The year is 1949 and Los Angeles is under the thumb of Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), a former boxer who climbed the mobster ladder to become the ultimate crime ruler of the western United States. He kills at will, takes any dame he likes, and has paid off the majority of the LAPD to follow his every word. Enter Sergeant John O’Mara (Josh Brolin), a cop and WWII vet who, after a meeting with Chief Parker... 

The title refers to a question Rafe asks this week. We’ve made some serious botches over the past few weeks, both with technical issues and misattributing roles within movies, and nobody has called us on it. C’mon folks, this is the Internet; you’re supposed to be all over us for the slightest mistake! Regardless of whether we actually have an audience or not, this week we discuss... 

Before the negative comments hit, yes, I realize I mixed in some Ethan Embry roles when we talked about Giovanni Ribisi. It is, yet again, the difficult part about doing a show where we talk about things off the cuff – try not to rake me too much over the coals. This week we give reviews of Ted and The Amazing Spider-Man, deal with some technical difficulties brought about by Skype’s latest... 

Spider-Man returns to the big screen this May sans Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire. Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer) guides the wall-crawler on a new set of adventures with Sony Pictures’ The Amazing Spider-Man. With their February 5th “The Untold Story Begin Here” promotional marketing campaign, Sony and Webb have revealed their latest trailer for this summer’s highly anticipated... 

The book that stormed its way up bestseller lists comes to movie theaters this weekend. For the record, I have not read the book, making this the first time in recent memory that I’ve gone to see a movie without reading the book first. It feels odd, knowing there is a book out, that most of the audience has read it and has more knowledge about this than I do. But I wanted a pure viewing with nothing... 

With Comic-Con unfolding on the other side of the country and the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises already online, it was only a matter of time before we got the other big super-hero trailer: The Avengers. Oh, wait, we haven’t gotten that one yet (I expect we’ll see it soon too). Instead we’ve gotten the trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man, the reboot that brings the web-slinger back to the big... 

A teenage Peter Parker grapples with both high school and amazing super-human crises as his alter-ego Spider-Man. Has it really been long enough from the Sam Raimi / Toby Maguire Spidey movies to warrant a reboot? Sure, the third one was a bit of a dud, but the first two movies are among some of the best superhero movies we’ve seen on film, and now the studio is rebooting it with a new cast and... 

Sorry for the delay in this week’s show. The computer we use to encode the episode died, and this time it looks like it’s permanent. We’re trying something new to bring you the episode and hope it works as well. This week’s episode sees reviews of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Let Me In, and The Social Network, as well as berating of Margaret and Jeff for not watching our... 

Rafe caught three out of the four new releases this week, which means a great deal of the show is spent with Rafe talking, including another look behind the curtain of writing and running a website like this. Don’t worry: Rafe’s world is nowhere near as scandalous as Easy A, full of crime as The Town, or desperate as riding in an elevator in an M. Night Shyamalan story. The episode touches... 

High School is an interesting microcosm. As someone who works there, I can say this. My occupation makes me an observer and infrequent participant in the world that is high school. It has its own rules, its own standards, many of which are far removed from the “real world.” It is a domain of hyperbole, which is why it only makes sense when movies that use that setting as their own resort to such...