Update of new blog address for "in the dark"

Away We Go" is essentially a road movie, about a young couple, Burt and Verona, who live in a beat up shack in Colorado with a cardboard window and faulty wiring. When she becomes pregnant they begin to wonder, somewhat belatedly, where they're going to raise their child. So they visit first one distant relative then another, one distant friend and a closer one, looking for the right fit. Where will it be? Phoenix or Tucson? Montreal or Miami? Let's find out.

This week we welcome a guest reviewer, The Girl in the Red Velvet Seat, who tells us what she thought about "The Hangover." Her review begins, "Have you seen my lung?" Read on.

"The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" finished its opening week at third place in the box office. When a major studio summer action release with not one but two reliably bankable stars can't overtake a cartoon about an old man and a goofball comedy with Ed Helms, something must be going on. What that is beats me. The end of the knowable reality? The decline of cinematic civilization? Danged if I know.

"Terminator: Salvation" may do what a factory of futuristic machines could not do: end this series before it does any further damage.

In the beginning was the word. In Dan Brown's books, as often as not, that word is a secret - one upon whose revelation the plot turns. "Angels & Demons" turns on the gradual disrobing (if you will) of a commonly held belief down to its naked truth: avaricious, cunning, deceitful, even murderous. It all adds up to good fun at the cineplex.