Is it me, or is this video a little…introspective for B.o.B. at this point in his career? B.o.B – New Music – More Music Videos I understand that the process of getting famous has become dramatically accelerated in the age of the mixtape and the internet, and that it is probably pretty overwhelming to rise this fast. But “Don’t Let Me Fall” is both a reflection... 

Seriously? We’re tapping this well again, folks? Does Ronald D. Moore just have some thing about proving that old, bad, things would be awesome if they’d just been given to him in the first place? Having consummately proved that with Battlestar Galactica, doesn’t he want to do something original? I do understand that we’ll be going all the way back to the well of the 1960s... 

So, after a long week, my college roommate and I got together to order Chinese food, drink beer, and watch something dopey and humiliating. Names will be withheld to protect the innocent, but I will confess that we ended up watching When In Rome. It’s an incredibly terrible movie. It features the world’s least plausible wedding. Danny DeVito plays a sausage king. There is a New York restaurant... 

I haven’t read Cathy, or indeed any comic strip except Doonesbury, regularly in recent years, but it made me kind of sad to hear women harshing on the fact that the character got married (and in the final strip, pregnant) in the comments section in Jezebel, saying that the character had taught them that it was okay to live without men. That’s a fine lesson to take away from the comics,... 

I sometimes think both living in Washington and covering both federal agencies and Congress has given me a much lower tolerance for movies about real and fictional Washington figures. There are exceptions, of course, Breach is a tremendous, tremendously smart movie about bureaucracy, sacrifice in the name of career, and sociopathy, and I love it for all of those things. But Casino Jack? This looks... 

I am not sure this is such a great move for Clint Eastwood: Or for Matt Damon either, but one has more of his career left ahead of him than the other. But more importantly, I really wish this trend in unrelated-narratives-that-make-a-single-point movies would come to an end. They’re like reading a series of short stories in context, and I’ve never really liked short fiction all that much.... 

One of the things that I think is very interesting about Jason Bateman’s career (and I will stipulate that I haven’t seen Arrested Development) is that the characters he plays are frequently only slightly above average. He’s the head of a company in Up In the Air, but not a particularly famous or important company. He’s the head of a small business in Extract. He’s an... 

Vulture’s analysis of the market worth of actors and actresses have always been interesting, and I thought the column’s analysis of Zac Efron is particularly worth reading. It’s not because I have any particular investment in that particular young man’s career—at least Romeo+Juliet had some really cracking performances in it, and I don’t think my bewilderment at... 

I understand why stars want to make guest appearances on television shows, and I understand why television show runners like to have them on. If you’re going to have your characters encounter new people as they go about their lives, wacky or serious, trite or momentous, those new people they meet might as well be a draw on their own. And there are some cases where the famous person cast for the... 

Well, this looks pretty awful, doesn’t it? In between Edward Norton’s unsuccessful accent, and Robert DeNiro’s wan righteous man, and Milla Jovovich’s robot-eyed bad-girl-playing-good, I’m lost as to which element of this I think is least promising. Jovovich in particular puzzles me. Other than in The Fifth Element, in which her unusual, discomfiting eyes were much less...