Well, THAT’S Over: We’re Starting to Feel Like a Real, Live Boy

For one of those slowest weeks of the year -- the week before the week before Labor Day -- we sure did have lots of stuff this week. Next week we're bringing back the Denouements, one of favorite (if time-consuming) features, and we're slowly working our way back into fighting shape. It feels good. We worried once we got going, this wouldn't be as fun as we'd always hoped it would be. We are no longer worried about that.

Now we're just worried about hurricanes.

Here are things that happened this week:

*** Sean Penn groused (sorta) about "The Tree Of Life."

*** Fixing "Fright Night."

*** Woody's off to Munich!

*** Please do not go see the "Sex and Zen" movie.

*** No, Gatsby, no!

*** "The Ides of March" is the early Oscar favorite.

*** Poor "Conan" writer.

*** Free "Oujia" plotlines, people. Totally free.

*** Where are all the black auteurs?

*** Remembering "Aliens."

*** Botox, Yoda got.

*** What's next, Bale?

*** Introducing "Please Ignore Our Terrible Movie."

*** We swear, we really do like the Polish brothers.

*** Pretty difficult not to get excited by the trailer for "The Artist."

Reviews: "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" | "Our Idiot Brother" | "Colombiana" | "Higher Ground" | "Chasing Madoff"

All right, that's gonna do it for us, kids. Leitch is gonna hide from Irene in the basement, and Grierson's gonna laugh and mock him for it until an earthquake takes out California. Happy weekend ahead. Be safe out there, and we'll see you Monday. (Hopefully.)