Mark Juddery

We've just had the Tribeca Film Festival, and Cannes is happening soon. Plenty to remind us that there's still a lot to love about the movies. But as someone who attends film festivals with relish (favorite Tribeca film? I've narrowed it down to my top five), I still...

Having listed the most overrated things about 2010 and the entire previous decade, it's now time to look back on the vintage year of 2011 - a year when "hype" was a way of life (just like every other year, come to think of it).

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It's that time again, when we start to ponder that age-old question: who will be Time magazine's Person of the Year? Since 1923, the cover of Time has been a sign of people who matter in the world. The Person of the Year, started four years later, goes to someone...

When things go wrong, we have to keep smiling. When everything goes wrong -- morbidly, tragically wrong -- we can always blame a curse. I've had days like that myself, and I'm reasonably sure that someone had put a curse on me on all of those occasions. That's the only...

Two months ago, I presented a slideshow exposing The Most Overrated Things about the Sixties. I now offer the most overrated things about a decade that I can actually remember...

It's been over a year since "Overrated: The 50 Most Overhyped Things in History" was published by Perigee in New York, and even longer since the Australian edition. Since then, I've been churning out extra lists of overrated and overhyped things and people for "The Huffington Post" - and many...

The sixties were the decade of change, the decade of cool, the decade of excitement... and the decade of hype. When someone says "Can you name some overrated things about the sixties?", I say, "Hell, yeah!"

I spend a lot of time in New York. I even rent a loft in Queens, and as I write this, I'm currently back in New York. As you can probably guess, I love the place. So when the New York office of Penguin Books, which published my book "OverRated:...

Judging by the comments that previous Overrated lists have received (not to mention the book itself), many people don't like it when something is called "overrated." It's almost as if, by describing Star Trek or the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as overrated, I'm saying they're bad. Not...

When not writing troublesome books and blogs, I'm fortunate enough to be an occasional travel writer. Here are some of the most overrated things for the world traveler including the world's most overrated tourist attraction. You've heard of the seven wonders of the world (whatever they are); here now are...

When I listed the 11 Most Overrated Things about the Decade, I should have remembered the old rule: don't argue about sex, politics or religion (or classic rock albums... but that was fine).

In particular, many people took great offense to what I wrote about The New Atheism,...

"Name the most overrated things of the decade!" was my brief. Fine, but I thought that the decade -- whatever it was called -- finished at the end of 2009 (just like the nineties had finished in 1999, or the eighties in 1989). Many words have already been wasted arguing...

This has been a vintage year for overrated things and people. Sure, every year is a vintage for that, but as some people have noted, it's especially fitting that my book "Overrated: The 50 Most Overhyped Things in History" was released in 2010. (Did you notice that subtle plug? Cool,...

OK, I'll admit it: I was trying to cause trouble. Suggesting that baseball is the world's most overrated sport (and devoting an entire chapter to explaining this) was always going to annoy a few (million) Americans. When it was mentioned in (among other outlets) USA Today, ESPN and a

Having knocked a few overrated people off their pedestals, it's now time to restore some balance by presenting a few underrated people. By the way, this isn't one of those "unsung heroes" lists. Chances are, you've heard of some of these people. Still, here's a list that corresponds to the...

The entries in my book, Overrated: The 50 Most Overhyped Things in History, are still making people furious. Just as well. If this didn't incense people, the entries probably aren't overrated enough. (Think about it.) But there's one thing I didn't include that should get people even angrier....

Two weeks ago, I presented a taste of my book, Overrated: The 50 Most Overhyped Things in History. As expected, it garnered a few (hundred) angry comments. According to these (mostly anonymous) critics, baseball is on the list because, um, I'm insanely jealous of Americans (sorry, but even...

It seems that my latest (and first US-published) book Overrated: The 50 Most Overhyped Things in History is leaving a few people enraged. While this is nice, it really wasn't the plan. It's not meant to be highly opinionated, or "malicious fun" (as one reviewer has kindly described it), but...