Magic Mike movie review: it’s got no clothes
A workplace bromantic comedy about men from a male POV: the workplace just happens to be a (male) strip club. Rather tame and rather dull, for a movie about guys taking their clothes off. Magic? No.
Matthew McConaughey
Magic Mike (trailer)
What was that about “every woman’s wildest fantasies?” I must have misheard that…
great movie quotes: ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’
“You’ve got more balls than a Chinese ping-pong tournamant.” –Val (John Leguizamo) to Mick (Matthew McConaughey)
The Lincoln Lawyer (review)
Josh Lucas and Matthew McConaughey have never actually appeared onscreen together before. It had been entirely possible, up till this moment, that they were the same person, in a Jekyll-and-Hyde sort of way. Would this be how the universe ends, with parallel-universe versions of the same actor causing all of infinity to collapse into some hellish singularity?
consultation with ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’
I was unable to get into a press screening of The Lincoln Lawyer, so I’m off to see the movie at a cinema this afternoon — because you know how much I love Matthew McConaughey. I will report on it asap afterward.
trailer break: ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’
Ah, the title makes it sound so elegant, so principled, so righteous — surely, this is a film about a lawyer with the honor and dignity of Abe Lincoln, right?
March 19: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you’re on the run from cops, criminals, and your ex-husband the bounty hunter. 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 see … more…
retro trailer: ‘Tiptoes’
Take a look back at an old trailer… When I came across this recently (as a bonus nonpolitical post at the political blog Eschaton, which is one of my daily surfing stops), I was convinced it had to be a joke. There was no way in hell this could be real: it had to be … more…
dream cast: not-so-hypothetical ‘Magnum, P.I.’ movie
I feel like I’m flogging a dead horse keeping up with Dream Cast, but I’m willing to give it a few more weeks to prove itself either vital or a goner. This week: Magnum, P.I., the 1980-88 CBS action detective series starring Tom Selleck as a former Navy SEAL and Vietnam vet now working as … more…
bias update
obsession: Doctor Who (my obsession with the show never really wanes, but it returns with a vengeance every once in a while) boyfriend: Zachary Quinto as Spock in Star Trek (I wasn’t expecting that, because his Sylar is so icky, but…. wow) psyched: Up (cuz it looks like one of the most original concepts in … more…
