I have to admit and make fun of me if you want to, but for a PG-13 horror movie, this thing is pretty scary. It’s not bloody or grotesque (at least not for the most part) but from the opening black and white credits you can tell this is a movie that aims to seriously…
Author: Alabama Liberal
Pirates of the Caribbean 4, For Those Who Hate Their Money
I’m sorry, but this franchise needs to die. Once was good, twice was not so good, three times was enough, and four times just feels like Johnny Depp is being a greedy bastard. [The official subtitle to this movie is “On Stranger Tides” but it should be “Depp needs a new mansion.”] I didn’t have…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Everything Must Go, For Those Who Like Ferrell
After years of movies that either underplayed his talents (Step Brothers) or over played them, asking him to trot out the same old blowhard shtick (Semi-Pro), Will Ferrell struck comedy gold last year in The Other Guys, playing a mild mannered guy slowly coming unraveled. The performance was a revelation, and Ferrell has followed that…
TV Review: Grading the Season Finales
I’m going to grade a few of the season finales we saw in May. These aren’t all the shows I watch (in fact, this is the first episode of The Mentalist I’ve seen all the way through), but it’s the most notable season finales. Looking at this crew it’s become apparent the big four networks…
Sunday’s Sermons: Why Social Conservatives Need to Wake Up
The majority of Republican voters would be social conservatives (no abortion, no gay marriage, prayer in school, any religious issue), voting more about culture than the right wing’s economic policies, which many actually don’t like but barely pay attention to. BUT the people actually in charge of the party are fiscal conservatives (love of money…
Happy Off Day
This weekend is my birthday so there will be less new features. But tomorrow I’ll still manage to put up a new sermon “Why Social Conservatives Need to Wake Up” and new movie reviews on Monday including Pirates of the Caribbean 4 and Kung Fu Panda 2. The only question now is how would Bubba…
Interviews with the Invisible: The Narcissistic Website Runner
Today’s interview guest is me. Now since I own, operate, and regularly shoot my mouth off on a political website I might not be a great candidate for “invisible” status. However, I’ve had the privilege to interview almost a dozen great people since the site got started, and today I open it up for them…
Larger Editorial: Republicans, Why Self-Hating Governments Can’t Be Effective
“Republicans have a great gambit. They run on the promise that government is ineffective and then they get in there and prove it”–Bill Maher Republicans hate government. They hate the regulations it imposes. They hate the taxes it draws to keep the country running. If you’re Ron Paul, you even hate that government forces you…
Petty Issues
It’s weird that so many look forward to The Rapture they miss the very real man made armageddon of Climate Crisis, currently shredding through the red states in the form of tornadoes. This weekend will officially make me 25, the same age as Lady Gaga (who could pass for an easy 40, when I saw…
Working Class Economist: Banks are Too Big To Fail, but America Isn’t
So last night I watched the HBO TV film Too Big Too Fail, and even though I was already well versed in what led to the economic disaster of 2008, some things still surprised me. 1. Exactly what went into the behind the scenes negotiations the days of and how much power the banks actually…
Fast Food Critic: Soul Daddy, When Reality TV Tries to Open Restaurants
Today brings something new to The Fast Food Critic. First, we get to do a crossover with a TV Review I ran a few weeks back for America’s Next Great Restaurant, NBC’s reality competition to see who could make a restaurant that Chipotle founder, Judge, and uber bitch Steve Ells (who looks and acts like…
Entertainment Editorial: Forget the GOP nomination, Who Will Be the New Manager on The Office?
So last Thursday the search began for an official replacement for Steve Carell’s long reigning, brain dead manager Michael Scott. The two episodes before that were standalone episodes featuring different managers to good effect (Will Ferrell’s favorites playing boss Deangelo) and bad effect (after 7 long seasons of coveting the job you can’t have Dwight…
TV Review: The Borgias
Last night saw the first season finale of the new Showtime series The Borgias (after only 9 episodes which really feels like a problem that a first season show ran out of material that fast but anyway…). Problem is, the show doesn’t feel that new. Indeed, Showtime is the network that brought us The Tudors,…