Unlike most people, I actually hate commercials. Well, actually that would make me 100 percent like most people, but I guess the big difference is that I also don’t like the commercials during the Super Bowl. Let me put it this way: when you fundamentally don’t like dog shit on your shoe, it doesn’t matter…
Category: Mindless Mondays
Entertainment Editorial: Alabama Liberal’s Book Club Selection for January is…The Leftovers!
So right now I’d like to start Alabama Liberal’s Book Club Selection both to promote great books that I like and also to counter the notion that nobody in Alabama reads. Each month I’ll be picking a different novel and hoping that maybe (juuuuuust maybe) someone might read it because I told them to, thus…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: The Grey
I was downright shocked at how much I liked this movie and especially considering that almost all of the audience I saw it with hated it. But most likely the same things they didn’t like were the same things I did like: the willingness to keep us off our toes, the realism, the refusal to…
Movie Review: Miss Bala, an excellent Spanish film everyone should see
This weekend I had the pleasure of watching another critically acclaimed independent movie that was the exact opposite of Albert Nobbs. Miss Bala is thrilling, ferocious, alive, and speaks to today in a way that few Hollywood movies even attempt to. While the Oscars pathetically role around in past nostalgia for bygone eras with nominees…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Albert Nobbs
I figured since this movie was nominated for a few Oscars, I might as well see it. To be honest, I probably didn’t need to in order to tell exactly what it would be and I wish I wouldn’t have spent the two hours. What Works: Well…uhhh…Janet McTeer and Glenn Close have both been nominated…
Movie Review: Man on a Ledge
This movie is stupid as hell. It has a few sequences that are pretty neat but if you go see this, you might as well take 10 bucks and flush it down the toilet, and then forget you did that because you also won’t remember this movie the next day. Watch Mission Impossible 4 instead…
Mom Jokes: 9 Months Later
John decided to go skiing with his buddy, Keith. So they loaded up John’s minivan and headed north. After driving for a few hours, they got caught in a terrible blizzard. So they pulled into a nearby farm and asked the attractive lady who answered the door if they could spend the night. ‘I realize…
Entertainment Editorial: A Broadway Review of “Other Desert Cities”
Longtime readers of the site know that there’s no greater wildcard than the item I call “Entertainment Editorial.” I might use it to call George Clooney “The King of Fall” and cover his career, I might use it to predict Oscar nominations or which Fall TV shows will survive, or I might use it to…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: My Week with Marilyn
And capping our independent film day comes this movie that maybe isn’t so independent as it got a wide release back in December and has done decent business at the box office. Mostly because people are connecting to Michelle Williams’s excellent portrayal of Marilyn Monroe. What Works: Michelle Williams. She’s this movie’s selling point and…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Pariah
Rolling on along with our independent movie day comes another film in (very) limited release. It’s called Pariah and is the story of a young black lesbian struggling to find love in Brooklyn even though her very religious mother (played by Kim Wayans in a dramatic role) doesn’t approve at all. What Works: Kim Wayans…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: In the Land of Blood and Honey
For those that haven’t heard of this move, or have and don’t remember it, this is Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut and it takes place during the Bosnian War. It’s almost impossible to really talk about this movie without also talking about Jolie herself as you can bet NOBODY would be talking about it if Jolie…
Mom Jokes: Quick Hits
I saw a poor old lady fall over today on the ice. At least I presume she was poor – she only had $1.20 in her purse. Went for my routine checkup today and everything seemed to be going fine until he stuck his index finger up my butt. Do you think I should change dentists?…
Entertainment Editorial: I Pick The Oscar Nominations
It’s that time of year again: the time when America pretends to give a shit about who wins the Oscars, really just watches the red carpet, claps if someone they’ve heard of (like Sandra Bullock) wins, and largely just goes back to watching Transformers and pretending it’s a good movie. With that, I’d like to…