And the good times just keep on rollin'.

We're now in the early stages of the fall movie season, that delightful time of year when studios attempt to atone for the transgressions of previous months by releasing an onslaught of pedigreed awards bait from October through December.

Part of me wants to complain that there aren't more poker movies, but I also recognize that the game isn't exactly cinematic.

Bad "Lieutenant": I've long been a critic of Hollywood's obsession with remakes, especially in light of new plans to rework relatively recent films like "Predator," "RoboCop" and "Friday the 13th." However, the idea of "reworking" a story has admittedly yielded some positive results lately ("Batman Begins" and "Casino Royale" being the best examples), so I have begrudgingly began to come to terms with this increasingly popular practice. If that's the only way to inject new life into a dying or dead franchise, then so be it.