Side note to parents: Anyone who thinks 'Dude, Where's My Car' is more appropriate for children than 'American Pie' because it obtained a PG-13 rating needs to stop trusting the MPAA.

There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about it. It's unnecessary and derivative.

This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.

Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.

Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.

John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.

A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.

The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience - it lets them develop naturally.

Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal to spread the Gospel According to Maher.

For the most part, however, Lady in the Water comes across as a movie that's too bad to be good, and not bad enough to be so bad that it's good.

If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary.

I aspire to be an old man with an old wife laughing at old jokes from a wild youth.

Rekindle the flame within the soul.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

Let the mind come as it wants; just you don't go with it. The greatest salesman in the world cannot sell you if you don't buy.

The greatest gift you will ever have is your life, and the second greatest gift-which you give yourself-is courage to live it to the fullest. Time goes by quickly, and you cannot take it for granted.