What is the actual future of going to the movies? Anthony Lane asks, as "video on demand" begins to bully the poor besieged theater-owners of America. "Showmen like James Cameron, I suspect, will continue to haul us off our couches for the grand, marquee events, but smaller fare may be streamed to us direct, and new films whittled down into just another channel on TV"—and this is a bad thing, he thinks. His argument is unusual, and it's not one that has ever crossed my mind before.

Clash of the Titans "stars Sam Worthington, but you will have guessed that already. These days, no major production is allowed to embark without him. He is the strapping Australian lad who, without warning, has found himself cast as a cyborg, in 'Terminator Salvation,' as a would-be alien, in 'Avatar,' and now as the demigod Perseus, in 'Clash of the Titans,' while retaining the look of someone who cheerfully expects to be returning to a steady job on a building site." EXACTLY! EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS! A++! WOULD DO BUSINESS AGAIN!

"The great discovery that [Bill] Murray has donated to cinema is that the drug of deadpan need not be a downer; bewilderingly, it can be an upper, even when you clearly have a heap of things to be down about, plus a face that looks like yesterday's cinnamon Danish." -Anthony Lane.

Crap. Anthony Lane's review of Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus makes me sad. Because it is not a glowing rave, and I was really looking forward to this movie and wanted it to be good. I still want to see it. But this criticism, like so much of Lane's writing, is very astute: "I have no idea… whether C.G.I. was the best or the worst thing that could have happened to Terry Gilliam. His gifts of invention were already so fecund, and so prolix, that this newfound ability to construct anything that drifts into his mind's eye-as opposed to the ramshackle, hand-drawn delight of his [...]

Well, here's a convincing argument to get you to subscribe to the New Yorker, if somehow you don't: Anthony Lane, on Eurovision, behind the paywall. Can you stand not to pay to read it? Really? Here's two little bits that can't fail to get your e-wallet open (if you are anything like me, which of course you are).