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Take a look back at an old trailer… This might be my most favoritest hyperbolic trailer ever. “Greatest adventure drama of the ages!” “Actual death fight of the pagan kings!” “Actually filmed in the savage heart of equatorial Africa.” And it’s all filmed on location “where no white woman had ever been before.” Because nothing … more…
…women aren’t interesting, according to Hollywood, just bitter and complainy; and more. It’s yet another installment on The Week in Women, my regular column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.
…you’ll recommend me. At the suggestion of reader Dokeo, I’m trying a little experiment in building traffic and word of mouth for the next couple of weeks. I’m asking regular readers to forward to their friends their favorite FlickFilosopher.com post from the past week. These are some of my own favorites, if I may make … more…
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…
Is this new bill called the Torches and Pitchforks Act of 2010? The Directive for the Prevention of the Revolt of the Peasants? Cuz there’d better finally be some major blood — of a figurative sort, of course — and fines that look like the GDP of small African nations. Or I call for tarring … more…
What chain restaurant serves the worst food? One of the worst meals I’ve ever had in my life was in an Olive Garden. I generally try to avoid all fast food and chain restaurants, but I was traveling and I was hungry and options were limited. Now, I know better that sometimes, it’s preferrable to … more…
“There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.”
I have no idea what this ad is selling, but it cracks me up every time:
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you’re on the run from cops, criminals, and your ex-husband the bounty hunter. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see … more…
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from a DVD… and just to make things harder for 2010, this one is from a TV show which may or may not be in my collection (it’s sooo much easier to do screengrabs now that Netflix is streaming to my computer). Guess the TV show — you don’t … more…
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