I don't know if you've seen these television spots that are on occasionally which are being paid for by various do-gooder groups who have fallen for this hoax, but if you've heard about buying a digital converter because your analog television is going to stop working on a certain date, please for crying out loud read MSN's detailed account of the entire history of this nonsensical scam … [Read more...]
In honor of the continuation of the Bourne franchise There’s a point in The Bourne Supremacy when Jason Bourne washes his hands in a scene that might seem absolutely unnecessary. It was at that point that I decided I could relax. I was by now relieved of my "sequel fear", and more importantly I could stop worrying about Paul Greengrass’ first major effort. While I think Doug Liman … [Read more...]
The Tyra Show is moving out of syndication, and taking up residency on The CW. The Hollywood Reporter sites economic slowdown as the reason for the move. I knew something good we could call a result of the economy downward spiral was going to turn up. The story goes that stations buying into the syndication scheme will be looking to cut costs, and thus have to bow out of the … [Read more...]
Freakishly popular webshow The Guild is about to return for its second season, and it shows up at a time when webshows are flooding the internet media... airwaves??? Reports of new series, longer runs, big name players, and massive sponsorships have been bombarding... well, those who pay attention to such things. The WB and CBS have been taking their shots at such series, and … [Read more...]
Once in a while, a movie comes along that makes me wonder what the forty-something movie critic sitting next to me in the theater watching Say Anything wrote. Did Some Kind of Wonderful, or let's say for convenience sake... Lost Boys, get one star, or a thumbs down? If so, do those movies really deserve low ratings? Sometimes a movie makes me wonder how a movie critic is really supposed to … [Read more...]
Estate of Panic is a new reality show on SciFi (rerunning apparently on USA), and it is really just another effort in the bizarre mash that is the reality television world, which is so eager to put things out that it is just putting everything out. Where other genres might mull things over, get second and 87th opinions, and test market ideas, reality television instead opts for, "Screw it. Put … [Read more...]
Top Chef once had my support as, if nothing else, at least being one of the few reality shows that didn't make me laugh at the "producer input" disclaimer at the end of the show. This season is quickly making an effort to throw that out the window. The real beauty of Top Chef, for me, was that like Project Runway, these people aren't going anywhere. That is, we don't have to be … [Read more...]
A week after I gave Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 0 stars, little hints are already cropping up on the internet about the possibility of another addition to the franchise. This seems to stem from a few quotes on MTV's Movie Blog, in which Harrison Ford says nothing valuable, but the blog nevertheless attempts to whip up a little speculation. CinemaBlend takes a shot at … [Read more...]
The 30 Best iPhone Apps + 14 Games — Part 1 The 30 Best iPhone Apps + 14 Games — Part 2 The 30 Best iPhone Apps + 14 Games — Part 3 The 30 Best iPhone Apps + 14 Games --- Part 4 - Games 1 Moving right along. 7. The Stone of Destiny Yep, it's another one of those find little picture games. This one is a little … [Read more...]
Alright, call me crazy if you will. Maybe I'm just getting itchy for The Guild. There's a new webshow showing up tomorrow, and I think it looks rather cool. It's called Ghost Town, or to be honest it might be GhostTown, and it's got webshow written all over it, but it's a fun, campy-looking little number. The idea for the story is that in a fairly odd small town two teens are trying … [Read more...]
Helen Mirren has apparently made some comments about women who serve on rape trial juries, and her thoughts are so ludicrous that it seems she's stymied attempts to respond. The general idea is that Mirren threw out the notion that women who serve on rape trail juries are less likely to convict, and this is due to the fact that other women would say the victim was asking for it. … [Read more...]
It is rather fitting that Robert Altman and Garrison Keillor worked together for what would become Altman’s last film. Altman has long been known as a genius of film conversation, while Keillor… well, seems to like conversations. I also find it fitting, because both men are revered as geniuses within the right niche, yet immediately dismissed as the pinnacle of boredom by the … [Read more...]
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 151. Run Lola Run (1998. Tom Tykwer. Franka Potente. Moritz Bleibtreu. Herbert Knaup) Nominated Best Non-English Film - BAFTA. Won Best Foreign Film - Independent Spirit Awards. Won Audience Award World Cinema - Sundance Film Festival. 152. Rushmore (1998. Wes Anderson. Jason Schwartzman. Bill Murray. Olivia Williams. Brian Cox. Luke Wilson) Nominated … [Read more...]
No one wanted to listen when I told them League of Extraordinary Gentleman was a good movie, and yet reviews for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull have not run particularly negative. You probably don’t actually know where I’m going with that. Crystal Skull finds Indy first at the mercy of Natasha Badanov, then surviving a nuclear bomb blast, then persecuted by his own … [Read more...]
About a month ago, I told Nikki Finke (the harpy) to shut the hell up about HBO's True Blood, and their quick expansion of the show for another season. Since then the show has done quite well, and I'm here to defend it again... although, I don't quite love it actually. There are a lot of reasons I stand behind the show despite my own reaction, and now there's one more... maybe nine... maybe … [Read more...]
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa suffers from all the problems we're familiar with when it comes to sequels, but don't generally expect from recent animated efforts. Rather than a real progression of the story we had, it's just an excuse to milk characters that seemed to work, with a plot from the book of standard sequel plots - which is to say, it rips off what it can, and is mindless where it … [Read more...]
