City Island (review)
Hilarious and witty portrait of a functional dysfunctional New York City family…
Month: May 2010
trailer break: ‘The Expendables’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Any trailer that starts with “They are the world’s greatest mercenaries…” had better turn into a parody at some point. I kept waiting for that to happen, and even as it appears to turn into a convention of washed-up action heroes — Dolph Lundgren? Dolph Lundgren is … more…
question of the day: Did you watch Betty White on ‘Saturday Night Live’ this past weekend?
In light of the reappearance of Betty White on the pop culture scene, and as a sort of hipster icon no less — we talked about this last week — it seems like the right followup to ask: Did you watch Betty White on Saturday Night Live this past weekend? Her opening monologue: Reviews are … more…
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Vampires of Venice”
Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode.
Polanski speaks (but doesn’t apologize); sexist iPad ads?; Mr. Rogers is evil, says Fox News; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
retro trailer: ‘Red Dawn’
Take a look back at an old trailer… Kill a Commie for Mommy… and for McDonald’s. Ah, the right-wing paranoid fantasies of the 80s were so cute. Red Dawn is available on DVD in Region 1 from Amazon.com and from Amazon.ca and in Region 2 from Amazon U.K.
ah, Venice!
Doctor Who: “Vampires of Venice” should be wrapped up on BBC One by now. Don’t spoil here! My blogging shall be speeding to the Net with all due haste…
damn those PR-driven murderous film critics, anyway
First there was the guy who thinks film critics are “high society.” And now there’s Zennie Abraham, who believes that the reason that reviews of Iron Man 2 aren’t more glowing than they are is because, well, just read it and boggle: Iron Man 2 and Scarlett Johansson were awesome! This blogger has no idea … more…
watch it: the 5/8/10 weekly address from President Barack Obama
Universal single-payer. Universal single-payer. Universal single-payer. It’s the only thing that makes any sense. It’s ridiculous to talk about all these different tendrils of problems and how it looks like they may be on their way to be mended, a little, when one simple change could have fixed them all, forever.
question of the weekend: If Amazon (and other online retailers) are forced to collect sales tax from you, will that change your online shopping habits?
An editorial this week in The New York Times commented on Amazon.com’s current fight with the state of North Carolina, which is battling the retailer over the issue of collecting state sales tax. Right now, the law is that only if an online retailer has a physical presence in a state — such as offices … more…
