The Love Guru (review)

It’s not enough, these days, if you want to make a stupid, crass, juvenile movie, to merely be stupid, crass, and juvenile: Everyone’s doing that, and a filmmaker makes to distinguish himself, right? So here we have the next step — actually several giant next steps — in taking movies to levels so new and so base that they stand apart…

Mike Myers on “unacceptable scripts”

I’m gonna have my review of The Love Guru for you shortly [it’s here now], but while I finish up figuring out how best to excoriate one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, I’d like you ponder this truth about Mike Myers, which Entertainment Weekly reported in 2000: Universal is suing Mike Myers for … more…

bias update

obsession: still Doctor Who (most recent episode blogging: “The Unicorn and the Wasp”) boyfriend: David Tennant as the Doctor (I’m starting a whole summer of Tennant and Hamlet) psyched: Wall-E (Pixar pretty much rules) dreading: Meet Dave (the trailer makes me cringe) enemy: Mike Myers in The Love Guru, because no one over the age … more…

what’s with all the “mid-season finales”?

Workin’ at home this morning, and as I often do, I’ve got the Sci Fi Channel on in the background (Stargate SG-1 all day — woo-hoo!). And they just aired a commerical for a show I don’t even watch — Ghost Hunters — promoting its “mid-season finale.” And it just occurred to me to be … more…

more changes round these parts

Been goofing around with the setup here again. Biggest change: the landing page is gone. It was sort of redundant anyway, and I think it was having a negative impact on my Google ranking because it was pretty much content free, except for all the links (Google apparently doesn’t like that). So it’s gone. All … more…