daily list: 7 great movies by 8 great Irish actors

It’s almost St. Patrick’s Day, which can mean parades and soda bread and green beer, or it could mean a little DVD festival of great little movies you’ve never seen — or have forgotten about — starring eight of today’s biggest stars who hail from the Emerald Isle. Such as these: 1. Colin Farrell: Hart’s … more…

I am a ho and a bitch

It’s true. Jerry at hey! let’s not blog about concerts says I am a “ho” and a “bitch.” Because I suggested that a concert film called The Big Black Comedy Show would make “ghosts of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman… [weep].” Not so much the concert itself, though it might, but the fact its DVD … more…

Darkon (review)

You may not have heard of live-action role-playing gamers, who enact the battles and intrigues of imaginary fantasy realms. This engaging film introduces us to some of those fantasists…

‘Jericho’ blogging: “Termination for Cause”

(previous: “Oversight”) Holy crap. I mean: Ho. Ly. Crap. Stanley? I wouldn’t have expected this from Stanley. He’s so gentle. But maybe those are the guys who snap when the worst happens. So — *deep breath* — Stanley shot Goetz. Executed him. For Bonnie’s murder. Wow. Ups and downs like crazy in this episode Trish … more…

daily list: 8 extremely minor celebrity crimes

Poor Dawn Wells, better known as Gilligan’s Island’s Mary Ann: she’s enduring the public shame that comes when celebrities behave badly and it ends up in the newspapers and the blogs. What dreadful crime did she commit? Possession of marijuana. On her birthday (no kidding!). But don’t worry: the judge threw the book at her. … more…

daily list: 5 things George Clooney is not

George Clooney is NOT engaged to be married, okay? And he’s not “gay, gay, gay,” he’s only “gay, gay.” What is it with these people — these swooning fangirls, these sweaty guys who live in their mothers’ basements, these vicious gossipmongers — who insist on spreading such mean-spirited lies? Just FYI, all these things are … more…