A friend told me that Greg Kinnear made an appearance pushing Flash of Genius on the TV talk show The View.

Blindness is a disappointment.

My grandmother had a string of Chihuahuas. When one died, she got another.

There must be an unwritten rule that says that characters in a teen film must be preoccupied with themselves, filled with angst and abuse substances illegal to the age group.

Bill Maher doesn’t like religion. He finds it to be a deterrent to the progress of humanity.

The last time we saw Paul Newman we really didn't see him.

Eagle Eye is a common chase movie with an equally common twist.

What the hell happened Spike Lee?

Diehard romantics love Nicholas Sparks' books and the movies based on them.

You’ve seen so many sports movies involving teens that you can write the script yourself.

On August 7, 1974, Frenchman Philippe Petit strung a wire between the World Trade Center’s twin towers.

Director James Longley’s Iraq in Fragments first looks at the plight of an uneducated Sunni kid on a dead-end path in Baghdad.

Quiet villainy works.

When I first heard of Ghost Town I thought it might be a Western.

Two friends and two female companions head to a remote cabin to write a horror movie.

Imaginative movie concepts are the proverbial dime-a-dozen.

Righteous Kill has three serious flaws.

The title fits.

The Women is a head-scratcher.

American Teen follows the reality TV formula. A camera crew tracks five teens -- three boys, two girls -- and their friends for 10 months.

Movies are supposed to separate you from reality. Traitor accomplishes the task by immersing you in reality and then insisting it be suspended.

There is nothing wrong with Hamlet 1.

The premise of The House Bunny is as empty as the vacuous mind of its ex-Playboy bunny lead character. However, in the hands of Legally Blonde writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith the topic is a treat.

Blood. Gore. Gruesome death.

In politically correct America, I’m one of the few people I know not easily offended.

A long time ago in a galaxy not so far, far away, a lot of us quit caring about George Lucas and Star Wars.

I’ve wasted a couple of hours trying to infuse clever insect puns into a review of Fly Me to the Moon.

Meet the movie that knocks off The Dark Knight.

Every year, the American Film Institute publishes a top 100 movies of all time.

Here’s the positive: David Gordon Green directs Pineapple Express.

Kevin Costner plays an uneducated, non-involved, apolitical, drunk.

In 1944, horror movie legend Lon Chaney Jr. forever defined Mummy movies.

I never watched the X-Files TV series, and I don’t remember much about the 1998 X-Files movie except that everyone wondered if agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully would get it on and make it the Sex-Files.

No step brotherly love here, just a cold, hard negative review.

Movies based on comic book characters generate a lot of buzz. Fans of the genre are obsessed. I used to be that way waiting for the next Spider-man comic as a kid.

The Dark Knight is a complex and violent tale of clashing egos.

True confession time.

In 1959, Jules Verne's novel Journey to the Center of the Earth was 100 years old. I was 10 that year and caught the movie at the Benton Theater in downtown Kennewick.

We see these names all the time, but how the heck to you pronounce them?

Superman has the Fortress of Solitude, Batman his cave. Will Smith's super-powered Hancock has a bottle of booze and a bus bench. When sober enough to do a good deed, Hancock causes car crashes, breaks windows, damages buildings and hurts innocent people. Most hate him, and some have filed multimillion-dollar lawsuits that are ignored.

Writer/director Andrew Stanton (both Toy Storys, Finding Nemo) is a genius. Packed with imagery, WALL*E is multidimensional. Dig a little deeper, and those dimensions have dimensions. While humorously exploring a multitude of social issues unique to this generation, Stanton's story also is simple, and he connects his cute robots to your kids and the kid in you. WALL*E is a first-rate, rivet-you-to-your-seat laugh fest.

Out of the ideas Hollywood can't resist comes the urge to rehash old TV sitcoms.

The more than 600 members of the Western Writers of America just picked their top 100 movie westerns of all time. Shane from 1953 sits in the top spot.

My great grandfather raised my father.

Ang Lee's 2003 semi-live action Hulk was lambasted by critics and fans. Most complaints centered on the cartoony CGI-generated Hulk when star Eric Bana hulked-out.

Who writes to me and on what subject is fascinating.

Adam Sandler's superstardom is based on plots crammed with lewd, suggestive and often objectionable bathroom humor that borders the hard edge between PG-13 and R. This is stuff your average 15-year-old finds funny.

Adam Sandler has a new movie.

Though I never watched Sex in the City, I know quite a bit about the series.

What I love most about a blog is having a place to vent.