‘Bruno’ is brilliant, but it’ll bring you down (Movie review)
Continuing gay week here at my blog, I saw “Bruno” last night. Here’s my conclusion: Sacha Baron Cohen is a brilliant performance artist. And don’t see this movie.
OK, fine, Dumbledore is gay. But Buffy is straight, dammit (Comic book commentary)
I don’t think I’m homophobic. I believe gay people should have equal rights to straight people in every respect (marriage, serving in the military, etc.) And I think Ross Mathews is the funniest of “Chelsea […]
‘Dead Like Me’: The best show ever about a dead girl named George (TV review)
Ellen Muth is one of the harder to categorize actresses out there. As George Lass — the audience-surrogate reaper on “Dead Like Me” — she went around with a depressive look all the time. Of […]
My prediction: We’ll get another ‘Harry Potter’ novel someday (Book commentary)
The “Harry Potter” saga is confined to Harry’s seven years at Hogwarts, plus the flashback memories — via Tom Riddle’s diary or Dumbledore’s Pensieve — and the epilogue that shows Harry and friends as adults. […]
5 random items of note (Commentary)
1. Do you ever get a Facebook friend request from someone you’ve never heard of? I usually just ignore it. This is kind of unfortunate, because now I have no chance of becoming friends with […]
6th ‘Harry Potter’ film is a beautiful work of art — and sometimes it’s even a bit funny (Movie review)
J.K. Rowling did her best writing on “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” and the filmmakers rise to her level to make the series’ best film by far. When a much-loved piece of literature is adapted to […]
I like ‘I Love You, Beth Cooper’ well enough, but I don’t love it
Movie review: This Hayden Panettiere starrer has its moments, but it isn’t quite a night to remember.
Random plug for a good column: Life in the Cubicle by Dudley B. Dawson (Internet commentary)
As a student in the 1990s, my favorite genre of TV shows and movies was high school stories (the latest example of the “last day of high school” subgenre has recently arrived in the form […]
Sharks, creepy islanders and even a bit of surfing: It’s good to have ‘Beyond the Break’ back (TV review)
In the summer of 2006, I gave “Beyond the Break” a C+ in a review, ranking it behind its contemporaries “Falcon Beach,” “South of Nowhere” and “Degrassi: The Next Generation.” Now it’s back (The-N started running Season […]
‘10 Things I Hate About You’ saves the summer season (TV review)
I don’t think I’ve seen the Julia Stiles-Heath Ledger movie of the same name, or if I did, it made no impression on me. So I don’t know what the title means, but I do […]