Superman, the ideal representation of truth, justice and the American way, is now being portrayed by Henry Cavill, a Brit. While I don’t think it’s xenophobic to have a problem with that, I do think that if it’s a punishment, it’s one we deserve. An American icon, Superman was created…
Today is the birthday of Newman’s Own best selling product, the late Paul Newman, everyone’s favorite cool-eyed and irreverent actor/philanthropist. He can’t so much celebrate his birthday, being deceased, but everyone else can — and surely they will, running some retrospective of the man and his work. We, too, feel…
Fresh from the movie news wire comes the announcement that Anne Hathaway will play Catwoman in the third entry to Chris Nolan’s gritty Batman series, inexplicably titled The Dark Knight Rises (probably because these movies make everyone involved a lot of dough). The character was introduced in the first official…
America’s favorite action auteur-savant, Michael Bay, has spent years telling whoever will listen that his directional style is too hardcore for 3D, that adding depth would be too extreme and punishing on the average filmgoer. With last week’s official announcement that Transformers: Dark of the Moon (dude, it totally syncs…
