The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

I recently saw 'The Imitation Game', the new Benedict Cumberbatch movie about the role of Alan Turing in solving the Enigma Code in ...

Part 1. CC: I'm off to see that movie, Selma , tonight. Shylock: Here's a prediction for you. I'll bet you that at absolutel...

Political correctness, like all successful forms of social censorship, tends to go through two phases. There is a loud phase, where averag...

Apparently they're making a movie called '42' . Knowing only this much about the movie, it's a useful way to segment peopl...

At the risk of being entirely self-obsessed (the peanut gallery: a blogger? No!), I found myself thinking about  something I wrote the other...

I saw the Lincoln movie the other day. Regarding the earlier sort-of-prediction, you sure got the point, but not the counterpoint . I felt...

I ended up watching '500 Days of Summer' the other day. After checking my testes at the door, it actually wasn't that bad. For...

Famed internet movie critic Jabrody  has a list of the 50 most memorable movie characters, parts 26-50 , 11-25 and 1-10 . Check it out. I...

If you want further evidence that the Dredd idea about order is a reactionary one, consider this great statement of principle from famous r...

The new Judge Dredd movie is actually surprisingly good. It's at 76% on Rotten Tomatoes , which is unusually high for an action movie. ...

So I managed to be perhaps the last person in America to watch 'The Dark Knight Rises'. It reinforced everything I've thought ab...

When the premise of the movie begins as follows: "X is a (movie/book/etc.) writer who has enjoyed past critical success. But he  finds...

Let me start with the punchline: If you've ever run a regression in your life, you should definitely see the movie  Moneyball . This...