the Onion just makes me cry these days (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
GoodFellas
question of the day: What is your favorite movie scene ever?
Of course it’s almost impossible to narrow it down to one scene in one movie, so feel free to pick a couple…
question of the day: What is your favorite foodie movie, or foodie scene in a movie?
I think my very favorite is the prison cooking scene in GoodFellas: “He had this wonderful system for doing the garlic. He used a razor and he used to slice it so thin that it used to liquefy in the pan with just a little oil…”
question of the day: What movie, when you stumble across it channel surfing, will you always stay to watch through to the end, no matter how many times you’ve seen it?
I’ve got more than one. But if it’s on a channel that interrupts movies with commercials, that can kill the mood for me, and send me surfing again…
trailer break: ‘Casino Jack’
This looks like GoodFellas… but Henry Hill and the mafia could only dream of the kind of crimes Jack Abramoff committed.
a few thoughts on ‘Caprica’: “Unvanquished”
Has everyone gone totally round the bend? Joseph Adama has thrown himself in with the gangsters in full, it seems. Daniel Graystone is about to go to work for them. (Has he never seen whatever the Colonial version of GoodFellas is? ‘Every since I was a kid I wanted to be a Tauron gangster…’)
cinematic roots of: ‘Middle Men’
In *Middle Men,* Luke Wilson invents porn on the Internet and then thinks it’s a bad idea, but no backsies, he’s stuck with the Russian mobsters who want his money and him dead… This flick sprang from (among other films)…
Middle Men (review)
Ever since he was a kid, Jack Harris never wanted to be a pornographer…
Friday night fortune cookie: Henry Hill says…
“I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and I got egg noodles and ketchup.”
February 26: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but soldiers in gas masks have your town surrounded and will shoot on sight if you try to leave. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on … more…
