Jim Bennett
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Jim Bennett is a recovering actor, theater producer and politico, and he writes about pop culture and politics at his blog, stallioncornell.com.

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The title character in "Ender's Game" is only 6 years old when the novel begins. The actor playing the lead in the "Ender's Game" movie is 16 years old. What kind of difference will that extra decade make?
Superman is not just a superhero — he’s the superhero. And that's why his upcoming movie, "Man of Steel," needs to be good.
KSL's decision to pull "Hannibal" from its primetime lineup is the right call. The show has some redeeming features, but it's R-rated television, and the public airwaves are no place for it.
The question isn’t whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. He did. The real question is this: Who was Shakespeare in the first place?
Some claim that Star Trek's utopian vision can’t survive alongside shoot-em-up, bang-em-up action/adventure of the new movie sequel coming up. If that’s the case, they haven’t been watching a ...
The entertainment world has much to mourn these days, especially with the loss of shatnerstoupee.blogspot.com, the definitive oracle for all information about the history, evolution and cultural relevance of Wi...
It's wrong to say that there’s no religion on television, but it's true to say that there's no respect for religion on television.
Film buffs may disagree, but a strong case can be made for the idea that "The Wizard of Oz" is the greatest movie of all time.
In the 1950s, the targets of McCarthyism were Hollywood liberals. The same thing is now happening all over again, only this time it’s the conservatives who are showing up on blacklists.
I’m grateful when a storyteller doesn’t feel it necessary to dump fictional misery into an already sufficiently miserable world.