Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip movie review: born to be mild
Instantly forgettable but inoffensive fluff… you know, for kids. And “inoffensive” is better than can be said for many movies aimed at children.
TSA
QOTD: Has pop culture given us an unrealistic idea of what a police state looks like?
While many people would likely agree that films such as 1984 and Brazil are horrifying depictions of police states — and they are — relatively few people seem bothered by the realities we’re living with today…
Abduction (review)
I’m so excited cuz it’s like Taylor Lautner made a movie just for Team Jacob! Except he’s not a werewolf or anything silly or fantasy like that — he’s a real teenager with real problems. Like being the secret child of top international spies.
I am officially tired of the “slow group walk through an airport”
It’s not cool, and it doesn’t cover up the hell that is traveling through an American airport these days — security theater, TSA gropings, etc…
watch it: “TSA Enhanced Screening Procedures Explained”
It’s like watching Brazil coming true right before our eyes.
watch it: “Germans strip to protest full body scanners”
We should pay attention to the Germans. They know what a police state looks like, and they don’t want to be living in one again.
watch it: “Young Boy Strip Searched By TSA”
Perhaps this TSA bullshit security kabuki will finally be the thing that pisses off enough Americans to rock us out of our complacency. Or perhaps we will continue to shuffle, dead-eyed and interested only in who’s winning on Dancing with the Stars, to the end of America.
Due Date (review)
Welcome to the ritual humiliation of Robert Downey Jr. Gotta wonder if the dude simply is a masochist who enjoys looking deeply embarrassed onscreen or if someone has some serious dirt on him — worse than the stuff we already know about him, that is. Or maybe he’s just a whore who will do anything for the $12 million he reportedly received for this film…
She’s Out of My League (review)
I must say that it’s awfully generous of Hollywood, after engaging in a decades-long campaign to winnow down the image of what it’s acceptable for a woman to look like if she expects to be received in polite company — or any kind of company at all, in fact — to finally acknowledge the impact this has had on real people.
