Month: April 2009

trailer break: ‘Hannah Montana: The Movie’

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Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I thought, Wasn’t there a Hannah Montana movie last year? There was, and even though it was just a concert movie, it made 31-freakin’-million dollars over its opening weekend. And it was in only 683 theaters, which figures to a per-screen average of a phenomenal $45,561. Which … more…

watch it: “Madoff With America”

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Sometimes you bring the crazy, and sometimes the crazy brings you. I don’t know what that means, except that this is one of the nuttier things I’ve seen online, and I’m scrambling for some way to describe it: See, writer-producer Edmund Druilhet wants to make a documentary about “scumdog Ponzi-aire” Bernard Madoff, and this is … more…

weekend open thread: April showers edition

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Next weekend will start my new regular weekend discussion of Doctor Who, as was suggested in last weekend’s open thread. At least that’s the plan. I know I often say I’m gonna get to stuff at a particular time and then it turns out it’s a week or a month or a year later before … more…

“Obama Depressed, Distant Since ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Series Finale”

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The Onion strikes gold again: WASHINGTON—According to sources in the White House, President Barack Obama has been uncharacteristically distant and withdrawn ever since last month’s two-hour series finale of Battlestar Galactica. “The president seems to be someplace else lately,” said one high-level official, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Yesterday we were all being briefed on … more…

screencap Friday: what the flick? #65

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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.