I am usually disappointed by contemporary comedies. Most are just not funny. Yet once in a while I inexplicably feel a calling to head to a movie theater and watch one. I guess it's the optimist in me, because I find very few to be sharp, witty, inventive or surprising – elements that I think make for good comedy. And… read more!

Crowd-pleasing documentary about two adult men in the 21st century who battle it out for the world record in the 1981 arcade classic Donkey Kong. Director Gordon skews the facts a little in order to give us the year's best screen villain: Billy Mitchell, the appallingly arrogant über-geek who had held the record since 1982 (and is also the world… read more!