trailer break: ‘Paranormal Activity 2’
I didn’t find the first film all that terrifying, only momentarily cheaply distracting, and I can’t see how this won’t be more of the same.
tres cool: “Glenn Beck hates America”…
…according to this lone protester I spotted outside the headquarters of Fox News in Manhattan the other day…
question of the day: Why did ‘Jackass 3D’ make $50 million this past weekend?
What on Earth is the appeal of the Jackass franchise? Why would a movie with no special FX, no characters to speak of, no story, no nothing except overgrown idiocy speak to so many people?
watch it: “The Queen, My Lord, Is Much, Much Better!”
Sample voiceover work by my friend Bob Kuhn… which also happens to be a snidely entertaining piece of nonsense in its own right.
the MPAA and male nudity; more battles between TV networks and cable providers; the Oscars race is on; more: leftover links
Plus: Javier Bardem to star in Chilean mine movie; Matt Damon not to star in the next Bourne movie; Napoleon Dynamite and How to Train Your Dragon going to TV; lots more…
question of the weekend: Seriously, what the fuck?
I mean, are they kidding? If they are kidding, who do they think they’re kidding, anyway? What kind of fools do they take us for? Can you believe this shit? No, really: Can you?
retro trailer: ‘Road House’
I’ve actually never seen this movie. I have heard all the MST3K jokes about it, though, including the traditional singing of the classic holiday carol ‘Let’s Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas.’
Saturday cute: XKCD map of the Internet
I figure FlickFilosopher.com is some tiny speck of an island in the unnamed sea off to the southwest of the continent I have dubbed Blogania…
Friday night fortune cookie: Truman Burbank says…
“The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm!”
tres cool: ‘Errol & Olivia: Ego & Obsession in Golden Era Hollywood’
Olivia de Havilland was 19 and Errol Flynn was 26 when they met doing screen tests for Captain Blood, and the chemistry between them — onscreen and off — was pretty much instant. Their tempestuous relationship encapsulates the heyday of the studio system, as this new book beautifully documents…
