The Dilemma (review)
The real dilemma here is not: Should Vince Vaughn tell Kevin James that his — James’s — wife is cheating on him? It’s: How did Ron Howard get attached to this train wreck of a movie?
just RSVPed for my first press screening in London…
It’s for a screening of James Cameron’s Sanctum, a week after I arrive. The move is getting more real by the moment…
question of the day: What are your favorite Mary Sue stories in popular fiction?
For those unfamiliar with the concept of the Mary Sue, she — or he, sometimes called a Marty Stu — is a character who is absolute perfection: brilliant, kind, generous, noble, gorgeous… but not in anyway that’s annoying. Oh no: Everyone falls madly in love with the Mary Sue…
trailer break: ‘Fast Five’
True fact: Fast cars are actually fueled by women’s asses in spandex, not by petroleum-derived gasoline, as is commonly believed.
watch it: 1980s Encyclopedia Britannica commercial
This kid may well be the winner of the Most Obnoxious Child in Advertising, 1980s Era.
plans for the NYC meetup, Saturday, January 15
I leave on Tuesday, January 18, for London, and I don’t know when I’ll be back, so this will be the last meetup in NYC for a while. Next up: London meetups!
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: snow Dalek at Yale
The student in charge of this endeavor informs us that cone-shaped snow creatures are common in Doctor Who’s native Britain…
The Green Hornet (review)
He doesn’t exactly kick ass: he is an ass. Life as a masked crime fighter with some slick wheels to groove him around town is not the chick magnet he imagined it would be…
question of the day: What’s the strangest movie ending you’ve ever seen?
Could be good-strange, could be bad-strange, could be strange-strange. And how did the strange ending impact your overall enjoyment of the film?
trailer break: ‘Your Highness’
Rumor has it this is meant to be a comedy. I don’t see it, myself. Unless… oh, I get it: Your Highness. It’s a pot joke. Oh, that is clever.
