Something that I noticed around halfway through director Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are, the adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic 1963 children's book that has, thus far, drawn only modest praise: There really aren't that many divorced...

A Serious Man begins strangely, if you consider where it spends the majority of its run time. Sometime in the 1800's, a man comes home in the dead of night to his wife, who is busy cracking ice in a bucket. He bears strange news: On the way home, his...

If you're anything like me, then Paul Verhoven's 1987 classic Robocop is embarrassingly high on a hypothetical "Best Movies Ever!" list. Say, top 25 or so. Maybe 26, depending on the last time you saw Total Recall. If you've seen Robocop, you're...

You probably don't need me to figure this one out, but Sarah Palin's autobiography is going to be huge. The same crowd of people who buy those Wal-Mart exclusive albums from bands who peaked in the mid 1970's are going to eat this book up like hotcakes...