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Some baffling movie data
Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti!
2-time Oscar nominee Miranda Richardson!
Oscar winner Rachel Weisz!
Oscar winner Kathy Bates!
2-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey!
The film: "Fred Claus"
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Oscar winner Nicolas Cage!
Oscar winner Jon Vo...
The difference between ‘right’ and ‘legal’
I've been thinking about the Westboro Baptist Church lawsuit, and how it reflects on the difference between something being "right" and something being "legal."
The facts are these. Headed by Fred Phelps, the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan...
How the Hollywood writers strike affects YOU
You may have heard snippets of news items about an impending Hollywood writers strike and didn't let the magnitude of the situation sink in. Perhaps you were in denial. But I'm here to tell you that it is real, and that it will probably be disastrous...
No ‘Snide Remarks’ due to writers strike
As you may have heard, the Hollywood writers are on strike as of today, and so in solidarity, I have refused to write a "Snide Remarks" column.
J/K! I'm totally J/K. The reason I didn't write one is that I didn't have any ideas. But it sounds so m...
‘Stalking Santa’ coming to DVD … and skipping theaters
Remember "Stalking Santa," the fun mockumentary about a guy trying to prove the existence of Santa Claus? Sure you do! I posted a review several months back, and alerted you to some screenings in the Provo area.
Now I have good news and bad news. ...
Friday movie roundup – Nov. 2
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A couple weeks ago we had like six new movies, and they were all rated R. Today there are three new wide releases, and t...
Angry Letter: I don’t know what it’s about, but my whiteness is to blame (again)
I got this e-mail today:
Well eric the George Lopez was funny my family really enjoyed it. The caveman show is a total waste of film nothing funny about,they should had left it just has a commerical. Let me quess your white thats why you are so lame...
What Halloween needs is more cowbell
Were you thinking you'd like to be Christopher Walken for Halloween but didn't know how to pull it off? You are in luck! Someone has made a mask that you can print off, cut out, and attach to your face.
Here it is in action. Either it's meant for ...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘It’s All True’
One of the categories of "Snide Remarks" columns is Columns That Eric Finds Much, Much Funnier Than Anyone Else. This week's "Snide Remarks" Classic, from Aug. 8, 2001, is a prime example. It's called "It's All True," and it's a list of interesting t...
Angry Letter: ‘Why Did I Get Married’
Just as my review of Tyler Perry's "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" elicited angry letters, so has my review of his latest, "Why Did I Get Married?" My conversations with other film critics lead me to understand that I am not alone. The e-mail's sender l...
Free Taco Bell tomorrow!
Hey, taco fans! Don't forget that tomorrow (Tuesday) from 2-5 p.m., every person in America is entitled to eat a free taco at Taco Bell! (Note I said "entitled," not "obligated.")
This is because Taco Bell pledged that if someone stole a base duri...
Pants are addressed in ‘Snide Remarks’
This week, "Snide Remarks" tackles the very important topic of pants, and the wearing thereof, in an entry entitled "The Saggy Bottom Boys." There are some important visual components, as well as an audio element, so at least two of your senses will ...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 26
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Here's why I'm sick of the "Saw" movies.
In the pre-"Saw" days, you could usually count on one seriously lousy horror...
Cimberli: I really get a cick out of you
A 33-year-old middle school principal in Houston is being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with one of her 14-year-old students. There are about 10 news stories like this every day, so I'm not very interested in the details of this one...
Eric Recommends: ‘Heart-Shaped Box’
I haven't read a lot of scary novels. Not intentionally; it just hasn't turned out that way. So maybe it doesn't mean much when I tell you that Joe Hill's "Heart-Shaped Box" is the scariest book I've ever read.
It is the story of an aging heavy me...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘(His)panic Attacks’
This week's "Snide Remarks" Classic column might just make you stand up and say "¡Olé!" I mean, probably not, but you never know. It's about illegal immigration, and it's called "(His)panic Attacks," and it was originally published on May 8, 2006. ...
Alexa tells me how important I am: not very
TV has the Nielsen ratings. Radio has Arbitron. But how is Internet viewership measured? The closest thing we have is Alexa, which ranks websites in order of popularity. The catch: It only monitors the activity of people who have the Alexa toolbar in...
