Soul Men (review)
It’s one of Bernie Mac’s last performances, and it’s his first and only appearance onscreen with Samuel L. Jackson. Pity it’s not worth it even for that.
Year: 2008
watch it: “Ben Bernanke, Please Send Me Some Green!”
I still don’t understand why it’s okay for corporations to get taxpayer money to give multimillion bonuses to their CEOS but I can’t get the Fed to, I dunno, buy me an iPod. I’m not asking for a parachute of any kind, certainly not a golden one. Just an iPod. Okay, and maybe a nicer … more…
trailer break: ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… It’s like the meaning of life, refracted through a game show. I’m not sure if this is a positive development for global human culture. Slumdog Millionaire opens limited in the U.S. on November 12, and in the U.K. on January 23, 2009.
5 reasons I’m psyched for ‘Milk’
All this week! 5 movies I’m psyched for in November — well, 3 movies I’m psyched for and 2 I’m not yet totally sure about but would like to be psyched for — and 5 reasons why. No. 1: Milk [opens limited November 26]. 1. Really? All those local anti-gay propositions passed all over the … more…
U.K. box office: Bond breaks records
While we wait here in the U.S. for the new James Bond flick, it’s cutting a wide swath through the British box office: 1. Quantum of Solace: £15.4 million (NEW) 2. High School Musical 3: Senior Year: £2.7 million (2nd week; drops 67%) 3. Saw V: £.95 million (2nd week; drops 61%) 4. Ghost Town: … more…
the Doctor on Obama
Time travel with me back to June of this year, when our favorite Time Lord commented on U.S. electoral politics, via cartoonist Tom Tomorrow: (There’s more to the cartoon, but that’s the extent of the Doctor’s appearance.)
Mystery Science Theater 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition (review)
Quibbles? Do I have quibbles? You bet. Why did Joel Hodgson torment us so with the brilliance that was *Mystery Science Theater 3000* if it couldn’t go on forever? How can we take revenge on those who cancelled the show, not once but twice, first on Comedy Central and then on the Sci Fi Channel? Why isn’t the whole damn series available right now on DVD? And how can a robot made of a small plastic toy bubble gum machine be so darn sexy?
watch it: Ewok celebration
God, it really does feel like we blew up the Death Star, doesn’t it?
trailer break: ‘Repo! The Genetic Opera’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… It’s Blade Runner meets The Matrix times comic books plus Tim Burton divided by Terry Gilliam with the cosine of that scary plastic surgeon Bruce Campbell played in Escape From L.A. And it’s a musical! Heh: Anthony Head here makes me think of Neil Patrick Harris … more…
ding dong, the witch is dead
which old witch? the wicked witch ding dong, the wicked witch is dead
