What better way to kick off Martin Luther King weekend than with some Friday Questions? Kieran is up first: I was watching the 'Bi...

I expect Oprah will now start her own Movie Academy so she can be nominated and win. I guess I wasn’t the only one who thought INSIDE LL...

Kevin Reilly, the head honcho at Fox, said at the TCA convention on Monday that he was eliminating pilots for dramas and would continue to...

Recently in a post I wrote a joke that some felt was too insensitive. Was it? You could argue either way. But I decided it was easier t...

Here’s one of those Friday Questions that became an entire post. It's from reader Joseph Scarbrough: There was once a time when mo...

I didn’t see the Golden Globes last night. I’m in Hawaii. But I’ve seen enough of them that I could probably review the show without hav...

I'm killing two birds.  From time to time I present brief excerpts from my book THE ME GENERATION BY ME... GROWING UP IN THE '60s...

I discovered this extraordinary memo from David Mamet to the writers of THE UNIT, a series he created a few semesters back for CBS. (The ...

Aloha. On my way to Hawaii, but while I stand in the endless TSA line I thought I’d answer some Friday Questions. Stephen gets us start...

Going along with my review today of HER , I wanted to get some things straight between me and Siri. These were not reassuring answers....

HER is a modern love story about a guy who falls in love with his imaginary friend. And yet it’s the most honest, heartfelt, and funniest...

I don’t care how many film critics bestow how many awards on INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS -- I thought it was a bleak, bloodless, soulless, awful m...

The envelope please. Oh, this is so exciting. And the winner is... THE LONE RANGER. No... wait.  GRAVITY. And I can’t even see...

Yes. As you may have guessed, another rant coming up. Have you ever noticed that sitting through a 2 ½ hour movie is excruciating ye...

So sorry to hear of the passing of Jerry Coleman. He was 89. Jerry was a standout second baseman for the New York Yankees in the ‘40s an...

DOWNTON ABBEY had become a sleeper hit. Who knew this Edwardian ITV costume drama would attract such a following across the pond? Seas...

Thanks to reader Matthew for tipping me to this. From the site STUFF NOBODY CARES ABOUT comes a couple of out-takes from the famous whipped...

Here’s what I miss most about vinyl records – album covers. Often the album cover design and artwork would be far better than the contents...

Wow. The first Friday Questions of the year. Longtime reader and Sitcom Room vet, Johnny Walker starts us off from England: In Sam Si...

Starting a new feature I’ll do from time to time. “Jobs I Wish I Had.” We all have them. We grow out of most of them, but not all. Sec...