Halloween fun at Cinematical
My Cinematical overlords love Halloween, so we've been celebrating this month with retrospective reviews, lists, and other features, all related to scary movies.
Naturally, I'm here to tell you about my three contributions: a commemoration of "Twi...
My secret shame: a follow-up
I told you last week that I was headed to a press screening of Ridley Scott's new, final director's cut of "Blade Runner," and I said my secret shame was that I'd never seen the film before. I asked what your secret shames are, and you responded!
...
Al Gore and the Dalai Lama share ‘Snide Remarks’ space
"Snide Remarks" is back today with a current-events-themed entry called "A Nobel Gesture." As always, the audio version is available at the top of the page I just linked to; it's also here. You can also subscribe to the "Snide Remarks" podcast and ge...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 19
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It's another active week for movies. Between last week's huge list and today's, I have been busier than the proverbial o...
‘Aliens in America’ provides crackpot with excuse to hate Muslims
Someone posted a comment on my review of TV's "Aliens in America" that I suppressed because it's jaw-droppingly bigoted and I didn't want it posted without being able to respond to it. I guess I could have just deleted it and been done with it, but y...
Crazy lady sounds off on water usage
Last year, I wrote a "Snide Remarks" column about a Portland woman who had bought an ad in the ballot information booklet urging people to vote against the library levy -- which is to say, she was in favor of closing down the county libraries.
A l...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Jihad to Be You’
It may surprise you to learn that I've only ever received one Cease & Desist letter, and it was from Gary Larson! It pertained to "Jihad to Be You," published Feb. 20, 2006, which is this week's "Snide Remarks" Classic.The subject matter was the ...
My secret shame
Warner Bros. is releasing a new, digitally remastered director's cut of "Blade Runner." There was a version some years ago called a "director's cut," but the director, Ridley Scott, actually had nothing to do with it and publicly disowned it. This ti...
Film.com article: Historical inaccuracies in movies
As further compensation for my failure to produce a "Snide Remarks" column this week, check out today's entry at Film.com, "Hollywood Is Terrible with History." It contains gems such as this:
If you watch closely in the famous chariot-race scene i...
Tragic absence of ‘Snide Remarks’ mitigated somewhat by consolation prize
There is no new "Snide Remarks" this week. Believe me, I am just as traumatized by this news as you are. Well, perhaps slightly less, since I've had all weekend to get used to it, whereas you have been blind-sided by the news first thing on a Monday ...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 12
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Good heavens, we sure have a lot of new films opening this weekend. A trend I note among several of them: beautiful ci...
A couple of gay (meaning merry and fun) links
What do Wayne Newton, Tony Curtis, and Clay Aiken have in common? Behold: Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians.
And below, fictional presidential candidate Kim McFriendly, a former Republican senator from the state of Heartland, offers her defense of Se...
TV reviews: ‘Life Is Wild,’ ‘Moonlight’
"Life Is Wild" (Sundays, The CW): Here's a nice little family drama about a Brady Bunch-style clan (each parent brought a son and daughter into the arrangement) that moves to South Africa for a year to live at their grandpa's old run-down resort and ...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Long, Dark Night of the Soul’
Our "Snide Remarks" Classic this week is "Long, Dark Night of the Soul," from Feb. 6, 2006, in which I eat too much Hershey's dark chocolate for your amusement. If you were to divide all the "Snide Remarks" columns into categories, one major division...
Eric Recommends: ‘My Holocaust’
"My Holocaust," by Tova Reich, is a relentlessly savage satire about the modern-day religion of Victimism, where everybody wants in on the martyr action in order to feel special about themselves.
Its central character is Maurice Messer, an old Jew...
TV reviews: ‘Pushing Daisies,’ ‘Aliens in America’
Here they are, folks: the best new hour-long series and half-hour series of the season!
"Pushing Daisies" (Wednesday, ABC): The pilot is one of the most colorful, cinematic, magical TV episodes I've ever seen. It's like a Roald Dahl story come to ...
Eric was on the radio, of all places
My friend Mike Russell couldn't fulfill his normal duties as movie critic on KUFO's Cort and Fatboy program Friday night, so I stepped in for the assist. The guys were broadcasting live from Portland's Bagdad Theater in conjunction with their 11 p.m....
