“If it’s Halloween, it must be Saw!” That is what the TV ads keep telling me. Frankly, I stopped watching the Saw series after *Spoiler* the death of Mr. Jigsaw *Spoiler* in installment No. 3.

The truth is, I have stopped watching most new horror movies in general. Besides the random Stephen King adaptations, horror movies today have lost all sense of originality and rely solely on random things jumping out to provide scares.

“Run Fatboy Run” mixes great performances with silly British humor to overcome its simple and predictable story to become one jolly good comedy.

For such a nonsensical film with the corniest acting imaginable, “Speed Racer” still manages to be a fun ride with its dazzling special effects and ridiculous race sequences.

“The Promotion” tries its damnedest to be more intelligent and witty than the previous workplace duel movie “Employee of the Month,” but somehow manages to be worse.

Speeding barrels and fireballs were the only things challenging Billy Mitchell’s “Donkey Kong” record before unemployed Steve Wiebe came to steal it in “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.”

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