[Spoilers…but if you’ve seen the first film, this one is already spoiled] You know how every summer is filled with superheroes (Thor, Captain America, The Green Lantern, and X-Men: First Class) and unnecessary sequels (Pirates 4, Trashformers 3, Cars 2, and…well, X-Men: First Class)? Well Hangover II is absolutely unnecessary, more than unnecessary, it’s a…
Author: Alabama Liberal
TV Review: Game of Thrones
After intense, almost deafening speculation, HBO’s Game of Thrones finally arrived in April and will see the end of its first, ten-episode season this Sunday. I can safely say the show is neither a massive disappointment nor wildly successful, instead falling somewhere in the middle. The BEGINNING of the show felt more like the end…
Sunday’s Sermons: With Jack Kevorkian Dead Where Do We Stand On Euthanasia?
In recent years it’s hard to imagine a person who has so personified a single issue as Dr. Kevorkian embodied the issue of Euthanasia or assisted suicide. He was an icon for the hard-to-talk about issue of patients that were terminally ill, suffering, and ready to die. The news media called him Dr. Death, the…
Bubba’s Sex Tips: The Real Civil War, Democrat or Republican Women in Bed?
Some debates are so classic, solving them is almost beside the point. Coke vs. Pepsi, McDonald’s vs. Burger King, The Beattles vs. The Rolling Stones (or for Bubba, Johnny Cash vs. Merle Haggard), the question of “which is better?” has been going on for so long, who even wants an answer? Well, in this world…
Interviews with the Invisible: One of The Beer Party Leaders
I’m a little star struck today, as I interview something of a rockstar in the liberal movement. Today’s interview is Todd Farally, one of the leaders of The Beer Party, the razor sharp opposition to the loathsome Tea Party. If you haven’t checked out their facebook page, twitter feed, and official site, do yourself a…
We Can’t Keep Losing Our Top Anti-Corporate Voices to Sex Scandals
Below this feature Now What? did an excellent job of pointing out how strange this whole Weinergate saga is, but I’m a little interested in the uniqueness of it and a lot more interested in the “Who cares about it all?” aspect of it. Most importantly, we’re a little worried this is going to cause…
Petty Issues
Before seeing Lady Gaga on 60 Minutes, I didn’t really like her that much…and now I’m certain I don’t. This is reason 11466 that young women don’t have any good role models in a media landscape of fame whores and teen moms turned reality stars. The best role models out there are international women (like…
WCE: Why the Private Sector Has to Create Jobs and Quit Blaming Obama
So lately we’ve heard a lot about unemployment figures and we’ve especially heard that they’re the President’s fault. That he has to do more to create jobs. That he has to eat lightening and crap rainbows. Wait…we haven’t heard that last one? Well it’s about as realistic as saying the President can singlehandedly stop companies…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): Weinergate, a “Scandal” For Our Time
I remember going to see the movie The Social Network last year and critics hailing its relevance and cutting edge themes. I guess because the world of movies is so slow to react to changing times (this Summer brings us a Conan the Barbarian remake among other franchises better left for dead) that any movie…
Fast Food Critic: New York Style Pizza
New York is known for their pizza (the city of New York, the state of New York is more known for roasted squirrel and living in tundra conditions 9 months out of the year that no rational person would), so it’s only right to stack it up against former FFC champs like Pizza Hut Loaded…
Red State vs. Blue State: Brody vs. Some Asshole on the Internet Part 1
Since I’m having a hard time finding people I know to debate in the “real world” (otherwise known as that boring space where you actually move your mouth to talk to people) and the ones I can find to debate usually don’t talk to me after we get done, I’ve decided to turn to the…
Down & Out in Bumblefuck: Bumblefuck Goes to Broadway
So recently I watched no less than three Broadway shows–breaking my yearly record of Broadway shows by two–and since there’s really no good place to put reviews of Broadway shows, why not use this perpetual dark house column? 1. The Motherfucker with the Hat: I saw this show only two days ago, so it’s the…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Tree of Life
Man I feel sorry for the big league critics that actually get paid to write reviews and have some expectation people will read them…wait, no I don’t. I’d love to be those guys. However, I will say that every once and a while a movie comes along that is so hard to review, I’m stumped…