Most overrated Bond: Roger Moore, although he was funny. Of course, by the time "Moonraker" (1979) came out, he was kind of unintentionally funny. ...more

November 13, 2008

Paul Newman couldn't have existed today - at least, not the way we came to know him. Sure, the talent would have been there, the classic good looks, the magnetism, the easy charm. But the privacy he demanded (and won), which helped establish and solidify his mystique as a bona fide movie star, never would have been afforded him in our tabloid-driven, celebrity-obsessed culture. ...more

September 28, 2008

It's a total goof, of course. A lark, a one-off. "Burn After Reading," the latest offering in the eclectic filmography of Joel and Ethan Coen, is not to be taken seriously - one look at Brad Pitt's blond-streaked pouf of hair tells you that - and it's certainly not to be compared to their starkly violent Academy Award winner from last year, "No Country for Old Men." ...more

September 12, 2008

•"Goodfellas" (1990) Tampa is featured in one of the best gangster movies. The mobsters played by Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro are sent from New York to get money from a man in Tampa. The short segment begins with the pair beating the man in a car, then taking him to the "Tampa City Zoo" and holding him over the lion cages. "They must really feed each other to the lions down there, because the guy gave the money right up," says Liotta. ...more

August 6, 2008

Lisa Marie Presley is pregnant with twins, her publicist confirms to People magazine. ...more

August 6, 2008

Yes, brothers and sisters, that probably was the pitter-patter of 27 charming-as-the-dickens electoral votes scampering across the grounds of the governor's mansion. ...more

July 8, 2008

A Kentucky museum dedicated to George Clooney's late aunt just wanted the actor's helmet from the movie "Leatherheads." ...more

May 25, 2008

Oscar night was a triumph for the freaks and geeks. ...more

February 26, 2008

DVD Releases ...more

February 21, 2008

Perhaps you, too, are curious, as are members of a state Senate select committee, how it is possible after the Florida Legislature voted to lower property insurance rates this year, why is it companies such as Allstate Floridian are still raising the costs for homeowners? ...more

February 7, 2008