No official word on whether or not Jay-Z's classic "Hard Knock Life" will make the soundtrack to the new version of Annie he's going in on with Will and Willow Smith. But if his recording history is a precedent, the team's next movie will be a remake of Oliver! starring Willow's brother Jaden. And it will be pretty much exactly the same as Annie.

I've been getting flack for not "rating" movies. "How many stars does it get?" people ask. "Should I see it or not?" The problem with this last question is that my answer will always be "yes," since I watch horror movies no matter how bad they are. It's like asking a crackhead if you should spring for that double rock laced with motor oil. But since this is a big mainstream release and a lot of people are considering shelling out cash for tickets, here's your answer: See this movie. It's great. Now that we've gotten all that useful information out of the way, let's talk about something more [...]

In the period between when VH1 stopped airing music videos but before they became the home for such quality infotainment as "Glam God with Vivica A. Fox" and "Celebrity Fit Club," they were best-known for two series: "Behind the Music" and "I Love the 80s," and that show's light-history spawn.

On December 16, 2002, VH1 aired the first segment: "I Love 1980." This American interpretation of the BBC show (which itself started with "I Love the 70s"), had segments on Airplane!, The Empire Strikes Back (isn’t it weird that those two films came out in the same year?), “Rapper’s Delight,” and Gloria Vanderbilt jeans, among other pop culture [...]

Tight budgets, risk-averse studios, and an American population which has been so dumbed down that the latest installment of the Fast and Furious franchise will someday be seen as the greatest intellectual achievement of the Obama era are resulting in a flood of cinematic remakes from the age of Reagan and other films based on recognizable properties.

Let Me In footage shown at ComicCon is getting very good reviews. It's smart that the studio is putting out these bits from the American remake of the excellent Swedish film, Let the Right One In, this early, and for that core audience, so as to wear down our suspicion, mistrust and general sense of "why are you messing with a good thing?" The film's new trailer is… okay? Mostly we are all just left wondering: will the cat scene be included?