watch it: “Food Fight”
Sick and twisted, yet kind of genius: via Very Short List (Technorati tags: Food Fight)
Month: March 2008
opening wide today: ‘Drillbit Taylor,’ ‘Shutter,’ ‘Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns’
Drillbit Taylor A bunch of school kids hire Owen Wilson to protect them from schoolyard bullies. Now, Wilson is a hoot and a half and all, but what’s he gonna do, reduce the bullies to wimpers with snarking takedowns? Actually, that might be pretty funny… (I skipped the screening cuz I was at the Sci … more…
watch it: “TrashIn’ the Big Apple”
New York is one of the greenest cities in the country, but we waste more food than anywhere else. There’s an easy fix: via KarmaTube (Technorati tags: TrashIn’ the Big Apple)
scoops on Season Four of ‘Battlestar Galactica’
Have you heard about this Battlestar Galactica thing? Apparently it’s a little show on the Sci Fi Channel, something the network is trying to drum up interest in — it seems no one is watching. So Sci Fi paraded out the show’s creators and stars in New York City on Tuesday night, I guess hoping … more…
daily list: 8 movies to celebrate spring with
It’s the first day of spring — hoorah! Is it just me, or has this winter felt particularly long and gray and wet and cold? (And to all my readers below the Equator, I hope you had a nice summer, and welcome to autumn.) Put yourself in the springtime mindset with these movies: 1. What’s … more…
in which I manage not to be a total dork at a Sci Fi Channel event
The Sci Fi Channel threw this big bash in New York last night, and I was there. It was kind of an “upfront,” which is when a network invites a bunch of journalists and a bunch of advertisers and plies them with booze and lets them meet stars and tells them why the network is … more…
‘Jericho’ blogging: “Sedition”
(previous: “Termination for Cause”) See, I was right about Beck: he’s totally pissed off about Goetz’s death because it’s a symbol of lawlessness. “You’re not a judge,” he tells Jake when Jake takes the blame — Beck feels, and rightly so, that it was not the place of the Rangers in a lawful society to … more…
watch it: “Sadr City raids target civilians”
via The Real News Network (Technorati tags: Sadr City raids target civilians)
daily list: 7 Michael Bay remakes we can do without
I wish it were an early April Fool’s joke, but it appears to be real: Michael Bay is going to remake Rosemary’s Baby. It gets worse: he’s gonna redo Hitchcock’s The Birds, too. I guess Bay just couldn’t take my refound respect for him and decided he needed to waste no time in getting things … more…
The Band’s Visit (review)
So you hear that this is a movie about a band from Egypt — where the people are primarily Arab — that takes a trip to do a concert in Israel — where the people are, you know, mostly Jewish — and maybe your first reaction is to groan and moan and avoid avoid avoid because who wants to see a political movie about Arabs and Jews and the mess that is the Middle East and why can’t everyone just get along anyway?
