Category: Arts & Entertainment
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Hold the cynicism
I finally got around to watching Super Size Me, good timing for someone, like I am, who’s taking renewed steps to become less of a fat-ass. For the record, I am aware that the movie came out more than two years ago. And that it got a ton of press and plenty of favorable reviews,…
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Holy ovaries!
I’m not sure why I’ve been going around for years with the impression that The Handmaid’s Tale was a movie I needed to see. Maybe I was confusing it with the book (which I can guarantee I won’t be reading), or because I had a crush on Natasha Richardson. Whatever the reason, the damage is…
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Would you just stop and ask for directions, already?
TVSquad.com has a link to an interview with Damon Lindelof about the upcoming season conclusion of “Lost.” I agree with the TV Squad guy — dude could stand to shut up for a while and lessen the backlash. The part of the interview that annoyed me the most was at the end: But I feel…
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Qu’est-ce que c’est, “irrelevant?”
Apparently I’m zero for two on my quest to become movie literate. Tonight’s entry: Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard, which leaves a viewer in 2006 feeling as jaded and disillusioned as its main characters. Cinema studies professors and students like to write about Breathless almost as much as French people like to be smug. For me…
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I feel great! You can too.
One of my all-time top 5 favorite albums ever recorded is Telecommunication Breakdown by Emergency Broadcast Network. EBN’s schtick was remixing video sources to techno beats, basically popularizing the mash-up a decade before it got popular. Their video releases were pure capital-G Genius but could get tedious quickly. The best example of that is the…
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I don’t know if y’all have heard, but the SciFi channel has been running a miniseries called “The Lost Room!” Non-stop promotions aside, this is actually a damn fine show. (It concludes tonight, which would make this blog post seem useless if not for the fact I’m 100% sure SciFi is going to be rerunning…
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R.I.P. Peter Boyle
I guess it’s a little weird to be upset when celebrities pass away, but then few celebrities are as cool as Peter Boyle. He’s got a permanent place on my cool list just for his performance in Young Frankenstein, of course. But he was great in everything I saw him in — the “Clyde Bruckman’s…
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Best Actress in a Supporting Role
I was surprised that For Your Consideration had such a low rating on Rotten Tomatoes until I started following the links. Some of the reviews, like the one from The Onion’s AV Club are critical of the movie but still give it a recommendation. I guess that’s a sign that a pass/fail rating isn’t suitable…
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Stop winding it up so much please thank you.
I was watching “Saturday Night Live” this week (eyes over here, Mrs. Beatty) and the first musical guest was Gwen Stefani doing “Wind it Up” with an over-enthusiastic drum line and a throng of badly-dressed dancers. It’s difficult for me to describe my reaction to seeing this, but in short: I became firmly convinced that…
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The Man With the Golden Franchise
When I heard they were doing a reboot of the James Bond franchise, I thought it was a terrible idea. The series has degraded so far down to parody at this point, the only way to do it correctly would be to start releasing them as period pieces. Not Austin Powers parody, but just turn…
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A Tale Told by an Idiot
I mentioned RiffTrax a while back. Tonight I finally got to try it out. Fans of MST3k have wondered a lot what it would be like if the guys had been able to do a good movie for a change. Well, I still can’ tanswer that, because I saw The Phantom Menace. (Yes, I own…
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Guilty Pleasure
I honestly can’t tell if “Heroes” has gotten significantly better since I first saw it (and mercilessly ragged on it), or if I’m just starting to come down off my high horse and admit that my tastes aren’t as highbrow as I like to think. I’ve still got problems with it. Biggest is that the…