Hey, it's good enough for Spinal Tap, Hannah Montana and The Monkees. Now Dewey Cox, of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, is the latest fictional music artist to go on a real-life tour. Yes, according to Variety, John C. Reilly is suiting up to perform in character for the "Cox Across America Tour." Joined by his band, the Hard Walkers, Reilly/Cox is making appearances in seven cities: Cleveland; Chicago; Austin; Nashville; San Francisco; Los Angeles and New York City. The first gig is this Wednesday at Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and all shows include a screening of the movie, a music biopic spoof from the smartest man in Hollywood, Judd Apatow, and director Jake Kasdan (The TV Set).

Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, only the Chicago date is not sold out. My guess is that by the time of posting, even that show will be unavailable, but feel free to check Sony's RSVP page to find out. Otherwise, you can at least hear Cox's music on the Walk Hard soundtrack, which hits stores today.

I certainly wouldn't mind seeing Reilly as Cox. I also wish I could have seen Reilly tour the nation as Lefty, his character from A Prairie Home Companion -- accompanied by Woody Harrelson as Dusty, of course. If I could see any fictional artist in concert, though, I'd pick The Venus in Furs, or maybe Jesse and the Rippers. How about you? What fictional band or artist would you most like to see go on tour?

Anyway, stay tuned to Cinematical because we're working on something special to coincide with the "Cox Across America Tour."

I have an issue with year-end best-of lists. Or, I should say I have an issue with making them, myself. Every year I think about giving in to the tradition, but then I stop myself when I realize that I haven't seen enough movies. There are the last-minute releases of late December to wait for. There are films I missed earlier in the year that haven't yet arrived on DVD. And ever since I took a hiatus from reviewing films, it has gotten worse, because I see fewer movies than I normally do. Typically I don't discover my favorite pic of a given year until the following year or later.

So, rather than write up a list that may change tomorrow or the next day or 10 years from now, I've decided to reflect on the bad movies I saw. I've definitely seen more bad movies than good movies, anyway. But rather than make a list of the worst of '06 -- I probably haven't seen the real worst any more than I've seen the best -- I fondly recalled the movies that were crap, but were enjoyable, nonetheless.

Some of the movies on my list are wholly guilty pleasures, while others have one or two specific aspects that I found more guiltily pleasurable than the movie itself.

• 10.) Cobra Starship's 'Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)' video from Snakes on a Plane - Sure, Snakes on a Plane is a guilty pleasure -- it was made to be. But it is just too obvious to mention it as a whole, and anyway it really wasn't as enjoyable as it should have been or was meant to be. The music video during the movie's credits, though, is another story. In my opinion it overshadows the actual movie by a long shot. It may be as self-consciously intent on producing irony and camp, but it succeeds where SOAP doesn't. Maybe because it is catchy, maybe because the band looks like a parody of contemporary hipster bands, or maybe because it is shorter -- I am far more likely to return to the video for a good laugh than to the movie (not that I'll turn off the movie on a lazy Sunday with nothing better to do; it is still a guilty pleasure, itself).

The great master filmmaker Robert Altman died last night at a Los Angeles hospital. The writer-director pretty much pioneered a new style of movies using multiple characters and storylines with overlapping dialogue and plots, and he continued making movies well through a time when those he influenced were attempting to copy him. Last year, while shooting A Prairie Home Companion, Altman was assisted by Paul Thomas Anderson, whose Magnolia was almost like a remake of Altman's Short Cuts, just in case the elder filmmaker was to pass on. He didn't.

I guess I took it for granted that he might just continue making movies forever, but at 81, Altman had given us so many classic films, that I can't be too selfishly upset to see him go. I'm going to spend the rest of the day celebrating his life and work rather than sulking in mourning. Many of my favorite films were directed by Altman. He made my favorite western (McCabe & Mrs. Miller), my favorite movie about Hollywood (The Player), my favorite movie about the Korean War (MASH), my favorite wedding movie (A Wedding) and my favorite movie about country music (Nashville). I'm even a big fan of Popeye.

Altman was nominated for five directing Oscars, but never won an Academy Award until he was given an honorary award at this year's ceremony.

It took a while for us to narrow down all the entries in our A Prairie Home Companion DVD giveaway to five winners (actually, it didn't take that long, I was just being terribly lazy over the weekend). When we decided to use the above shot of Lindsay Lohan for this Caption This contest, we knew we'd get some good ones -- and you didn't disappoint us! Here are our winning entries:


"You can fix that in post, right?" -- submitted by reader Eric Blair

"What do you mean they can't see me. Radio? WTF?" -- submitted by reader Chris Muir

"I don't know where you got it, but this bong isn't working" -- submitted by reader Jeremy Parker

"We have a great show tonight... Lindsay Lohan is here! Yeah!!!! Wait... I'm Lindsay Lohan... I mean... Gwen Stafani is here!" -- submitted by reader Dorv

"Would the owner of black lacy panties claim them in the back... oh wait, those are mine." -- submitted by reader Ryan

Congrats to our winners! Official winner emails are winding their way to you through cyberspace even now; make sure you get us your mailing address so we can get your DVD to you!

Okay, you know the drill. We show you a photo from a movie -- in this case, Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion -- you provide us with a brilliantly witty caption for the pic, and we shower you with prizes. Well, maybe not shower, exactly, but in this case we actually have five -- that's right, FIVE -- DVDs to give away, in honor of the release of the A Prairie Home Companion DVD tomorrow. The DVD features special audio commentary with Robert Altman and star Kevin Kline, deleted scenes, and a behind-the-scenes "featurette."

The best five caption entries, as judged by our crack Cinematical caption contest staff, will win. So take a good, hard look at the still from A Prairie Home Companion above and get those brain cells working, Cinematical readers! You have until Thursday, October 12 at 5PM EDT to submit your entry in the comments.

According to FOXNews.com, Lindsay Lohan "walked away" from shooting the indie film Bill before attending the Sunday night premiere of A Prairie Home Companion. According to rumors, the actress is unhappy with the production and is planning on only working for big name directors from now on (Bill is being shot by first-time directors Bernie Goldmann and Melisa Wallack). Lohan is supposedly now concentrating on her next film, Georgia Rule, which is about sexual abuse and comes from "big name director" Garry Marshall (would you let the helmer of Exit to Eden tackle a serious film about incestuous molestation?).

Good. Who needs Lindsay Lohan in any independent films from new, unknown filmmakers? I'll admit that after Mean Girls I was excited about her career, but she hasn't done anything interesting since. Sure she's in the new Altman film, but who hasn't been in an Altman film? To completely discredit and exclude all novice directors, if this is indeed what she plans on doing, is a sure sign of a spoiled star.