Ranters And Ravers

What does Alessandra Stanley watch as a palate cleanser?

Ever since Jesus returned to Earth last November in the form of the Nintendo Wii, there's been a renewed interest in the age-old debate over whether video games can be considered art.

Kelefa Sanneh has beef with Jon Pareles, apparently.

New York's former theater critic and his problem with Iam McKellen's junk.

With a Rotten Tomatoes score of just 18 percent, Mr. Woodcock is unlikely to get Vulture to a movie theater. But it "delivers some chuckles" and that was apparently good enough for Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter.

And of course, it's Homer Simpson who helps.

"Highly amusing," he called it.

Your cranky grandpa reviews Shoot 'Em Up.

You just got hit on by Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter!

Critics love comparing Dan Fogler to other overweight, unattractive actors.

There's some major hand-wringing today over the box-office failure of The Invasion, the Body Snatchers remake starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. We know what happened.

Christopher Hitchens and Stephen King have their say.

Plus reviewer Joshua Cohen turns the conventional wisdom into found poetry.

In any given week, you can pluck his review out of the Post and be assured it will be absurdly overwritten, hemmed into his limited aesthetic purview, and quite frequently totally wrong.

With a Rotten Tomatoes score of just 7 percent Bratz: The Movie is really going to challenge the capabilities of whoever it is that has to find blurbs for the DVD packaging.

LA Weekly's Scott Foundas is generally considered a young star in the world of film criticism. That's why his profile of Brett Ratner took real guts to write.

Effective this morning, all of Siskel & Ebert and Ebert & Roeper's 5,000-plus movie reviews are available online here in streaming video.

Scott's been a Simpsons fan ever since he started writing for the Times in 2000.

To cast Seussical’s transformation from Broadway megaflop to children’s-theater minor hit as a restoration of the musical's reputation, as the Times' Campbell Robertson did recently, feels a bit of a stretch.

You rarely have to wait more than a year to see a new Woody Allen film, but Mere Anarchy is the comedian's first prose collection since 1980's Side Effects.