I have to be honest right from the beginning, and say that out of the five movies I’m reviewing today this was the least good. On a technical level, maybe it’s “better” than Colombiana, but I didn’t like it as much. In fact, by the end of it, I was actively rooting for the main…
Category: Mindless Mondays
Movie Review: Fright Night
This movie doesn’t suck and that’s about as nice a compliment I can muster up for the 600th vampire movie/tv show to come out in the last decade. I can’t say there’s anything all that fresh here–by now vampires are as cozy as Santa Claus, so familiar they are to us–but the movie does what…
Movie Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
This movie’s been out for almost a month but Labor Day provided a good opportunity for me to catch up on all the ones that slipped through the cracks over the summer. I really wasn’t going to see “Apes” but it has become such a sleeper hit that I would be almost derelict in a…
Entertainment Editorial: The Odds on the New Fall TV Shows
It’s almost September and that means the new Fall TV season is about to start and that really means that it’s time to start betting on which shows can make it a full season. I’m going to do that AND bet on which shows will get renewed for a second season. Let the betting pool…
Mom Jokes
A woman was sitting at a bar enjoying an after work cocktail with her girlfriends when Steven, a tall, exceptionally handsome, extremely sexy, middle-aged man entered. He was so striking that the woman could not take her eyes off him. This seasoned yet playful heartthrob noticed her overly attentive stare and walked directly toward her….
TV Review of HBO Documentaries: Hot Coffee, Superheroes, Koran By Heart, and more
God bless HBO. While most networks surrender the summer time period to bottom rung reality shows or a few scripted series so awful the networks know they can’t compete in the regular season, HBO has been unveiling a different documentary every Monday night. I believe last week was the final one, but luckily most of…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: The Help
This is probably the hardest movie of the year to review. I feel alternately cool and warm towards it, as often the movie goes from a great scene to a terrible scene within five minutes. It’s just so hard to really say a movie that is half comedic about Civil Rights is really doing its…
TV Shows Are Like People: The Good Die Young and the Most Profitable Live Forever
R.I.P. Men of a Certain Age. After a meager two seasons of charming us as TNT’s only non-cop show, the network cancelled it, supposedly to make room for Salt Lake City Homicide or Grand Rapids Beat or Gonzo & Nash or some such other stupid ass cop show in a TV landscape swimming in them….
Mom Jokes: An Entire Week’s Worth
MONDAY The mother of a 17-year-old girl was concerned that her daughter was having sex. Worried the girl might become pregnant and adversely impact the family’s status, she consulted the family doctor. The doctor told her that teenagers today were very willful and any attempt to stop the girl would probably result in rebellion. He…
TV Review: Curb Your Enthusiasm
What can you say about Curb that hasn’t already been said? It’s now in its 8th season and I think almost everyone in the country has had some type of exposure to it in one form or another. I’ve found the show to be deeply polarizing among people I know. Some love Larry David’s improvised,…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: 30 Minutes or Less
America didn’t show this movie much love over the weekend. It opened to a disappointing fifth place at the box office and it looks like I’m once again one of the few people in the country to see a Danny McBride movie (the immensely talented co-star of such duds as Land of the Lost, Your…
Movie Review: The Change-Up
I won’t make this review a long one. If I wrote ten paragraphs I would be putting more thought into it than America has (the movie came and went last weekend at the box office) so I’ll just get to the bullet points of this body swap flick. What Works: MVP Jason Bateman who almost…
Movie Review: Crazy, Stupid, Love
This movie’s a tough one. On the one hand, I do find it better than approximately 98 percent of romantic comedies. On the other hand, that isn’t exactly a rave endorsement. I felt like this movie really had me in the beginning and gradually let me go, getting less genuine and more stupid as it…