Few shows on TV (and absolutely no shows on TNT) are better than Men of a Certain Age. And yet few shows on TV make me more hesitant to admit I watch them religiously. Sure, you might get cool points for talking up flashy violence like Sons of Anarchy or my personal favorite show Breaking…
Category: Mindless Mondays
Mom Jokes: A Woman’s Diary Vs. a Man’s Diary
Her Diary: Tonight, I thought my husband was acting weird. We had made plans to meet at a nice restaurant for dinner. I was shopping with my friends all day long, so I thought he was upset at the fact that I was a bit late, but he made no comment on it. Conversation wasn’t…
Entertainment Editorial: Movie Trailer Hell
By that title I mean being stuck in a movie theater while a trailer plays that you have seen, approximately, 4,000 times. It isn’t just that the preview is bad, it’s that it’s BECOME bad because of the sheer volume of times you’ve been forced to watch it. Though if the trailer really sucks seeing…
Mom Jokes
All arrivals in heaven have to go through a bureaucratic examination to determine whether admission will be granted. One room has a clerk who inputs computerized records of what each applicant did on his or her last day of life. The first applicant of the day explains that his last day was not a good…
Monday Morning Movie Review: Midnight in Paris
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…
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…