As I identified last week in my review of 127 Hours, some movies in limited release take a while to get to Alabama. Some movies never come, and some wish they never had. Blue Valentine might be an example of the latter. I’ll start by saying I like this prickly, difficult film about a young…
Category: Mindless Mondays
No Strings Attached Vs. Season of the Witch: When a Sincere Dud is Judged More Harshly Than an Ironic One
First off let me acknowledge that I am waaay behind the eight ball in reviewing these films about a month after their release. I saw both of them before the blog was started and I figured, hell, if I had to sit through both of these movies the least I could do is write a…
Seth Rogen: The Godfather of fat, charmless sidekick roles becomes an action hero. And Doesn’t Change All That Much to Do It
In The Green Hornet Seth Rogen plays a fat, hard partying loud mouth who stumbles into being an action hero. The role is a huge departure for Rogen who has played a fatter, pothead loud mouth who stumbles into being a porn star in Zach & Miri Make a Porno, a fugitive in Pineapple Express,…
TV Review of Big Love: Is HBO Still Worth It?
We all know HBO’s legendary roster of some of the greatest shows ever made (The Wire, The Sopranos, Rome, Deadwood, The Larry Sanders Show, and countless others) but taking a look at its schedule you can’t wonder if HBO’s best days are behind it. The Sopranos—its last unqualified hit with both audiences and Emmy voters—is…
Mom Jokes, resending the best joke my mom emailed me last week:
A woman walks into a used pet store and notices a beautiful parrot is only 20 dollars. Shocked, the woman asks, “Why is that bird so cheap?” The pet store owner explains that the bird used to belong to a whorehouse and the bird had picked up a lot of bad language and remembered a…
What the Fuck Happened to Vince Vaughn?
[This kicks off “throwback” week on Alabama Liberal. This week I will be re-posting the most popular items from the site’s first 7 months. I just go solely by whichever items had the most comments and am “re-sharing” them in a week that hopes to tap into some nostalgia while also finding new eyes for…
Country Strong: An Attempt to Play to the Rural Seats is as Boring and Sanitized as Contemporary Country Music
Most Hollywood movies are made in cities by people who live in cities for people that will watch them in cities, but every once and a while an attempt comes along to capitalize on an audience usually ignored: the 75 percent of the country classified as a fly over state. Movies like The Passion of…
Finally in Bumblefuck: 127 Hours comes to Alabama and it only took 127 Days
Finally in Bumblefuck: 127 Hours comes to Alabama and it only took 127 Days In the last two months of the year, Hollywood releases a cluster of quality films in an attempt to keep them fresh in voter’s minds for Oscar Season. These movies roll out in New York and Los Angeles, then expand to…
TV Review of Lights Out: Does Hollywood Love Boxing More than the Rest of America?
TV Review of Lights Out: Does Hollywood Love Boxing More than the Rest of America? In the fourth episode of FX’s terrific new show Lights Out (about a retired heavy weight champion trying to survive economically despite deep debt and IRS scrutiny) the lead character, Patrick “Lights” Leary, and his father are at a bar…
Mom Jokes: The Lie Detector
John was a salesman’s delight when it came to any kind of unusual gimmicks. His wife Marsha had long ago given up trying to get him to change.. One day John came home with another one of his unusual purchases. It was a robot that John claimed was actually a lie detector. It was about…