watch it: “IF YOU USE CONDOMS YOU WILL NOT BE RAPTURED”
Insane. Listen for the hilarious deployment of sports metaphors, and later the dissing of the false Rapture prophets: You have been warned, all you unchaste fornicators. (via Feministing)
Year: 2009
Me and Orson Welles (review)
The best ever love letter/horror story about the seductions and anxieties of life in the theater is the Canadian television show *Slings & Arrows.* This enchantingly bittersweet little film might be the second best.
trailer break: ‘Youth in Revolt’ redband
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Youth In Revolt Red Band Trailer – watch more funny videos Oh my god, it’s Nice Guy(TM): The Movie! Everyone knows girls only like jerks, so wimpy, doormatish, insecure Nice Guy transforms himself into a deranged, criminal asshole in order to get the girl… and it works! … more…
question of the day: Are ‘Precious’ and ‘The Blind Side’ racist?
Is it impossible to make a movie about black characters that actually deals with, or at least touches on, issues of race and class that someone won’t accuse of being racist? Perhaps it is. For at the moment, we have the cheery, upbeat, feel-good The Blind Side, which, according to ABC News, black people prefer … more…
watch it: “The World Of Stainboy – Chapter 1 The Girl Who Stares”
By Tim Burton: The man is wonderfully demented. I’d never seen Stainboy till just now, and hadn’t realized that some of the art I saw at MOMA’s Tim Burton retrospective was based on it. There’s more: Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, and Chapter 6. Enjoy.
Tim Burton at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC: spooky cool
It’s hard to think of another filmmaker who’d have the kind of history of creative output necessary to fill out an art exhibition like the Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective on the works of Tim Burton (now through April 26, 2010). Film screenings, sure — and MOMA’s got that, too, all 14 of Burton’s features … more…
trailer break: ‘Nine’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I’ve seen this film twice now, and I am bursting to say all sorts of stuff about it, and I am forbidden from doing so under pain of death from The Weinstein Company. (Obviously, some other critics were either not threatened with torture, or figured they’d call … more…
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Sex Trek – Welcome To The Starship Intercourse’
A brief list of all the Star Trek phrases, terms, and dialogue that are funnier if you think like a horny 12-year-old boy or a hornier 27-year-old fan-fiction-writing girl… no pornification required! captain’s log beam me up where no man has gone before wormhole resistance is futile “Damn it, Jim!” engage fully functional phasers on … more…
question of the day: Is ABC trying to kill ‘FlashForward’?
Damn, was I pissed when I got to the end of last week’s episode of FlashForward and saw the little notice ABC snuck in there that the show wouldn’t be returning till March. (Sci Fi Wire is mad as hell, too.) I had been figuring, all during the episode, that they were gonna hit us … more…
North American box office: ‘The Blind Side’ surges
While New Moon wanes: 1. The Blind Side: $20 million (3rd week; drops 50%) 2. The Twilight Saga: New Moon: $15.4 million (3rd week; drops 64%) 3. Brothers: $9.5 million (NEW) 4. A Christmas Carol: $7.8 million 5. Old Dogs: $6.9 million (2nd week; drops 59%) actual numbers, not estimates It was the biggest post-Thanksgiving … more…
