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…
Author: Alabama Liberal
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…
Movie Review: The Three Musketeers
Once again showing that there’s no franchise Hollywood doesn’t like to “update” long after it’s quit making money (considering In Time grossed more than The Three Musketeers and cost less, you have to wonder if original ideas are really so risky), here is the approximately 400th retelling of The Three Musketeers. Don’t worry though, these…
Movie Reviews: The Thing
This one is a weird “prequel” (which I guess is supposed to stop bellyaching that it’s really a deliriously shitty remake) of 1982’s The Thing…itself a remake of a 1950’s movie. However, this film promises to fill us in on what happens before the events in 1982’s The Thing, even though anyone who’s seen the…
Movie Review: Paranormal Activity 3
What Works: Even though I saw this movie at the worst possible time period (I’m pretty sure a Bronx high school was sitting behind me and wouldn’t stop laughing, talking, and at one point making bird calls), and the audience almost entirely undercut the suspense, I liked this movie. I actually think this movie is…
Entertainment Editorial: The New Fall Shows, Final Round (Thank God)
So several weeks back, I made a promise to loyal readers (and I do sincerely appreciate your patronage immediate family and girlfriend) that I would review all of the Fall’s new shows. Since then I’ve sat through everything from Charlie’s Angels–now mercifully let go by the Angel of Death or cancellation–to CW’s borderline unwatchable H8r…
Mom Jokes: How Bad is the Economy?
The Recession has hit everybody > I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail. > Wives are having sex with their husbands because they can’t afford batteries. > CEO’s are now playing miniature golf. > Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen. > A stripper was killed when her audience showered her with rolls of pennies while she…