A very good movie, although it won't be a classic. Directed by Christopher Nolan ("Memento," "Batman Begins"), base...

In honor of Halloween, I decided to read a Batman graphic novel mtreiten gave me a while back. It's called Haunted Knight , and it'...

I'm noticing that several of the shows I watch play cute tricks with time. I know that they will, for instance, have a Christmas episod...

I didn't blog Lost or Smallville this week, because they seemed like placeholder episodes. Which is not to say that they weren't i...

Just have to say, I was a little bummed when I found out "Astromonkeys" hadn't made the cut for the Best of Universe antholog...

So Prison Break finally returned tonight, and it's still an awfully frustrating show, one part action thriller, one part conspiracy mys...

Taking a break from the TV blogging for a second. I'll be back with Monday night recaps soon enough. I've been going through a crisi...

I've heard several people say this, but Jonah Goldberg at National Review Online says it as well as anybody: ...good TV shows have beco...

I've been kind of standoffish about Lost this so far this season, partly because of The (Fictional) Prisoners' Dilemma I described...

One of the best moments in Stephen King's Misery is when Annie goes into a long rant about movie serials and the way they would change ...

Is it just me, or does Shatner look like a burn victim in his new DirecTV commercial? It looks like he's had some bad work done (of cour...

The one cardinal rule that the producers of Smallville decided to adhere to when they started the series was, "No capes; no flying....

Lost is taking an interesting approach at the beginning of this season. Aware that viewers have been frustrated in the past by a lack of an...

I'm too lazy to look up how to do umlauts, so let's assume I know how to spell Schrodinger correctly and move on. The North Koreans...

Prison Break is on hiatus, and I just couldn't bring myself to watch Fashion House , so this is all Heroes and Studio 60 . Three episo...

So Dallas is fighting and scrapping and struggling, and somehow manages to stay only a touchdown behind Philadelphia. And with 30-ish second...

Prison Break 's on hiatus during the hated baseball playoffs (seriously, you guys may love them, but they are a major pain in the ass fo...

The Lost season opener was last night. I liked many aspects of it, although I was not thrilled that I will apparently have to wait until ep...

So I took a few days off (or was it a week? More? Losing track of time here) from the book, which I am beginning to hate, to write a short s...

Got bored last night while The Wife was on the computer, so on a whim, I pulled out an old book I had on the shelf, titled The Best of Scien...