Mania Review: Despicable Me 2 I enjoyed the first Despicable Me as a mildly effective babysitting movie; I thought its world was too unformed and its scenario too shopworn, but I loved its grumpy villain-made-good Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) and his three adorable charges. Now comes the inevitable sequel...
July 3, 2013 - Mania
Bill McKibben in Council on Foreign Relations However, environmentalist Bill McKibben, writing in the New York Review of Books, calls Lomborg's analysis "weak, a farrago of straw men and carefully selected, shopworn data that holds up poorly in light of the most recent research, both scientific...
Charlie Chaplin in Balkan Travellers In 1910 Charlie Chaplin, who attended a burlesque show in Chicago, described it as "consisting of a coterie of rough-and-tumble comedians supported by twenty or more chorus girls. Some were pretty, others shopworn. Some of the comedians were funny,...
Teddy Atlas in ESPN I think Cotto's damaged goods,ESPN boxing analyst Teddy Atlas said. "He's a little shopworn. The fight for Foreman could be even easier than people think."