Special Columbus Day edition of ‘Snide Remarks’
In honor of Columbus Day, this week's "Snide Remarks" is about Filipinos who got mad about a joke on "Desperate Housewives." The column is entitled "A Mild Pinoyance," and the audio version of it can be found here, or you can listen to it right there...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 5
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The wide releases this weekend are nothing to write home about -- but then again, why would you be writing home about mo...
Two funny videos, one intentional, one not
This one made me laugh a lot. All you need to know is what's in the "About This Video" tag: that it was written, edited, and directed by men. (Note: Contains some bleeped-out profanity.)
And then there's this, which is hilarious but unintentionall...
TV reviews: ‘Cavemen,’ ‘Carpoolers’
"Cavemen" (Tuesdays, ABC): This laugh-track-free sitcom about a race of cavemen who live in modern society isn't the televisiopacolypse we thought it would be ... but it's not particularly good, either. The pilot episode was screened earlier this yea...
‘Twilight’ movie news: It has a director
I know a lot of you are big fans of Stephenie Meyer's book "Twilight" and its sequels, about the teenage girl who falls in love, as so many of us have, with a vampire. (I liked the first book quite a bit, though some of the swoony-teenage-girly parts...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Ten Little Idiots’
The official 10th anniversary of "Snide Remarks" was last week, but that doesn't mean we're through commemorating it with a "Snide Remarks" Classic every Wednesday. No sir or madam! We'll keep it up until 2007 is over, and maybe even into 2008, altho...
TV reviews: ‘Life,’ ‘Dirty Sexy Money’
"Life" (Wednesdays, NBC): What a terrible, unimaginative title for such a fine show! It's about a police detective who has just been released from prison after serving 12 years of a life sentence before new evidence proved he was innocent after all. ...
Letterman gives Paris Hilton a good slappin’
This clip of Paris Hilton appearing on Letterman the other night is a reminder of something I occasionally forget: David Letterman is a national treasure. He may have gone a little soft in recent years, but this merciless -- and funny -- skewering of...
Monday festivities: new ‘Snide Remarks,’ some late reviews
"Snide Remarks" enters its 11th year with a familiar topic: fatness and dieting. This week's installment is called "Ahead of the Curves," and you'll find the audio version here as well as at the top of the page itself.
(We've slightly improved t...
TV reviews: ‘Reaper,’ ‘Bionic Woman’
"Reaper" (Tuesdays, The CW): The buzz surrounding this supernatural action comedy is true: It's a winner. The premise is that a slacker's parents sold his soul to the devil, payable when he turns 21, and now that the day has arrived, the devil has hi...
Friday movie roundup – Sept. 28
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The best new film this weekend is "The Kingdom," starring Jamie Foxx as an FBI agent who leads a small team to investiga...
TV reviews: ‘Chuck,’ ‘Journeyman’
NBC already has the best night of comedy on TV, with "My Name Is Earl," "The Office," "30 Rock," and "Scrubs" on Thursdays. Now it looks like they've got the best block of sci-fi/fantasy, too, with "Chuck," "Heroes," and "Journeyman" on Mondays. We a...
Film.com and Cinematical stories: a round-up
Since you can't be expected to keep up everything I write -- heck, even I don't always read what the Laotian kids in my sweatshop crank out before I put my name on it and send it to the editors -- I thought I'd list some of the more noteworthy en...
TV review: ‘The Big Bang Theory’
"The Big Bang Theory" (Mondays, CBS): Despite being from the creator of "Two and a Half Men," the pilot episode of this sitcom actually made me laugh quite a bit. It's about two super-intelligent science nerds, Leonard and Sheldon, who share an L.A. ...
Where is the creepy Amanda Bynes guy?
After I reviewed "Hairspray" in July, I got this e-mail from a reader named Jeff:
I can't believe you made it through whole "Hairspray" review, even mentioning Amanda Bynes by name, without making reference to that 40+ year old creepy guy that hos...
‘Snide Remarks’: The 10 best columns of the last 10 years
This week's "Snide Remarks" features my favorite kind of indulgence: self-indulgence! It's my top 10 list of what I consider to be the best "Snide Remarks" columns ever, in conjunction with the feature's 10th anniversary -- which is this Saturday, ...
Friday movie roundup – Sept. 21
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There's a metric shload of new movies this weekend, and three of them are excellent and thought-provoking. How often i...
