Because Everybody Else Has One

The movie that everyone's talking about. 'Nuff said. This review (along with a million-and-one comments) is also up at Channel 24 . What it's about Based on the mega-selling “literary” sensation by E.L. James, Anastasia Steele is a shy university student who becomes sexually and romantically involved with the coldly controlling Christian Grey, an elusive billionaire bachelor whose many dark and kinky secrets threaten to torpedo their blossoming relationship before it even begins. What we thought Cards on the table time: I have not read the vast, vast majority of the Fifty Shades trilogy, nor do I plan on doing so, but I have read a chapter or two out of morbid curiosity and have heard enough about this huge phenomenon (not least of all through hilarious celebrity readings of the sex scenes by the likes of Gilbert Godfrey and George Takei) that I really shouldn't have been surprised by just how uncomfortably wrong-headed its story turned out to be w...

No, seriously. This one really ain't for the kids. It's kinda great though. And hey, I just realized. Wolf of Wall Street is basically The Great Gatsby on acid... or is that Quaaludes? And they both star Leo DiCaprio in the title role... what are the odds? This review is also up at Channel 24 What it's about The true story of Jordan Belfort that tracks the ups and downs of his wildly freewheeling life from rookie stock broker to major mover and shaker to major target of the federal government to his inevitable downfall. What we thought Martin Scorsese's latest depiction of sordid humanity has been called everything from “his best film since Goodfellas” to “disgusting” but though just about everything about The Wolf of Wall Street is admittedly hyperbolic by nature, such hysterical observations only serve to obscure both all that is great about the film, as well as its few missteps. First, the idea that Wolf is some sort of return to form is obviously a...