Content tagged with "entertainment"

Ebert was best when a movie pissed him off.

So Annie and I went and saw David Copperfield tonight at the Washington Pavilion. It was a good show. I honestly couldn’t figure out a lot of the tricks. As with many magicians, a lot of the show revolves around random people in the audience. He had some neat methods to pick these people. You always…

I just got done reading “Casino Royale” for the third or fourth time. This is the original novel, from 1953. It was the first James Bond novel, written by Ian Fleming from his estate in Jamaica. There are four excerpts I always remember about the book. I often page through to find them, so I figured…

I’ve become awfully smitten with the TNT series Leverage. it’s a dramedy about a team of five con artists who play Robin Hood, stealing from the rich and powerful and returning money to those they’ve wronged . I figured out why I like it so much: it’s the re-incarnation of The A-Team. The team…

I’m not against nudity in media, so long as it has a point.

I loved this profile of Phil Hartman written by Jack Handey, who was an SNL writer for decades . He could do any accent. He could play menacing or frightened He could basically do it all. You’d hand him the ball and he’d punch it over the goal line. If he couldn’t, the ball you handed him was…

So, I saw Avatar the other night. I was finally prompted to go because it’s coming out on DVD in about a month, so I figured this was my last chance to catch it in the theater. Alec came with me, though he had already seen it. I was mildly disappointed that I couldn’t see it in 3D – that version had…

I love “The Incredibles.” it’s one of my favorite movies, and when it’s on, I drop everything and glue myself to the couch. I tried to figure out why I love this movie so much, and I came up with a number of reasons: I love the story of Mr. Incredible’s rebirth. He’s living a boring, everyday life,…