TV reviews: ‘Back to You,’ ‘Gossip Girl’
"Back to You" (Wednesdays, Fox): "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer and "Everybody Loves Raymond" star Patricia Heaton play Pittsburgh news anchors who are reunited when he comes crawling back after failing in L.A. He's pompous and arrogant; she's exasper...
Earth: Flat or round? ‘View’ co-host unsure
I don't watch "The View." In fact, I can't even imagine watching it. The very thought makes me shudder. The small clips I've seen convince me I've made the right choice in not allowing a band of shrieking women who constantly talk over each other ent...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Addición: Flautas’
I was sad to learn on a recent trip to Salt Lake City that my beloved Cafe Pierpont -- home of such Mexican entrees as the life-changing flautas -- had closed. I guess the building got sold and the new owner is turning it into something else. Somet...
TV review: ‘K-Ville’
"K-Ville" (Mondays, Fox): As bland and generic a cop show as you can imagine. There's a loose-cannon cop (Anthony Anderson) and his mismatched partner (Cole Hauser), a gruff and blustery but ultimately soft-hearted captain (John Carroll Lynch), and t...
There is a slight chance that Rob Zombie might lack artistic integrity
Rob Zombie: "You see, the thing is, I'm oily and untalented."
Grotesque filmmaker Rob Zombie and black-hearted Batman-villain impersonator Dick Cheney don't have much in common. One delights in overseeing acts of cruelty and murder inflicted upo...
Yankee outfielder documents suckage of Red Sox for young fan
"Boo hoo! A guy from the team I hate hates the team I love! Boo hoo hoo!"
Amusing story in the Boston Herald today about 10-year-old Red Sox fan Griffin Whitman, who attended his first Yankees vs. Red Sox game on Friday. Afterward, he managed to...
‘Snide Remarks’ addresses toilets, Shrek, and nieces
This week's "Snide Remarks," entitled "Uncle Shrek," has to do with the bathroom but is pleasant to read nonetheless. I think my mom will like it because it mentions her. On the other hand, it mentions her in the context of implying she is senile....
Friday movie roundup – Sept. 14
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Three wide releases this weekend, one better than expected, one worse than expected, and one not screened for critics ...
Comedy experiment: Does ‘Yakety Sax’ make everything funny?
I am posting this YouTube video with the understanding that many people will automatically find it distasteful. It's an interesting exercise in comedy, however, because it asks this question: Can "Yakety Sax" (the Benny Hill theme music; you'll recog...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: Caesarean Salad
Do you love alarming childbirth stories? I know I do! That's why I wrote a column about them, called "Caesarean Salad," which is this week's "Snide Remarks" Classic selection.
We're spotlighting a different old favorite each Wednesday in 2007 in...
Now writing for Cinematical: me
I am pleased to announce that, as part of my goal to write for every website on the Internet, I'm now on the blogging team at Cinematical!
Cinematical is an excellent source for movie news, with a couple dozen entries a day covering all manner o...
Tim Nasson: Still a crazy liar!
If you know anything about me, you know that I LOVE CRAZY PEOPLE. They are the spice of life. They make dull things interesting.
One of the craziest people I've ever encountered is Tim Nasson, whose awkward, poorly syntaxed writings appear at Wi...
The sort-of annual ‘Snide Remarks’ summer blockbuster recap
This week's "Snide Remarks" column, entitled "Smells Like Summer," is a wrap-up of the blockbusters that busted our blocks over the last several months. Please to enjoy, won't we?
It's an average-length column, but the SnideCast recording is sho...
Friday movie roundup – Sept. 7
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Three R-rated movies for you this week, all three of them good, and at least two of them liable to divide audiences co...
Fall TV season premiere dates
Behold! The list of season premiere dates for prime-time network programs (and one FX program, just because I really like it). Shows marked with an asterisk (*) are brand-new. Give 'em a try! Maybe they're good! Except "Cavemen," which obviously is...
Deseret News accidentally reprints a ‘Snide Remarks’ column; says whoops, our bad
After all these years, I can finally say I've been published in the Deseret News! I never really wanted to say that, but hey, a byline is a byline.
Unfortunately, I didn't get a byline at first. The Des News inadvertently took part in a wee bit ...
