Since today is Man Day it seems to be time to talk about the top ten manliest movies of all time. This is a hetero listicle. These movies are all just for real bros who want to hang out and watch other dudes be men while paying homage to hetero-manly-awesomeness. The broads just don’t understand why REAL MEN love these movies so much, so it’s time to explain. Continue reading
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Gather round. The temperature is dropping, the days are getting shorter and the leaves are dying. It can only mean one thing: menopause! Or autumn. Definitely autumn. Having already discussed those films that embody the season, let’s get specific. Which films do you watch in celebration of Halloween? Join me after the jump, and I’ll tell you which five spooky films I think are essential for the holiday! Continue reading
So, have you noticed that in all these, “I’m a good guy who does bad things” movies at some point the main character always ends up in the Tough Guy Uniform of jeans, a black t-shirt, and a leather jacket? Yes, okay, so here’s another one of those movies.
Zombies will never die…well, duh; Republicans want Hollywood to like them, or well, just anybody; NBC attempts to copy Fox’s test answers; Tom Cruise to act his life story; and Chuck Lorre wants you to feel his pain.
Today’s Hollywood dish needs brains.
In Hollywood’s efforts to endlessly mine the rapidly decaying corpse of the 1980’s, movie execs have found yet another morsel to sink their teeth into. Sheesh. What the hell will be left by the end of all this? Frigging Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins?! Perhaps. Fred Ward and Wilford Brimley were heroes to some! No. Anyway, so yeah, Scarface, it’s your turn. Continue reading
In Movieline’s Broadsheet post this morning, Stu VanAirsdale linked to a column on Andrew Breitbart’s site, Big Hollywood. In the column, Patrick Courrielche goes on at some length about what it’s like to be conservative in liberal Hollywood, at one point describing an interaction with two gay man at a dinner meeting and likening his own experiences as a conservative in Hollywood to the experience of coming out as gay. Continue reading
In a recent blog post Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has copped to the mistake of increasing the price of a Netflix membership by as much as 60%.
“I messed up. I owe everyone an explanation,” he says in the post. Though he admits he handled the annoucement of the price change wrong, he says he would not change it.
Greetings, Programs. Wait, let me start again. Hoi, Chummer! No, that’s not right. Do over. Hellllooooo, Nurse! I give up. This week, there’s been a lot of talk about second chances. Sony wasn’t exactly pleased with how you handled their security breach, Universal Pictures wants to pretend The Wolfman never existed and Halo: Combat Evolved gives Master Chief’s armor a fresh coat of paint. All this and Gary gets what’s coming to him on this week’s Nerd News Roundup.
Netflix recently changed its pricing scheme so that those who want both streaming and disk delivery will be charged up to 60% more per month. The accountants at Netflix saw streaming usage and content acquisition costs going up and needed to offset those costs with higher revenues. In what surely could not have been unforeseen consequences a loss of distribution deals at the same time as a price hike has caused some customers to reevaluate their options.
Some facts for your perusal: Continue reading