I skipped The Incredible Hulk in theaters because I was fully expecting to be disappointed, but my son really wanted to see it and Iron Man was unexpectedly good, so we picked up the DVD and I was pleasantly surprised.
Ed Norton isn’t as dynamic an actor as Robert Downey, Jr., unlikely to carry a blockbuster [...]
(Warning: Put down any hot beverages you may be drinking before pressing play.)
On a more serious note, via The Atlantic’s excellent Andrew Sullivan, comes Kaboom: A Soldier’s War Journal and a post, “Wisdom from the Homefront“, about some of the mail soliders in Iraq receive from American schoolchildren:
…my favorite portion of the miscellaneous stack of our mail [...]
Borders — partnering with The Student Publishing Program, one of the top high school writing programs in the country — has launched an interesting new online program promoting poetry called Open-Door Poetry:
“Open-Door Poetry” is for anyone who has ever wanted to communicate to others in some way while opening the door for viewers to become [...]
No spoiler warning necessary at this point when it’s now the featured story on Yahoo’s main page!
It was “spoiled” for me on the way to work today thanks to a page 3 article in the Daily News, “Captain America killed!“. Even Marvel has now revealed it on their web site, after teasing it with a [...]
With the estimates for its third weekend in ($11.5m towards $94m to-date, domestic) it’s safe to consider Ghost Rider a qualified success as it’s quite likely that it will surpass director Mark Steven Johnson’s previous effort, Daredevil — which topped out at $102m after 22 weeks in release — by the end of next weekend, [...]
