I'm Afraid of American (Idol)

For seven seasons, I have managed to avoid watching a single episode of American Idol. Now, because of my job, I have to. So last night I watched the season premiere. And you know what? It wasn't bad. I actually really liked it. There were some amazing singers singing some good songs, and the bad singers weren't so much embarrassing as hysterical. I was able to laugh at them, and didn't feel dirty afterwards. It's a win-win! Read an A.I. virgin's reaction to the premiere at TelevisionWithoutPity.com!

The Last American (Idol) Virgin

Spider-Man 4 Villains: 4 We May See, 4 We Want

The next Spider-Man sequel is still in its planning stages, but the rumors are already flying fast and furious about who Spidey will face off with in the fourth film. I ran down who the top four rumored foes are and what they would mean for Spidey, and then I went ahead and picked my own top four bad guys I'd like to see on the big screen. (And no, Kraven isn't one of them.) Read all about them at TelevisionWithoutPity.com!

Four Villains Spidey May Have to Face

Four Villains We'd Like to See

The Best of Globes, the Worst of Globes

So I watched the Golden Globes on Sunday night, and was pretty pleased with the results. 30 Rock won a ton of awards, which is always good. Heath Ledger got something. And I'm much more likely to see Slumdog Millionaire eventually than I am to see The Reader or Revolutionary Road. But some of the greatest -- and worst -- moments came from the presenters themselves. See them all in my gallery at TelevisionWithoutPity.com!

Golden Globes: Best and Worst Moments

DVD Reviews: Burn After Reading, The Day the Earth Stood Still and Prince Caspian

One of the great things about my job is doing DVD reviews. I get to watch DVDS before anybody else, and then tell everybody what I think of them! At least, that's how it's supposed to work. On December 2, I had a baby girl, and the whole plan went down the crapper. So here are my latest DVD reviews! Some of the DVDs have been out for a little while, but they're all worth buying for various reasons. Read my reviews at MoviesWithoutPity.com.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (original)

Burn After Reading

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

The Diary of Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise's innermost thoughts are known to no man, thanks to his religious intolerance of psychology, but what if someone were to get their hands on his secret set diary from Valkyrie? Why, Cruise's opinions on Nazis, the media and eyepatches would be laid bare! Check out the most entertaining diary since Anne Frank's at MoviesWithoutPity.com.

Valkyrie: Tom Cruise's Secret Set Diary

2009: A Space Odyssey

Man, there are a ton of sci-fi movies coming out next year, not to mention fantasy and horror. I just wrote up January through April, and it's already a pretty sizable list, including such biggies as Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li, the next Underworld and, of course, Watchmen. And I haven't even hit summer yet! Check out my list of this spring's genre movies at MoviesWithoutPity.com!

Winter 2009 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Preview

The Golden Globes Have Brass Balls

The Golden Globe nominees are out, and frankly, I'm a little disappointed. While the Globes are smart enough to have separate categories for comedic and dramatic performances in movies, they only gave one nomination to Dark Knight and no nominations to Iron Man, and those were two of the greatest movies I've ever seen. Why must superhero movies be treated like second-class citizens? The Globes' other oversights are equally unforgiveable, and you can read my lengthy list at MoviesWithoutPity.com.

Golden Globes: Overlooked Movies

I Would Like to Feed My Fingertips to the Wolverine Trailer

The new X-Men Origins: Wolverine trailer is awesome! It's got everything I could possibly want! New mutants like the Blob and Deadpool! Logan all sideburned and angsty! An actual, trained actor playing Sabretooth! (Suck it, Tyler Mane!) That said, it's not perfect, but it's close! Go to MoviesWithoutPity.com and check out my five fave things about the trailer, and my five least fave.

The 5 Best (and Worst) Things About the X-Men Origins: Wolverine Trailer

The Spirit: Some People Fear It

I'm a little nervous about the bad reviews coming out for The Spirit. Of course, the trailers have made it look bad for a while, but I was willing to wait to see them all edited together before I made a judgment. I'm still going to see it, but I'm worried no one else will, because nobody knows who the Spirit is. (And now, thanks to this movie, they won't know who he really was, because this movie seems to take a lot of liberties.) I wrote a guide to the characters for Movies Without Pity -- check it out.

Who the Hell is The Spirit?

Keanu Reeves: Loving the Alien

I don't know about you, but I really like Keanu Reeves. The Matrix, Speed, Thumbsucker, Point Break, Johnny Mnemonic, Bil & Ted, Freaked... Hell, I saw A Walk in the Clouds in the theater. But I can no longer like him, because he is not of this world. I used to think he was just a bit of a dunderhead, but now I know he's really an alien. The Day the Earth Stood Still has shown me the light, and now his super-secret set diary has revealed his plot to conquer the world and/or kill Kathy Bates. Check out his diary at MoviesWithoutPity.com.

The Day the Earth Stood Still: Keanu's Secret Set Diary