@ElisabethRappe Seriously, though, I have no personal quarrel with you. I’m sorry things turned out badly. Good luck.

@ElisabethRappe “Why don’t you ask me?” [I ask.] “I’m not going to talk about it.” [Sad trombone.]

@ElisabethRappe Well, I was responding to something she said. Would you also describe your time at Cinematical as “hell, tears, harassment”?

THE EXPENDABLES is screening in most markets, but not Portland. They must have heard about our strict anti-Lundgren laws.

Right now @rosmance and @williambgoss have similar Twitter icons. Every time Will tweets, I think it’s Lisa. Will, change yours. Thank you.

@JulieRappe What, she was a slave? If it was so awful — 3 yrs. of hell, tears, abuse, crappy wages — why didn’t she quit?

In keeping with the official theme of summer 2010 — “Eh, Good Enough” — this week’s new wide releases are all B-minuses. They fall within the “good” range, but not very far into it. They’re good enough that I wouldn’t try to discourage anyone who was thinking of seeing them from doing so, but neither would I recommend them to anyone who wasn’t already considering them. Basically, whatever your plans were this weekend, go ahead.

“Dinner for Schmucks” is funny but not as funny as it should have been. “Charlie St. Cloud” (review at Film.com) is better than you’re expecting from a teen-focused weeper, but nothing special. “Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore” (review at Film.com) has some laughs in it.

In limited release, “The Kids Are All Right” is all right. Well, better than that. It’s pretty good. But “‘The Kids Are All Right’ is all right” sounds better.

At Film.com, “Eric’s Bad Movies” is about “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” an amazing 1978 failure featuring the songs of the Beatles but no Beatles. “What’s the Big Deal?” is about “Last Year at Marienbad,” a trippy 1961 French art film that’s come up recently in conversations about “Inception” (conversations with people prone to mentioning French art films, anyway). I also addressed the question of whether Kevin Smith — or anyone — is “relevant.”

At Cinematical, I cracked a few jokes about the trailer for “The Town.” This led an elderly gentleman at Vanity Fair to discover that there is a thing called the “Internet,” and that it has “blogs” on it, and that sometimes those blogs contain jokes. It also led to a commendation by Jeff Wells, which produced mixed feelings in me, to say the least.

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Who doesn’t like @scotteweinberg?! I will fight that person to the death with my fists, for freedom!

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