NEW MOVIE REVIEWS:

“Tower Heist” (B-) [Film.com]
“A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas” (B-)
“Anonymous” (C+)

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MOVIE COLUMNS:

Eric’s Bad Movies: “The Gate” (1987), about a backyard portal to hell. [Film.com]

What’s the Big Deal?: “The Sound of Music” (1965), in which the hills come alive and terrify the villagers. [Film.com]

Re-Views: “Pokemon The Movie 2000″ (2000), a garish animated turd that has not gotten any better with time. [Film.com]

One Year Ago: Catching up with “Megamind,” “Due Date,” and more. [Movies.com]

Pitch Meeting: How “New Year’s Eve” came to be. [Film.com]

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MY OTHER STUFF:

Snide Remarks: “Infant Jest” — The many sights and sounds of babies.

Movie B.S. with Bayer and Snider: “Tower Heist,” “Harold & Kumar,” a round of Interquel, Question of the Week, and more. Much more! [Cascadia.fm] or [iTunes]

In the Dark: Subscribe to this weekly e-mail and get all the latest movie reviews, DVD releases, and other pertinent info delivered to your electronic mailbox. [Eric D. Snider's In the Dark]

Twitter: This is where you can “follow” me, metaphorically. [Twitter]

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MISCELLANEOUS MERRIMENT:

Cecil Adams addresses an important scientific question: Would the very smell of massed zombies be toxic? [The Straight Dope]

Steve Jobs’ sister composes a lovely eulogy. Bonus: Her name is Mona Simpson, same as Homer’s mother. [The New York Times]

This fond “remembrance” of the movie “Halloween” is funny and weird. (Contains adult language.) [Badass Digest]

Here are Jon Huntsman’s daughters making fun of that weird Herman Cain ad. [YouTube]

Simple pleasures: making Siri say something funny. [Slacktory]

Stephen Colbert has a hard time keeping it together during a particularly juvenile bit. Seeing a comedian crack up gets old when it happens regularly, but this is a great clip. [YouTube]

I love the song “A Real Hero” from “Drive,” but apart from the refrain, I couldn’t make out much of the lyrics. Now that I know what they’re about, I kind of wish I didn’t. Because it’s kind of dumb. [New York Magazine]

Spend the next 80 seconds watching this video, being delighted, and not knowing why. It’s a splendid example of carefully composed “randomness.” [YouTube]