I can’t remember the last time we had a true blockbuster summer. I mean, last year we got "The Matrix" early on. It blows everyone away and then is left with no other movie to pass the baton to. And while "The Matrix" is able to hold the fort all summer long, it is that good, there’s been nothing like it this year.

Even the Bruckheimer blockbusters that are consistently entertaining - glossy, slick, choreographed, orchestrated and for lack of a better term, well produced - are just an arm’s length away, on the good side, from the fence of mediocrity. Case in point, "Gone in Sixty Seconds" and "Coyote Ugly". Don’t get me wrong, I loved "Coyote Ugly" as much as the next guy, and maybe for the same reason, but somehow I get the sense it's really because of the lack of competition.

What the hell happened to Mission Impossible 2?

Leslie Mitchell writes an article in Salon about her belief in the link between the seemingly epidemic rise in autism and vaccinations in babies. Arthur Allen warns that the unfounded fear of vaccinations will cause epidemics of life-threatening diseases. People sound off for and against the theory that autism is the result of mercury poisoning. All I can say is sometimes intuition is stronger than science.