Very light blogging for about a week or so. In the meantime, enjoy the latest reviews…

You can call Right At Your Door the feel-bad date movie of the year, a contemporary answer to something like On the Beach, When the Wind Blows, or any number of Twilight Zone episodes about the end of the world. [...]

I have a short review of MR. BEAN’S HOLIDAY posted over HERE

Will be traveling for a while — OC Weekly this week will contain a theater review by me (BOOK OF DAYS) and a film review (RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR). I’ll link to them when I can, or you can just check OCweekly.com in the [...]

Yep, she’s legal. Not that anyone who reads this has a chance with her.

Good actress, though. I may actually now be at the point where such girls are too young for me — I admire her more for her talent than looks, but she’s certainly not lacking in those.

The movie has wrapped production, and is now in post. These are stills from the current work-in-progress cut, filmed and directed by Andrew Shemin, and starring my sister, Nicole Ayach.

If this man invited you inside, would you say yes?

Something’s on his mind…

Pretty cool T-shirt

“Would you care for a juice box, young lady?” [NOTE: Not actual [...]

All the hate mail (and some nicer ones) is HERE

Plus I reviewed DEATH AT A FUNERAL

So, yeah, we get a lot of English people swearing here, which some will find inherently funny (though not so many in England, I suspect). Wonderful colloquialisms such as “fucking tosser” and “wanker” abound. There’s an old man yelling profanities [...]

One thing I'm curious about…

90% of all female Internet dating profiles proudly proclaim "sarcasm" as a positive trait.

I don't have a problem with that, but it doesn't seem like something that would appeal to most guys — even my female friends say the same.

Why so quick to proclaim it? 

This is some must-watch stuff. Especially when Tom De Lay says that if we'd had no abortions, we'd have people to do the jobs illegal Mexicans do now.

Got a couple:

Tell me this introductory graf doesn't get your interest…

Bold biplane-pilot lives need not have been wasted back in 1933, if only the military had known then what all video-game players came to understand in the ’80s: The best way to defeat a giant ape perched atop a high building with a hot chick [...]

Need a place to stay Thursday FRIDAY night, preferably near Hollywood. (Though with Sunset Junction going on, maybe not Silver Lake)

I have my own inflatable mattress. All I need is a floor. Please help.

(Thursday is taken care of)