On Sunday night - before my sinuses joined the writer's strike - I fancied myself a Rockwell-ian protagonist. In my crappy efficiency apartment, I laid leisurely in an armchair, reading Yeats and watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I also made laborious use of the first-person singular and listened to a new Bavu Blakes song, which arrived in my inbox that night. ...

Will Smith is the last man alive in I Am Legend, Nicole Kidman is a narcissistic sister in Margot at the Wedding, and Reverend Billy travels cross-country to spread the gospel of anti-commercialism in What Would Jesus Buy?. Also opening: Alvin and the Chipmunks and The Rape of Europa....