Today brings a mini-trend as this film (like Paradise Lost 3) is also a documentary that got an extremely limited theatrical release, but people should catch up with it at home. If a Tree Falls is about the “eco-terrorist” group the E.L.F. or Earth Liberation Front, as it follows a couple of the members who…
Category: Mindless Mondays
TV Review: How Are This Fall’s New Shows Doing Quality-Wise?
So here we here are in midseason, and although many of last Fall’s shows didn’t get cancelled because of their decent ratings, I can’t help but think the new crop of youngsters looks more promising (The River, Touch, Awake). After taking a step back, I can honestly say that none of the Fall’s new shows…
Movie Review: “Paradise Lost 3,” A Documentary You Wouldn’t Believe if it Were Fiction
I can practically hear some of the people reading that headline. “What is this movie and when did it come out?” “And how is there three of them when I’ve never heard of the first two?” This riveting documentary didn’t technically get a theatrical release and is actually part of a trilogy of docs HBO…
Movie Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
I know this movie technically came out last year and if people haven’t watched it by now they probably won’t, but still it’s nominated for a few Oscars and might even win one (but won’t) so why not review it? This movie is about a boy with autism who loses his father (Tom Hanks) in…
Mom Jokes: Donations
A driver was stuck in a traffic jam on the highway outside Washington, DC . Nothing was moving. Suddenly, a man knocks on the window.The driver rolls down the window and asks, “What’s going on?” “Terrorists have kidnapped Congress, and they’re asking for a $100 million dollar ransom. Otherwise, they are going to douse them…
Entertainment Editorial: Super Bowl Commercials
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…
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…