Who will the next Superman movie villain be?

It’s not like he has a roster of foes anywhere near as cool as Spider-Man or Batman. And most of them sound utterly preposterous within the framework of a movie that’s going for any level of realism.

Let’s look at the major possibilities:

BIZZARO: A mentally challenged Frankensuperman. Oh yeah, [...]

As you may have perceived, my mood was not the best yesterday. But providence sent some diversions my way.

My intent was to load up on free festival beer. Generally, I think it’s a sign of age that I’m more excited about taking the hard plastic cups home than I am about drinking the beer inside [...]

I’ve recently been barraged with spam posts from made-up email addresses that say something like “lockouts souvenir sliver collaborated traveled,adopts Lockwood statuses ” surrounded by “h1″ html tags that make the print bigger.

What is the point of these? I don’t see how they help anyone. And I can’t block them because they don’t use direct [...]

CAPalert’s Rev. Thomas Carder has a problem with the Superman movie’s depiction of “self levitation and unnatural powers throughout.”

Of course, he wasn’t paying too much attention. Check out this sentence:

“Superman Returns is also a tale of how Lex Luthor (Ben Kingsley), who is now out of prison, again plots and plans to destroy Superman”

…because of [...]

It’s not enough that I’m hardly making a living, or that as a freelancer, I get to pay all the extra taxes an employer would normally pay, no matter how little I’m actually making.

Now it turns out that because I’m freelance, I qualify as a business.

The (theoretical) good news is that the City of L.A. [...]

I just watched this documentary about crosswords and those who love them, but specifically about the New York Times crossword puzzle.

I think it’s cool that Will Shortz majored in puzzle-making in college. I appreciate the respect to puzzle solvers.

Where I differ is in the notion that the NYT crossword is in any way the “gold [...]

Two years or so ago, I voluntarily demoted myself in order to have the free time to devote to creative endeavors like MAD COWGIRL. I don’t regret that, as the movie is wonderful. But the demotion was always a finite gamble.

And the due date is on the horizon for me — My savings are lowering [...]

While I cruelly withhold most film-fest blogging in hopes of a later paycheck, I did have a fun time with David Poland over the weekend seeing a certain movie, and he writes about the whole thing here. Check it out!

My T-shirt for THE ROOM attracted a lot of attention yesterday, both from fans in the [...]

Every time I travel, it seems someone asks me about THE WOODS. Generally speaking, I seldom have anything to offer beyond what you read here.

But Jaye got some tentatively pretty good news today: THE WOODS DVD release is set for August 31st…on Region 2 PAL DVD.

In English, please?

Precisely. Region 2 is England. So those of [...]