Today brings the latest gritty slice of life drama from Woody NoSnitchin’ Allen, Midnight in Paris. I’m just fucking with you, it’s Woody’s latest slight comedy that doesn’t seem to take place in a world that uses money to pay for anything. All of the characters are well off (even the historical hallucinations Owen Wilson’s…
Category: Mindless Mondays
Entertainment Editorial: Let’s Deport British, Canadian, and Australian Actors!
This week is going to be illegal immigrant week here on Alabama Liberal, but today I’d like to address the real problem. Instead of deporting Mexicans deboning chickens at Tyson Foods, we ought to be focusing on the real menace to society that’s hogging up all the good jobs: the British, Irish, Scottish, South African,…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: The Green Lantern
If you’ve seen any of this movie’s 150 million dollars worth of advertising (the whole thing supposedly cost over 300 million to make and distribute) you know what it’s about. [If you haven’t seen any previews for this movie…what are you doing on this website Amish children?] And maybe that’s the problem. I knew so…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Just when you thought Hollywood couldn’t stoop any lower, here comes this movie that blatantly steals an idea. You might be wondering what idea the movie steals, welllllll, I’ll tell you. This movie is a brazen rip off of the popular children’s book Mr. Fletcher’s Pigeons, written by yours truly. I’m so mad I’m calling…
TV Review: The Killing
You don’t know how bad I wish I could spoil AMC’s first season finale of The Killing. I literally can’t because the killer was still not revealed even after a very long season. I think the actual episode number of The Killing was only 12 or 13 but it felt more like a full season…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: The Mostly Good (Super 8)
Every summer brings at least one movie that’s not a sequel, prequel, three-quel, or based on a videogame/superhero comic/youtube video. And it’s that one film that has an ounce of mystery that’s usually the best (like Inception last year or Tropic Thunder a couple years back). Not that I have anything against excellent sequels like…
The Pretty Good (X-Men: First Class)
Let’s start this review off by saying X-Men: First Class is completely unnecessary…but it’s also pretty good. What Works: Well first off, the hotness of the cast is completely unexpected as the other X-Men movies usually only had Halle Berry or Dania Ramirez in small roles. January Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, and a scorching Zoe Kravitz…
& The Ugly (The Hangover II)
[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…
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…
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…
TV Review: Treme, TV’s Most Improved Show
As one of the first fans of HBO’s cult hit The Wire–I watched the first season on HBO before the show became a smash on DVD–I could not have been looking more forward to Wire creator David Simon’s followup Treme. I was hoping he would do for the South what he did for Baltimore: a…
Mom Jokes, Resending the Best Joke My Mom Emailed Me Last Week
Quick Hits, Daddy Issues A boy walks into the room his father is reading the newspaper in. He says “Dad, I want to be in organized crime when I get older.” The dad says “Health insurance or oil?” A boy asked his father “Where do babies come from?” Confused and unsure how to answer it,…
Entertainment Editorial: The Summer Movies I’m Looking Forward to (and the Not-so-Much List)
[This is already sort of an out of the gate bust, as I’ve seen two of these movies since I originally made this list. Oh well…] 5. Cowboys and Indians: The only big budget Summer blockbuster that looks like it has a shred of originality. This matchup of Western and Sci-fi might be terrible but…