I'm a Mets fan, so these days I prefer to consume my baseball in fictional terms rather than deal with the reality that my boys are a bunch of overpaid, oft-injured embarrassments to the triumphant – if drug scandal-tinged – legacy of Strawberry, Hernandez and Gooden.

Confronted with the choice to root for the Yankees or the Phillies in this year's World Series – or even the option to watch the action – I plan to opt for nearly anything else. My girlfriend wants to take in the last couple episodes of "The Rachel Zoe Project" on TiVo? Sign me up! My elderly neighbor needs me to wash her hosiery? I'm there! And if I get the chance, I'm going to pop in a DVD and take in some of the great fictional baseball teams in movie history to forget about this season. Here are my picks: Read more...

Tony Scott has a lot on his plate at the moment, not the least of which are planned reboots and remakes of the "Alien" and "The Warriors" franchises, respectively. (Don't know the difference? I got you covered.)

Ask Scott about either one of those franchises and he's likely to give you a lip-full or a stone-wall -- just depends on which one he's talking about. Read more...

News like this makes me smile my big, gaping fanboy smile. "The Warriors" is a modern classic, the tale of a gang making their way from the Bronx to Coney Island while a city full of rivals hunts them. There's so much about the original film that's memorable, from iconic lines like "Can you diiiiiig iiiiiiit?" to the memorable opening credits sequence.

Now we have Tony Scott speaking with Rotten Tomatoes about his coming remake. Or whatever it is. "I'm not doing a straight remake," he told RT. "I love the original 'Warriors' and I'm using the same basic story. It's really still 10 guys stuck at point B and they need to get back to point A. But I'm going to set it in Los Angeles and it's going to be a kind of study of gang culture in LA today." Read more...