NBC Reporter Mark Murray produced an off-the-cuff gem earlier today by suggesting on MSNBC’s First Read blog that President Obama’s Health Care Summit was based on defeating Republicans using the William Zabka Principle. What the heck is the William Zabka Principle you ask? Here’s how Mark Murray explains it.
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New Peewee Herman Show Getting Good Early Reviews on Twitter
Posted in Comedy, Movies, tagged Club Nokia, L.A., Los Angeles, masturbation, Paul Reubens, Pee-wee Herman, Peewee Herman, Peewee's Playhouse, Review, Reviews, The Peewee Herman Show, Twitter on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For Pee-wee Herman fans like myself, last night was a big night. At Los Angeles’ Club Nokia, a new incarnation of the Pee-wee Herman Show opened for a 4 week stage run. It marked one of the first times that actor Paul Reubens brought back his character in a serious way since the tragic cancellation of Pee-wee’s television show in 1991 following his well-known quasi-private masturbation incident.
500 Days of Summer Brilliantly Reinvents the Drab Romantic Comedy Genre
Posted in Movies, tagged top romantic movies, romance movies, romantic comedies, romantic movies, 500 Days of Summer, Reality Bites, Singles, Generation X, Hitch, Amélie, The Science of Sleep, Michel Gondry, The 40 Year Old Virgin, independent films, split screen, breakups, relationships, Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, lame characters, new classic movies, movie review, romcoms on January 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
500 Days of Summer will be one of the top romantic movies for years to come. While it might not be starting off with the same buzz as popular romantic comedies like Amélie, Hitch, or The 40 Year Old Virgin, it seems more likely to become a well-referenced portrait of romance for young people during this era, much like Reality Bites and Singles were for Generation X in the 1990s.
Was David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive the Best Movie of the Decade?
Posted in Movies, tagged archetypal characters, best movie lists, best movie of the decade, best of lists, Blue Velvet, Dana Stevens, David Lynch, evil characters, movie directors, Mulholland Drive, Naomi Watts, pillow talk, the '00s, the 2000s, The Guardian, Time Out New York, Twin Peaks on December 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I was shocked yesterday and then again today to discover that there are already some people saying Mulholland Drive was the best movie of the decade.
Why My Mother in Law Enjoyed Big Stan– a Comedy about Prison Rape
Posted in Movies, tagged Big Stan, comedies, David Carradine, grandparents, mother-in-law, movie reviews, Movies, Naked Gun 2 1/2, prison, rape, raunchy jokes, Rob Schneider, sexuality, violence on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now that I’ve seen Big Stan I realize that it was actually a lot tamer and less offensive than I thought it would be. Most people are willing to accept that rape happens in prison. As the movie is sure to make clear, it occurs (mostly) as an act of violence rather than sexuality. I’m sure it’s a movie that my wife and mother-in-law would have never planned to go see. But they saw it on a whim, and it turned out to be really fun for them.
Jennifer’s Body Tells Us that Being a Nerd is Better than Being Hot
Posted in Movies, tagged Diablo Cody, film editing, Jennifer's Body, Megan Fox, succubus, transitions, vampire, waterfall, werewolves, zombies on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I watched the post-Transformers Megan Fox stardom vehicle known as Jennifer’s Body. I had heard some interesting things about this horror-comedy movie wherein Megan Fox becomes a blood-drinking succubus.
One of the things I had read about the movie was that Megan Fox proved that she was more than just eye candy. She could [...]
Is George Clooney Currently the Favorite Actor of Movie Buffs?
Posted in Movies, tagged George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, actors, Johnny Depp, Denzel Washington, Movies, popularity, film critics, Pirates of the Caribbean, Up in the Air on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was recently thinking about George Clooney. For the past few years he seems to have been in a movie almost every year that has been hailed by critics as “one of the best movies of the year.” I write that facetiously as my wife and I often joke about this type of shameless marketing. [...]
Russell Crowe Upholds Myth that Newspapers have Journalistic Superiority in State of Play
Posted in Movies, tagged Ben Affleck, Blackwater, jobs, journalism, news, newspapers, online news, political thriller, Rachel McAdams, reporting, Russell Crowe, State of Play, thrillers on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
State of Play, a political thriller starring Russell Crowe has a clear message: internet reporting sucks.
District 9 Lives Up to Hype as New Science Fiction Classic
Posted in Movies, tagged aliens, apartheid, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, human behavior, movie reviews, refugees, Roger Ebert, Science Fiction, scifi, South Africa on November 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Recently I wrote about how the horror movie Drag Me to Hell didn’t entirely live up to the hype surrounding it. People were saying it was a new classic for the genre. Now having seen District 9, a film receiving similar fanfare, I must agree that this is one of the best science fiction films I have seen in years.
Drag Me to Hell Opens Strong, But Doesn’t Live Up to Promise
Posted in Movies, tagged Drag Me to Hell, Sam Raimi, horror movies, selfishness, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead on November 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I don’t consider myself to be a huge horror movie fan, but I like getting creeped-out as much as anyone. In addition to reading a great review for the movie from my favorite critic, I also heard from family members that Drag Me to Hell was genuinely scary and had the bonus of being funny. [...]
