Movie trailers have not yet recovered from the loss of voice-over great Don LaFontaine in 2008. No other narrator could describe an existential threat or high-concept comedy with such authority, making even the most flimsy cinematic trifle seem larger than life. And yet the industry soldiers on in his absence. Tonight the D.C. Film Society—an [...]

Morning Wednesday. The weather’s still dreary as hell, May officially changed its name to April and there’s oil everywhere. But before the world officially ends, let’s peruse what’s happening today. Aside from Stella getting her groove back for the umpteenth time on E!
Improv Everywhere, a New York-based troupe, paid homage to Ghostbusters at the New [...]

in which the author discussses five books he'd read, if time permitted.

1. To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine, by Newt Gingrich.
I've been real busy lately waiting for that scene in my life where Newt Gingrich shows up on my front porch wearing a black helmet and holding a red lightsaber and, while engaging me [...]