Right off the bat (ha!), here it is: We are so fucking excited about The Dark Knight. In fact, we haven't been this excited about a movie in we don't know how long. We're not, however, going to see it tonight, nor tomorrow, nor this weekend. We're waiting until Tuesday. But that's because we're old and crusty and don't like standing in line for things. The Cinerama has show times tonight at 12:00 a.m. and......

We recklessly disregarded Seattlest Audrey's advice and saw Gone Baby Gone this weekend. We found ourselves halfway between Audrey's "don't bother" and some other critics' "it's awesome." Then we noticed J.B. Dickey wrote up his impressions on the Seattle Mystery Bookshop blog. And, well, what he said. Both the good: In many ways, it is a very honest and true adaptation. It has all of the major plot points of the book, and nearly all......

Monday started even earlier than Sunday with the Coen Brothers' heavily-touted No Country for Old Men. The elegantly slow-moving picture (care of cinematographer Roger Deakins) lives up to the hype, so much so that we can take it as their formal cinematic apology for their abysmal duo Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers. Ethan, Joel, we forgive you. Especially if it means that you won't sic scary-as-hell psycho-killer Javier Bardem on us. Next up was Juno,......

Vitals: 40 year old RHP. Born in Melbourne, FL. 6-2, 204 lb. 151-135, 4.21 career. 0-1, 1.50 this year. Signed as a free agent in 1995. $4 million salary. Arsenal: Knuckleballs, almost exclusively. He'll only throw his low-80s fastball if he's ran to three balls on a hitter. He has a curve, but he almost never throws it. Recent Battles: Back when Josh Bard was still trying to catch Wakefield, the M's played him.......