Three times I have gone to a movie specifically to see a trailer. In the dark times before the internet, I saw Saturn III, a horrific stinkfest with Harvey Keitel, Kirk Douglas, and Farah Fawcett solely for the previews. This was the worst movie ever to feature naked Harvey Keitel or Farah Fawcett. However, this crapulence was the first time eager fans got to see a full trailer for The Empire Strikes Back. I went to see “The Bounty” to see the trailer for Star Trek III. The last movie I saw just for the preview was the Cuban Missile Crisis movie Thirteen Days, directed by the same guy who made “The Bounty.” Thanks, Roger Donaldson, for creating vessels for two such fine trailers! I sat through Kevin Costner’s terrible “Thirteen Days” Boston accent just to see the trailer for “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.” If the internet did not exist, I would have been in the theater today watching whatever crappy new Roger Donaldson movie was showing the trailer for “The Hobbit.” Thanks, internet, for sparing me “Thirteen Days II” or “Return to the Bounty”! Here it is, the trailer for “The Hobbit.” Continue reading
Happy Friday! If you are traveling today, here’s to safe and hassle-free trips. If you are staying put, pour yourself some eggnog, mulled cider, spiked hot chocolate or “water” and cozy up with us. Continue reading
If you’ve ordered anything from Best Buy online since the day after Thanksgiving, you might want to check your email. Your special snowflake might not be getting that Hot New Toy after all.
From a press release issued to FOX 9 in Minneapolis earlier this week: Continue reading
This bar cookie is well known amongst 50+ year old WASP’s or their offspring. An olde Englishy favourite, and a nice break from the typical fatty, sugary Christmas cookies. Continue reading
Vying for the title of Most Anticipated Tentpole Release of Summer 2012 (that’s a long title, huh?) is Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Check out the trailer below and discuss in the comments! If Fox takes it down, get on over to Apple to watch it there.
How does an oligarch spend his time prior to the holidays? Buying out entire floors of FAO Schwartz? Flying in a plane full of hookers and coke?
Well, if the oligarch in question is JP Morgan chairman Jamie Dimon, you complain to anyone who listens that the mean folks whose economy you helped crash and homes you foreclosed while pocketing $23M in 2010 are being mean to you. Continue reading
The NBA is back on Christmas Day and you can go to hell if you don’t care. With a condensed 66 game schedule, there figures to be a lot of random upsets, blowouts and overall very sloppy play. But everyone who likes college basketball should feel right at home. Continue reading
I can be kind of a cynical person, and sometimes I see things–like the idea of “President Gingrich“–that make me think the future is just doomed. Then things happen that make me think, hey, the future might be OK. Like when we elected that black guy President. Or when people realized that the Newt Gingrich running for president was THAT Newt Gingrich, the disgusting space-pig that resigned in disgrace back in the Nineties, and not some other guy with that same perfectly common name. But nothing recently has made me think, maybe things have changed–for a little bit, at least–for the better quite like this picture of a traditional Navy homecoming at a pier in Virginia Beach. Continue reading
Historically, when a female character takes on the role of hero–especially that of action hero–her motivation is singularly feminine: to protect her young. Whether it’s Ellen Ripley shouting, “Get away from her you bitch!” to divert an alien’s attention from her surrogate daughter or Beatrix Kiddo embarking on a bloody revenge odyssey to punish those who robbed her of her unborn child, women are generally only allowed to take on a traditionally masculine role when there’s a feminine motivation to offset it. Continue reading
Jim Sensenbrenner, a Republican Congressman from Wisconsin, has drawn some attention to himself after FishbowlDC reported an overheard phone conversation at Reagan International Airport.
A “Democratic operative” reportedly heard the “very loud” conversation between Sensenbrenner and someone on his staff about comments that the representative had made at a church event three weeks ago. After a woman at the event praised the first lady in conversation with him, Sensenbrenner told the staff member that he responded that Michelle Obama “lectures us on eating right while she has a large posterior herself.” Continue reading