest opponent...
New ‘Snide Remarks’ begets new ‘Snide Remarks’ podcast
This week's column is up, and so is the podcast version of it, in which I play all the parts myself like a one-man Christmas pageant.
The podcast.
The URL to subscribe to the podcast.
Friday movie roundup – Dec. 15, post-blackout edition
This has not been an easy week for reviewing movies.
On Monday, as I drove from my apartment to catch a screening of "We Are Marshall" (opening next week), a BMW smashed into me and totaled my car. Nobody was hurt, but I missed the movie.
Then ...
Friday’s stuff is gonna be late
This is Eric's Fat Brother, Jeff. I just got a phone call from Eric informing me that a storm has knocked out the power in his entire neighborhood, which means he has no computerly way to post his normal movie reviews and "In the Dark" and whatever ...
Amazon update; shelled reptiles mate
An update on the Amazon associates program, wherein I get a small kickback every time you buy something from Amazon after navigating there from EricDSnider.com: We're having a banner quarter! Thanks to people doing their Christmas shopping (I assume)...
Something you should do
If you're going to get into a car accident, as I did tonight, the best place to do it, as I did tonight, is in the street right outside your apartment. That way, even if your car is no longer drivable, as mine is not, at least you don't have to call ...
Angry Letter: ‘Apocalypto’
Here is an e-mail I received in response to my review of "Apocalypto." The writer did not sign his name, but his e-mail address says "xtopher." Of course, when I replied to it, the e-mail bounced back as undeliverable, so perhaps it's a fictitious ad...
No ‘Snide Remarks’ today
No "Snide Remarks" today, kids, I'm sorry to inform you. I didn't have enough time this week to develop anything good. Back next week, though.
In the meantime, enjoy this mugshot of actor Rip Torn, taken when he was arrested for drunken driving la...
Friday movie roundup and podcast link – Dec. 8
This Friday movie round-up thing is becoming obsolete what with the podcast and all, but I suppose it's still a handy place to glance at this week's new titles.
"Apocalypto" is a crazy, bloody adventure from America's favorite raging alcoholic Jew...
Angry Letter: ‘Little Man,’ I think
This is one of the most baffling angry letters I've ever received, and an alarming indictment of our education system. I literally had to read it three times before I could figure out what it meant.
First, the e-mail's subject line: i thought of l...
The inevitable ‘Snide Remarks’ podcast is now a reality, too
Do you like "Snide Remarks"? Sure, we all do. But sometimes actually READING it can be such a chore. Your eyes have to scan across the page, and then then neurons have to send signals to the brain to interpret the meaning of the letters and symbols a...
To the person who bought the Tri-Conderoga Triangular Pencils, No.2, 12-BX
I don't know who you are. When people click an Amazon link from this site and subsequently buy something, I get a small kickback. I know what items were purchased, but I have no way of knowing who bought them.
The commission percentage is usually ...
The ‘In the Dark’ movie review PODCAST, long dreamed of, is now a reality
Hey! This bandwagon just pulled up outside my house, and I figured I might as well jump on it! At the bottom of this post is a link to the very first edition of the "In the Dark" movie review podcast!
That's right, kids, a podcast, just like all t...
Friday movie roundup – Dec. 1
Three wide releases open today, this first weekend in the last month of 2006. (Where does the time go?) One is appropriate for the season, and two are not.
The one that fits is "The Nativity Story," a faithful and modestly uplifting reenactment of...
Eric Recommends: ‘Thanksgiving Night’
"Thanksgiving Night," by Richard Bausch. Bausch is evidently a writer of some renown, but I hadn't heard of him until his latest novel, "Thanksgiving Night," was recommended to me. It's a wonderfully written, marvelously redemptive piece of fiction a...
Friday movie roundup – ON A WEDNESDAY!!!!!!!!!
We'll have to make this quick, 'cuz it's 2 a.m. and I have to get up at 5 to catch a plane to California for Thanksgiving. (You see, I'm in such a hurry that I couldn't even spell out the word "because.")
Most of this year's holiday offerings are ...
Hyperbole much?
At the Internet Movie Database, users are invited to register and post mini-reviews of any film they choose. I was tickled by this one, of the upcoming film "The Fountain." As you read it, picture James Lipton of "Inside the Actors Studio" (or, if yo...
‘Must-See TV’ to apply to Thursdays again
Here's some momentous scheduling news. Starting Nov. 30, NBC's Thursday night lineup will be as follows: "My Name Is Earl," "The Office," "Scrubs," and "30 Rock," with "E.R." still finishing the night in the 10 p.m. slot.
Take a moment to ponder t...
Friday movie roundup – Nov. 17
A cartoon that's different from most other cartoons this year, plus a new entry in a series that had previously become too cartoonish. It's cartoon week at the movies!
First up, Daniel Craig is in as the new James Bond in "Casino Royale." People w...
Angry Letter: Dumb people don’t like having their dumbness pointed out
Because I was tired of people asking me for celebrities' e-mail addresses -- even though nothing on my site implies I would have them -- I put a warning on my e-mail page saying this:
STOP: If you are going to ask Eric how to contact a celebrity, ...
