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When I made reservations for the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village on Thursday night, I knew the headliner was Dave Attell, star of Insomniac on Comedy Central.  What actually happened that night could not have been any better. As we were waiting outside the club to check in and get our number for the queue, [...]

Opening on the same weekend as another 80s remake, The A-Team, one of my favorite shows as a kid, delivered a testosterone-filled, action-packed incarnation of the popular TV show of the same name.  It was an entertaining time filled with enough explosions to make Jerry Bruckheimer jealous. The film’s plot was centered around the robbery [...]

After three films that were met with varying reviews, Shrek Forever After begged an obvious question (why?) with an even more obvious answer (because the series has generated over a $1 billion in the United States alone). The final installment is a marked improvement over Shrek 3, but it fails to recapture the magic of [...]

Once again, I have to admit I couldn’t look away from the computer this afternoon as perennial trainwreck Lindsay Lohan appeared before a visibly upset judge in California. The short-version of why she was in court is that she was arrested for DUI in 2007, placed on probation, and as a condition of her probation, [...]

For those of you expecting the “rob from the rich and give to the poor” Robin Hood, or the “courting Maid Marian” Robin Hood, or the man with a “band of merry men” Robin Hood, this movie by Ridley Scott isn’t for you. Scott, who 10 years ago famously directed Gladiator, has his cinema-mainstay Russell [...]