The First of May (review)

As undemanding family fare goes, the best you can hope for is that you don’t want to shoot yourself when it’s over, and by that measure, this gentle if unprepossessing flick succeeds.

Baby Mama (review)

Why don’t we get movies that acknowledge the deeply weird wonderfulness of all this chaotic and confusing and hilarious life stuff? Are there any adults anywhere today?

scenes from New York Comic Con 2008: costumes

It was nonstop Halloween at New York Comic Con, which featured some very serious costuming… like, on a level so professional it was easy to believe that really was a Jedi Knight or a Stormtrooper wandering the showfloor… (More after the jump…) Even superheroes get tired: These guys were from The Fedora Chronicles: Where else … more…

daily list: 7 frakkin’ cool substitute swear words

Four years into Battlestar Galactica, AdAge finally catches on that frak means fuck and that hey, maybe this means that standards on American TV are finally loosening up a bit. Somehow, I doubt it. Even if AdAge did entirely miss the fact that characters on Saving Grace, which airs on TNT, have regularly and casually … more…