My interview with The Rock is HERE.

I also took the picture that runs with it.

As many of you have undoubtedly noticed, the new-look Batmobile for the upcoming prequel (yeah, yeah, but this one actually looks good) has been revealed.

THIS BE IT

On a totally unrelated note, since my full-time job ends this week, I went out for one last night of sushi, and decided I wanted to try live sweet [...]

…here’s one of those BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS I may have hinted at in the past.

As of April 1, I am stepping down as film section editor for the New Times chain. The volume of reviews from me will be the same, but will be on a freelance basis.

The decision to step down was mine, in order [...]

I’m delirious right now. I just went ONE…on ONE…with the GREAT ONE.

20 minute interview with The Rock, that is. Am writing it up for New Times.

After that, any tidbits that don’t make it into the paper, I may or may not share here, or on the message board where only the site faithful will find [...]

Cathy Seipp, a conservative who’s surprisingly non-evil, is celebrating her one-year blog-a-versary, and writes:

“Luke Y. Thompson is not only such a witty commenter on other people’s blogs, and has such a knack for cleverly defusing other commenters’ nasty remarks while always remaining serenely unhostile himself, that when he asked me to put him on [...]

Sometimes. So I wonder what to make of this past week’s Smackdown, in which John “Bradshaw” Layfield, previously a fan-favorite beer-drinking redneck, got an image makeover as an evil filthy rich Republican complete with a new George W. Bush smirk (in real life, Bradshaw is often a financial consultant on Fox News. Yes, really — [...]

If you’ve ever had your vehicle trashed by an incompetent driver ramming into it, or had to sue somebody for same, Jaye could probably use your advice right about now.

Donald Goines gets adapted for the big screen with DMX in Never Die Alone.

Quick take: It’s another Shaggy dog story in Scooby-Doo 2.

As promised, and kinda-sorta in commemoration of the 1-year anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom, LYTrules.com is proud to present webmaster Matt King’s account of his trip aboard the USS Ogden. What follows is all Matt and a bag of chips, with only minor editing for clarity. — LYT

I just recently participated in, what the Military [...]

So I went and saw The Dreamers, finally, on Saturday night. Woulda done a double feature but the Sunset 5 has stopped doing midnight shows except on special occasions (a couple of upcoming grade-Z horror spoofs with names like FROG-G-G and RECTUMA look to change that in a couple weeks). Prior to The Dreamers, projectionist [...]