Pop Quiz: You’re at work and the boss declares a team building day. He’ll take you all to lunch and then play icebreaker games with you. They may or may not involve balloons. Do you a) Volunteer to lead a balloon team complete with its own t-shirt? b) Agree to the free lunch and suffer through the balloon games? c) Order the most expensive thing on the menu and then make fun of the losers with the balloons? Your answer... Read more

You don’t have to be a genius to figure out this calculus equation. Fast cars + hot babes + studly guys = box office success. That’s why we’re currently on the fifth installment of the high-octaine, high-testosterone “Fast and Furious” series. Rest assured, however, like the protagonists of “Fast Five,” the creators of the new movie, in theaters now, haven’t allowed themselves to get flabby. The latest flick is just as fun as its predecessors and may be the best... Read more

Besides the occasional “ooh-rah,” the boys of the United States Marine Corps called to defend Los Angeles from alien invasion in “Battle: Los Angeles” have one mantra. “Retreat?” one will cry and the rest will call back, “Hell!” The call and response comes, they tell us, from a leatherneck who was ordered to retreat during World War I. His response? “Retreat? Hell, we just got here.” And that, my friends, is all you really need to know about this bullet-flying,... Read more