retro trailer: ‘Clash of the Titans’ 1981

Take a look back at an old trailer… Oh, man, did I love this movie as a teenager. My brothers and I must have borrowed the VHS from the library dozens of times — we never tired of watching it. I wonder if it’s really as goofy as this trailer makes it seem. (Please o … more…

apology to Edmund Druilhet, filmmaker

In response to a Web Video of the Day I posted back in April, I just received this email from the maker of that video, who also appears in it: Subject: MarryAnn URGENT, Criminal,Unlawful Slander of me take it off now!!!!!!!! Edmund Druilhet MaryAnn Johanson, I am Edmund Druilhet, Producer Madoff, Made off with America … more…

watch it: the 1/9/10 weekly address from President Barack Obama

Mr. President, with all due respect, fuck you very much. In February 2008, the Obama campaign ran this ad against Hillary Clinton (via Dead Horse): If Obama recognized in early 2008 that individual mandates are bad — and they are, unless the insurance corporations are stringently regulated, as they are in other countries that require … more…

Daybreakers (review)

It’s the perfect, ultimate, brilliant extrapolation of the vampire conceit: What happens once almost everyone’s a vampire, unturned humans are nearly extinct, and the tastiest, most satisfying blood — the human kind — is running out?

screencap Friday: what the flick? #105

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…

because Seth MacFarlane is a bigger jerk than we knew

On the recent episode of Family Guy entitled “Big Man on Hippocampus,” a blurb on a Pretty Woman video box reads: “This movie made me laugh so hard, I had mild headaches. So I went to the doctor and got myself checked out. I am currently waiting for the results. –Gene Siskel.” Because brain cancer … more…

trailer break: ‘Tooth Fairy’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Far as I can see, someone said, “Come up with as many ways as you can to humilate a grown man, and don’t stop at crotch injuries. Think pastels and pixie dust. Perhaps menacing by a housepet.” And then that person said, “Get me the biggest, toughest … more…