You may have heard the news that comic book sales were slightly down in July and the there’s been a slightly downward trend in these things. What you likely haven’t heard is the bottom of the sales charts is way up in July.
When Diamond issues its sales list and ICV2 does its estimates, there are 300 […]

You’ve heard that CBS is reviving the classic police procedural “Hawaii Five-O.”  Now rumors are coming out of Springfield that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich will be leaving office to star as Chris McGarrett, son of the orignal Five-O’s Steve McGarrett and giving a Blago a chance to follow the path of his coif-idol, Jack Lord.

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Going to Europe makes sense for Ben Gordon. I don’t just say that because it’s become so fashionable for restricted free agents to take themselves out of the market in a year when there’s little salary cap space open, either.
As ESPN reported early this morning, Ben Gordon proclaimed that he’d played his last game as a […]

The Cavaliers improved their starting line-up in a three-team trade also involving the Milwaukee Bucks and Oklahoma City Carpetbaggers (formerly Seattle Sonics).
The net result is the Cav’s end up with point guard Mo Williams. Oklahoma City gets small forward Desmond Mason and power forward/center (and expiring contract) Joe Smith. The Bucks get point guard Luke Ridnour, combo […]

Tropic Thunder has a ridiculous amount of star power attached to it. Sure, you’ve seen trailers with Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey, Jr. Thing is, Nick Nolte, Matthew McConaughey and Tom Cruise each show up in supporting roles. Yes, I said Tom Cruise, but we’ll get back to him in a bit. You’ve also got Steve Coogan […]

Recently, I was detoured by a couple of semi-reformed club kids to one of Chicago’s allegedly hotter and trendier clubs. Fortunately, Paris Hilton was not in attendance that night, but there was plenty else to find unintentionally funny.
We started out in The Line. The Chicago market really doesn’t tolerate much over 3 places with the New York-style […]

They sure picked the wrong year to release a new Mummy movie. Don’t get me wrong, I liked the film, but you figure the summer already has seen two stellar action movies in The Dark Knight and Iron Man, a new Indiana Jones movie (and the Mummy series has always been, in a sense, Indiana Jones […]

Hamlet 2 is a strange film. It’s not for everyone and probably will not play well to older and/or more conservative audience. The conservative ones it sends up. The older ones won’t get parts of the humor.
Figure the co-writers on this are Pam Brady whose writing credits include South Park and Team America, and Andrew Fleming whose very […]

The so-called “modern” apartment building has all manners of perks our parents never saw, and with those perks can come a real freak show. If you live in a building with a gym on-site, odds are the gym rules are a little more lax than the local health club and there’s a whole new cast of […]

The X-Files: I Want to Believe really is just a film length episode of the TV series. In fact, its so low key an episode, I’m stunned this is the story they decided to use for a feature film.
You can divide X-Files episodes into two kinds of stories: aliens and monsters. The monster stories can further be […]