Martin Short

Family Matters

It's Topps!

In Mars Attacks!, Tim Burton turns his ray gun on everything in sight

Exodus Lost

Prince of Egypt goes wrong with Good Book rewrites

News Hostage

Conan Was a Warrior

The Spiderwick Chronicles is Both a Smart Children's Fantasy and a CGI-dependent Weepie

Tangled Web

Wonder Boy

Harry Potter's second adventure delights exactly like the first

It Happens

Ohmigod! Five seasons in, South Park's the funniest show on TV.

Win An Orphan DVD, And Discover The Five Most Underrated Creepy Movie Children

You know how this goes: some movie comes out about a little kid who's not what he/she seems and every online wag has to throw together a list ranking each child that's given us the willies since The Bad Seed. Problem is, every one of these lists has the same characters: Damien Thorn (The Omen), Reg ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

Photo by Mike Overall*sigh* Let the hoarding commence.​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we're going to launch a class-action lawsuit against Diet Dr Pepper for not tasting more like real Dr Pepper. We'll probably be defeated in court by the Dr Pepper lawyers p ... More >>

The Five Best Talk-Show Guests, Ranked

The new Tom Hanks movie Larry Crowne was a bland bomb, but that's okay: He did publicity for it, and that means showing up on (just about any and all) talk shows as a guest. What makes a good talk-show guest? Someone who understands the dynamic -- you're not having anything close to a real conversa ... More >>