I used to watch “Bewitched” every single day. Maybe not enough to know that they switched Darrens half way through, but enough to be able to discuss it intelligently. Every day Darren came home from work and his hot Wiccan wife greeted the guy with a martini. Now to me, probably unaware of any sexual …
Make Your Choice Now – Did he quit or did he get fired?
This is of course Ann Coulter, but it’s how I picture the real Boots. I’m gravely tempted to put forward the proposition that personnel directors are the adult equivalent of the high school guidance counselor. The guidance counselor has historically taken a great deal of ribbing, predominantly from successful people told at a young age …
It took me forever to see Albert Brooks’ Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, and I’m a little embarrassed at that fact. Here’s why a genius movie like this fails big time, but is that much funnier because of it. Almost no one gets Albert Brooks. Take the number of people who loved Woody …
Dog Transcript (Scene opens with a teenage girl walking into the kitchen of her home and putting her backpack on the counter. She goes to the fridge to get a soda, hears a voice call her name, and turns.) VOICE: Hey, Lindsey? (The girl turns to see that the voice is coming from her dog.) …
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Music has had such a huge impact on the history of animation that you’d think that there would have been a movie that captured the excitement of live Rock and Roll, but for some reasons American Pop is one of the few attempts I can think other than maybe Yellow Submarine and it isn’t really …
I fought the rat race and the rat race won. No one portrays and skewers really intelligent morons the way Albert Brooks does. Here he plays a successful advertising executive who thinks that he is finally going to get the big promotion that his entire adult life has been devoted to and winds up instead …
Be normal, and the crowd will accept you. Be deranged, and they will make you their leader. – Chris Titus Here’s what the Internet Movie Database says about the young George Lucas “During his late teens he went to Downey High School and was very much interested in drag car racing. He planned to become …
Clint Eastwood is the ultimate thinking man’s cinematic killing machine. High Plain’s Drifter is his spooky, dark, and vicious version of the Sergio Leone Man With No Name Spaghetti Westerns he once starred in, and a moody existential meditation on gunplay, revenge and karma. Payback! Clint rides into town, grabs a drink, and promptly blows …
When I was eight or so, I used to check out my parent’s books and look through the pictures and read the captions. The most freaked out I’ve ever been was looking through the book Helter Skelter about Charles Manson and his murders. I was looking for pictures of scenery or whatever and found graphic …
Bruce Lee was pretty cool. After all he hung with Steve McQueen even before he was famous. He wore great clothes most of the time and showed off his rock hard bare chest when he wasn’t. My favorite Bruce Lee moment is where he watches a huge guy try to psyche him out by breaking …
I just watched Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine bicker back and forth mother and daughter style in Postcards from the edge, and then I turned on Jerry Springer and saw the white trash equivalent of the same thing. Mom brought Jerry Springer into the house to videotape her 20 year old married daughter’s bedroom. …
“Now, no more shenanigans!” Could this movie really exist? There certainly could never have actually been a day that you could see it and its legendary strip football finale at a legitimate movie theater. Is it really possible to be nostalgic for a movie you’ve never seen much less one with a shot of the …
“You great big he men make me sick.” Sex Wars mid-century style. Adam’s Rib can’t help but look a bit dated, but it sure is a perfect encapsulation of a certain type of couple at a certain time. My grandparents were sort of like this. Spencer Tracy is the loving conservative Prosecutor husband Adam. Katherine …
“The time to make up your mind about people is never.” This was the movie that saved Katherine Hepburn’s career. Essentially I’m pretty sure she got blackballed a bit by the industry for being too strong a women for anyone’s comfort. She owned the rights to this Broadway hit, which was written for her by Philip …
