watch it: “Cat on trampoline funny”
Your Friday cat cute is brung:
February 12: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but they never let you bring champagne, truffles, and candlelight into the theater with you. 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 … more…
screencap Friday: what the flick? #110
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…
Valentine’s Day (review)
It’s like being force-fed, all in one sitting, an entire box of cheap-shit heart-shaped chocolates from the dollar store.
trailer break: ‘Green Zone’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon together again? Excellent. It’s The Hurt Locker meets The Bourne Supremacy. How can it go wrong? Is it just me, or shouldn’t Matt Damon finish up “I came here to find weapons and save lives” with “and I’m all out of gum”? … more…
question of the day: Have the movies (or TV) ever gotten the afterlife right?
We get yet another cinematic vision of the afterlife this weekend in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief: Percy and pals go to Hell… the underworldly realm of his uncle Hades, and it’s the usual sort of Hell, all sulfurous air and flames and chicks in S&M gear. (Steve Coogan as Hades is … more…
The Wolfman (review)
The metallic tang of blood is all over the elegant facade of this mysteriously disappointing, dispassionately underpowered story of a British aristocrat who dances with the devil, in the form of a werewolf curse, in the pale moonlight.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (review)
So it can be told: The road to hell isn’t paved with good intentions, it’s paved with Harry Potter wannabes. Now, now — I know that’s not quite fair to anyone involved with this perfectly inoffensive, occasionally clever kids’ movie…
watch it: 1950s Cheerios and V8 commercial
Whoever uploaded this to YouTube says it’s 1940s, but it looks more 1950s to me: Wow! Can I still get one of those rockets? It’s a toy and a game! It crashes imaginary astronauts into the moon! It’s totally cool!
because social commentary has no place in comics
Marvel Comics has caved to right-wing whingers who don’t like that their behavior — calling Obama a Muslim terrorist socialist who isn’t even an American citizen; engaging in cluelessly and hence hilariously hypocritical protests (“government hands off my Medicare!”) — makes them prime targets for satire, as a recent Captain America story targeted them, according … more…
