Zack and Miri Make a Porno (review)

Porn: I’m so not a fan of it. For the same reasons I’m so not a fan of most slasher/torture horror movies. Cuz it’s all about body parts, not about people. But *Zack and Miri Make a Porno* is not about body parts: it’s about people.

screencap Friday: what the flick? #43

Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. But hey: one guess per comment — no fair hogging all the guesses.

trailer break: ‘Just Buried’

Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Adorable, in a Six Feet Under meets Pushing Daisies meets the Coen Brothers black-comedy kind of way. Which is usually my kind of thing, of course. Apparently this has been playing as a midnight movie here in New York for a couple of weeks, but I … more…

not Rose Tyler! no!

UPDATE: Oh, crap. How was it so sweet when proper-Sam ended up handcuffed to his bed, and just gross and icky when not-proper-Sam did? I know I said I wasn’t gonna write about Life on Mars, but I’ve got it on here in the background while I’m working, and bad enough that they’re continuing to … more…

dream cast: hypothetical ‘MacGyver’ movie

It’s Thursday, so it’s time to remake an 80s classic TV show or movie with an all-new cast. This week: MacGyver, the 1985-1992 ABC adventure series that made a virtue out of nonviolence and the hero’s intelligence and scientific bent. Plus, Richard Dean Anderson was cute as hell. (If you have a suggestion for an … more…

watch it: “The Theft of 2008”

Greg Palast is an American journalist who had to go to England to do his job. Now he works for that wacko pinko commie outfit known as the BBC. This 14-minute report appeared on BBC Newsnight — it’s the equivalent of your local nightly news, but you try looking for something of this depth on … more…

trailer break: ‘Frost/Nixon’

Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Frost/Nixon started out as a stage play, which I saw on Broadway last year, just as news of its move to film was being announced. I was there mostly to see Michael Sheen, as British TV interviewer David Frost, and partly to see what playwright Peter … more…