Two new Film.com items
Two new items from me at Film.com this week: one about Ang Lee's new NC-17 movie, and one that's sort of a recap of the summer box office. I wouldn't complain if you were to click over there and read them. No pressure, though. But it sure would be ...
The fat lady sings for Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti died early this morning in Italy, at home in the town he was born in 71 years ago.
He was famous as one of the Three Tenors, of course, and was probably responsible for causing more normal people to listen to opera than anyone el...
Late reviews: ‘Halloween’ and ‘Death Sentence’
Two films opened last Friday without timely advance screenings, and now I have the reviews for you: "Halloween" (verdict: bleh) and "Death Sentence" (verdict: OK!).
I had actually seen "Death Sentence" when I sent out "In the Dark" and posted the ...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: The adventures of Raoul
Every now and then a person enters your life and you think, "I could write a column about this person every week and never run out of material." Or at least that's what I think. Such a person for me was Pablo, known in "Snide Remarks" as Raoul, ...
They hucka the bejeepers
It's Labor Day and I'm still visiting friends and kinfolk in Utah, but I thought you might like to see this delightful YouTube video of Leslie Uggams completely blowing the lyrics to "June is Bustin' Out All Over" at a Rodgers and Hammerstein tribute...
Friday movie roundup & Film.com pimpage – Aug. 31
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Last call, everyone! This is your last call for summer movies! Anything released after today must be a "fall movie": Osc...
Wednesday movie roundup – ‘Balls of Fury’
"Balls of Fury," the only wide release this week that's actually being screened for critics, opens today. My review of it can be found at Film.com -- my first one for that organization. I'm so nervous! I hope I reviewed it OK!!!
If you're wondering,...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Tightening the Belt’
All throughout 2007, we're celebrating the 10th anniversary of "Snide Remarks" by spotlighting a different old column every Wednesday. It's like taking a stroll down memory lane. A slow, lurching stroll, since we only take one step a week, but s...
Now appearing at Film.com: Eric!
If you wanted to make a website devoted to film, what would be the ideal location for it? Why, Film.com, of course! And if you wanted to drastically improve the quality of Film.com, whom would you hire to write reviews and commentaries three times a ...
Eric turns 33; still produces new ‘Snide Remarks’
Sunday was Totally Stupid Day (as some Provo jerk dubbed it years ago), also known as my birthday. How did you celebrate it? Did you think of me? I know I did!
One way I celebrated was by putting the finishing touches on today's "Snide Remarks" ...
Friday movie roundup – Aug. 24
Since next Friday is the start of Labor Day Weekend -- traditionally a slow time at the box office -- the studios know that today is really their last chance to dump a summertime film into theaters with any hope of anyone actually seeing it. Conseq...
Bruce Campbell sold separately
As long as we're posting funny videos we just discovered, here's a parody commercial for "Spider-Man 3" action figures that perfectly summarizes all the things that were wrong with that movie.
Hold it, Ma, don’t touch that muffin!
This has been posted a few places around the Internet over the past year, but it was only yesterday that I stumbled across it. Further research determined its source.
It's from "The Beatrice Arthur Special," which aired Jan. 19, 1980, on CBS. The ...
Eric guest blogs at C Jane Run
My birthday is this Sunday -- no gifts, please! But if you insist, here's my Amazon wish list -- and I share it with a friend of mine named Christopher. We were in the Garrens Comedy Troupe together back in the day, and then he married the sister of ...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘I Can See Queerly Now’
You'll have what the Flintstones would call a "gay old time" with this week's "Snide Remarks" Classic, "I Can See Queerly Now." That's because the column, published Aug. 10, 2003, talks about the trend of gay-themed TV shows that was developing ...
‘Snide Remarks’ 10th Anniversary Feature: The 10 worst columns
I've written more than 550 "Snide Remarks" columns in the last 10 years, and I'm not ashamed to say that some of them have been absolute crap. There are deadlines involved, you see, and writing "Snide Remarks" has never, even in its heyday, been...
Monday stuff: spider-based ‘Snide Remarks,’ and a late movie review
It was almost a year ago that I told you of my attitudes toward spiders, and this week's "Snide Remarks" column is a continuation of that theme. It is entitled "The Adventures of Spider and Man" and I do hope you enjoy it ever so much.
You might...
