Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His editor cabled back: Forget flood. Interview God.

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.

I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.