Waaaay behind the curve reviewing this movie as it opened more than a month ago, but one of the reviews every Monday is no-longer-relevant, so that’s nothing new. I think the extra time also gives perspective. Footloose is a great example, as I would have been more enthusiastic about it immediately after seeing it than…
Author: Alabama Liberal
Larger Editorial: Mitt Romney’s Not an Idiot, He Just Plays One On TV
By now we’ve all gotten to know Mitt Romney so well, that it surprised me this week when I discovered that I really know nothing about him. The single largest criticism of Romney is that he’s a flip flopper, a phoney, an artificial mannequin who will say or do anything to get elected. In other words:…
Petty Issues
It’s not hard to see why Herman Cain has been so successful with conservatives in the Republican primary. He has an extreme lack of empathy for anyone worse off than him, from illegal immigrants (“Lets make an electrified border fence”) to Palestinians (“Israel should give them nothing”) to the 99.9 percent of black Americans that…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Harold and Kumar Do Christmas in 3D
This movie has the single best red-band trailer I’ve ever seen, complete with coked up babies, Neil Patrick Harris hitting on babes in heaven, Neil Patrick Harris getting kicked out of heaven by a jealous Jesus, pot smoking babies with the munchies, etc. And yet, the movie itself sucks…Damn you trailers! What Works: It’s funny…
Monday Morning Movie Review: The Rum Diary
This movie more or less opened and died on its opening weekend during Halloween, so I won’t waste too much of anyone’s time on a sure-fire bomb that won’t be remembered as having existed by this time next year. What Works: Not a lot. The opening credits set to a soaring sky view of 1960’s…
Movie Review: Margin Call
This is one of those extremely small scale independent movies that most readers haven’t been exposed to. The movie IS in a few hundred theaters now (where I saw it) but is also on demand so anyone with cable can watch it. I can’t exactly tell you to drive two hundred miles–what I used to…
Movie Review: Martha Marcy May Marlene
This movie is interesting as it is about a cult but will leave you feeling like the victim of a con job. Critics have given this movie rave reviews (while inexplicably being lukewarm to stronger films like Ides of March), but make no mistake: I did not see one person leave the theater that looked…
Movie Review: Ides of March
I am extremely late in reviewing this movie even though I saw it weeks ago. [Couldn’t find a place for it last week during Halloween week.] And yet I feel that’s unfair as it’s actually one of the better movies in theaters you could watch right now. It’s not as viscerally crowd pleasing as Moneyball…
Larger Editorial: In the Audience For The Colbert Report
Tonight, I talk about what it’s like to be in the audience for The Colbert Report just like I did for The Anderson Cooper Show and The Daily Show just to complete this unofficial name dropping trilogy. Surprising probably no one, The Colbert Report audience experience is virtually identical to The Daily Show (I recommend…
Petty Issues
People often ask if I go check out the Occupy Wall Street protests, and I’ve been a few times but I’m more a fair weather protester. [Like I’ll go if the sun’s out and it’s hotdog Thursdays]. But the people that were out there on Saturday (during a virtual blizzard in New York) are the…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: In Time
Well, after a long day of five movie reviews, one mom joke, a tv review, and an entertainment editorial, I wind down the site today with my favorite movie this week, In Time. Now this being Halloween, I’ve tried to keep it to that theme (people can dress up as the robots of Rock ‘Em,…
TV Reviews: Dexter
The biggest hit Showtime has ever had, Dexter, is now in its 6th season and, now more than ever, the gray hairs are beginning to show. I’ve seen the first five episodes (almost half of the show’s twelve episode season) and I think they’ve managed to make the impossible happen: a show about a merciless…
Movie Review: Real Steel
Somewhat surprising in that it’s not terrible. I have to admit, I wasn’t exactly waiting with baited breath to watch a movie version of the robot boxing game Rock ‘Em, Sock ‘Em, and the trailer looked ridiculously cheesy. I still wouldn’t call Real Steel a good movie (and we’ll get into its faults in a…