Friday movie roundup – Aug. 17
We've had some excellent comedies this summer, and now, as the season draws to a close, we're favored with "Superbad." It comes from the people behind "Knocked Up" and is every bit as funny as that film was. What a delightful pair of bookends for t...
Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction: How much have you read?
Prize-giver and fashion icon Joseph Pulitzer.
After reading "The Road," I wondered if it was the first Pulitzer Prize for Fiction I'd ever read. Certainly it's the first time I've read one so close to its winning: The awards were announced on Ap...
Eric Recommends: ‘The Road’
Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction this year and was on quite a few Best of 2006 lists. I have finally read it and can tell you it's one of the most beautiful, emotionally devastating books I've ever read.
It's set ...
Chris Sivertson makes bad movies but writes cool e-mails
See what I mean about the k.d. lang thing?
My pal Scott Weinberg wrote something for Cinematical the other day where he was talking about Chris Sivertson, the director of the recent Lindsay Lohan fiasco "I Know Who Killed Me." In the course of t...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Pet Peeves’
One organization I've frequently enjoyed mocking in "Snide Remarks" is PETA, and one such column is this week's "Snide Remarks" Classic. It's called "Pet Peeves" and it's from May 25, 2003.
Funny news stories about animals, and PETA. That's a...
An Instant Messenger exchange between my brother Jeff and me
An Instant Messenger exchange between my brother Jeff and me:
JEFF: is very much like that weiner, in that she dances from one subject to another without ever addressing the criticisms of what she says.
ME: Yeah, that's true.
JEFF: In ad...
1994 Cheney and 2003 Cheney do not see eye-to-eye
Oh, this is rich.
On April 15, 1994, Dick Cheney was asked about the United States' actions during the Gulf War three years earlier -- specifically, whether we should have pressed on into Baghdad and toppled Saddam Hussein then, as some people had w...
Muchas personas no comprenden el review de ‘El Cantante’
Whoever said Marc Anthony looks like this guy is a liar.
Readers have posted some interesting comments on my review of "El Cantante." Four people (so far) have completely misunderstood my very easy-to-understand review, one just seemed really an...
‘Snide Remarks’! And update! And review!
This week's "Snide Remarks" is the latest installment of a regular feature, "Ask Eric Stuff 28." The SnideCast® technology at the top of the column will allow you to listen to it if you don't like reading; the podcast does exactly the same thing e...
Friday movie roundup – Aug. 10
Let us pause to appreciate Michelle Pfeiffer. She did not appear onscreen for five years, from 2002's "White Oleander" until this summer. And now, suddenly, she is in two of the most genuinely delightful movies of the year -- "Hairspray" and "Stard...
Update on ‘Firefly’ and geekhood
I've been enjoying the "Firefly" screenings at Portland's Mission Theater these last few Tuesdays. It turns out I'd only seen five episodes of the series, so most of it is brand-new to me.
I'm not generally a sci-fi sort of person, and I admit s...
‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Mister Wind’
This week's "Snide Remarks" Classic column is #355, "Mister Wind," in which a trip to the mall results in a stroll down memory lane. It was originally published on April 20, 2003. April 20 is also Hitler's birthday, but that's not really relevan...
There’s usually a good reason they were deleted
Entertainment Weekly's Chris Nashawaty has a great interview with Matt Damon in the current issue. Damon comes off the way he always has: likable, funny, and level-headed.
In particular, I love what he says about deleted scenes on DVDs. He's talki...
Once a pun a time
An update on the situation with the movies that have pun titles: After I mentioned it last week (prompted by "Who's Your Caddy?"), several readers pointed out some films that use this sort of wordplay. Here's what they came up with:
"Octopussy"
"...
The sounds, the sights, the smells of a new ‘Snide Remarks’
This week's "Snide Remarks," entitled "Spanks for the Memories," is a multimedia affair! Words, pictures, a footnote with a sound file attached -- it's all in the service of telling you about some boys who went to jail for smacking a girl on the bu...
Friday movie roundup & fate bemoaning (Jon Voight’s and mine)
Sure, there are five new wide or semi-wide releases this weekend, but don't feel overwhelmed! Only two are worth seeing. You can ignore the others completely. Thank goodness!
The good ones are "The Bourne Ultimatum," which is every bit as good a...
