View image "There is no god!!!" Thanks for all the terrific, thoughtful suggestions for my hypothetical Atheist Film Festival (below) -- "Freddie Got Fingered" (either "proof" of the absence of god, or a devastating comment on the divine sense of…
Roger Ebert has another Answer Man item about the legendary Wilhelm Scream this week. These masterful film-history montages on YouTube explain everything: Past Answer Man items regarding the Wilhelm Scream: 07/06/0707/12/07
View image Is this man a "torture pornographer"? Strike that. Is he a "failure"? Letters from Filmmakers Part II: This one was published today at MSN Movies, a response from Eli Roth to an article by Don Kaye about the…
Baywatch: A down-to-earth, nice guy. A letter published in the Northwest Herald, Crystal Lake, Illinois: To the Editor: The Northwest Herald’s movie critic, Jeffrey Westhoff, seems to be woefully out of touch with pop culture. The “Transformers” movie’s $155 million…
Q. After reading your review of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," I note that you are the only critic I know of who feels that the increasing darkness of the series is a barrier, as opposed to…
View image The first of Johnny. (Notice the indistinct image of Tom making his entrance in the background.) (and it ain't nuttin' about et'ics). Every single time I shave I think of Johnny Caspar. I can't help it. And it's…
View image "Nobody wants to jump in the mud puddle with her." (Enlarge to see the Creature's mysterious adam's apple.) Elizabeth Edwards says this in a Salon interview: Ignoring the fact that she exists doesn't make her go away. If…
Jesus W. Bush. Forget Christopher Hitchens on Iraq. The author of the "controversial" "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" (9 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, now at number 2 -- but only among people who…
Q. I noticed that several times you referred to the good Transformers as "Transformers" and not as Autobots. In the movie, Optimus Prime tells Sam that he can call his group the Autobots for short. Both the Decepticons and the…
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