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As of this writing, MacGruber — you know, the new film based on the recurring one-joke Saturday Night Live sketch — is at an astonishing 100 percent Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. And not even thanks to “reviews” by “critics” you’ve never heard of at nonexistent small-town newspapers who’ll say anything about any movie if it … more…
As I was drinking my morning cuppa just now in order to wake up enough to get myself to a screening of Shrek Forever After, an article on AlterNet greeted me with this headline: Why Caffeine Is the Perfect Addiction for a Worker Bee Society Cue alarming statistics about how much caffeine there is in … more…
Hilarious headline in the Onion this week: Ridley Scott Trades Russell Crowe To Tim Burton For Johnny Depp And though I hate to quote an entire story, this one is so short: HOLLYWOOD, CA—Directors Ridley Scott and Tim Burton traded their favorite actors Wednesday, closing a deal in which Scott received Johnny Depp and Burton … more…
I noted recently in connection with the Jim Carrey/Ewan McGregor movie I Love You Phillip Morris, a gay love story starring two straight men, that the writers of the film pointed out that they couldn’t hire gay stars because no one is gay in Hollywood… or at least not out about their sexuality, anyway. It’s … more…
The new film Four Lions opened in the U.K. last weekend, to great box office: £609,000 from just 115 screens, for a per screen average of £5,292, “the highest of all the new releases, and double most of them,” notes Charles Gant at the Guardian’s Film blog. (Its average was second for the weekend only … more…
So it’s $128 million for Iron Man 2 over its first weekend in North America: that’s down more than $5 million from the Sunday estimates, but it’s still good enough to trump Iron Man’s $98 million opening two years ago. (IM2 dropped 52 percent in the U.K. over its second weekend there, but still easily … more…
In light of the reappearance of Betty White on the pop culture scene, and as a sort of hipster icon no less — we talked about this last week — it seems like the right followup to ask: Did you watch Betty White on Saturday Night Live this past weekend? Her opening monologue: Reviews are … more…
An editorial this week in The New York Times commented on Amazon.com’s current fight with the state of North Carolina, which is battling the retailer over the issue of collecting state sales tax. Right now, the law is that only if an online retailer has a physical presence in a state — such as offices … more…
It was bad enough when politicians and pundits hellbent on turning the United States into some sort of Orwellian nightmare of vanished civil liberties, all in the name of keeping us “safe,” invoked the right-wing wet dream that is Jack Bauer and 24. From high-tech toys that spy on anybody to the right to torture … more…
I’ve been a bit mystified by all the Betty White love that’s been going around recently, but I hadn’t given it too much thought because Internet memes like this one come and go and often remain inexplicable even after you try to analyze them. But because I hadn’t been paying too much attention to the … more…
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