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Okay, having just watched this movie for the second time (and the first time in its entirety), I can say it's my second-favorite all tim...

Here's a sentence I've wanted to write for years. Woody Allen is back. See, Woody went away for a while. In 1999, he wrote and direc...

The Ventriloquists will play a live performance at 14 Below in Santa Monica this Friday night at 11 pm. You should come, and be the envy of...

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This 1987 British comedy has become something of a cult hit over in the UK, but it has never made much of an impression over here. I've ...

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The most popular name for dogs in America is once again Max. I guess there's nothing surprising there...I knew a guy with a dog named Ma...

How about a double shot of stupid for a Friday evening. I'm talking, of course, about Fox News' resident chimp John Gibson commenti...

A man has petitioned the US Board of Geographic Names to rename Mount Diablo in Oakley, California. Cause, you know, he doesn't like t...

The old British film industry always struck me as kind of charming. There were all these little production houses, like Ealing Studios or Ha...