All along, it hasn’t really been clear whether The Incredible Hulk was a sequel to Ang Lee’s 2003’s Hulk, or whether it was a Batman Begins-style reboot of the franchise. In general, if a superhero movie has me confused, you’re not off to a good start. It turns out, the […]

Did anybody really believe that the fourth Indiana Jones movie was real? It’s one of those things that we’d hear about every few years, with no real expectation that it was something that would ever exist. Sort of like Chinese Democracy or Iron Man. OK, that last one was a […]

Judd Apatow has achieved what Quentin Tarantino’s tried to do for more than a decade. No, not finding a way to somehow impregnate Uma Thurman’s feet. The other thing Tarantino’s tried to do: He’s become a franchise. And not just a franchise – a solid, dependable franchise. Quentin Tarantino has […]

HBO’s early advertising for John from Cincinnati, last year’s new series from David Milch (Deadwood, NYPD Blue), called it “surf noir”. That’s not an easy genre to visualize. Raymond Chandler set in the underbelly of the surfing culture? It sounded intriguing, and then the series premiered and it actually turned […]