While in the search of selections for Alabama Liberal’s “Book of the Month” club list, I come across books that don’t quite make the cut (either by an inch or a mile) but are worth discussing here anyway. [Note: April’s Book Selection is “C-Street” and May’s hasn’t been decided yet, none of these are official…
Category: Mindless Mondays
TV Review: “30 Rock”‘s Live Episode East Coast Version Vs. West Coast Version
So hopefully people watched 30 Rock’s live episode last Thursday night, but they may not have known that there was an East Coast version and a West Coast version, both of them done live and slightly different from each other. After watching the East Coast version live and the West Coast version On Demand, I…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: The Five Year Engagement
Note: I’m reviewing this based off an early screening I saw a month ago, so I’m not sure that the version in theaters is exactly what I watched (they said the movie would be edited from what we saw). I feel like it’s 95 % the same movie, and I don’t foresee any big changes…
Mom Jokes: The Last Penny
The last penny A father walks into a restaurant with his young son. He gives the young boy 3 pennies to play with to keep him occupied. Suddenly, the boy starts choking, going blue in the face. The father realizes the boy has swallowed the pennies and starts slapping him on the back.. The boy…
Entertainment Editorial: The Ten Summer Movies I’m Looking Most Forward to (and Five I’m Not)
It’s that time of year again, the time when Hollywood rolls out its “best” (i.e. most expensive) movies to assault us all in theaters until we wobble out of the theater reeling from the headache a Transformers movie can provide. Still, the best summer movies are wholly original creations that operate on a much higher…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: 21 Jump Street
After being lukewarm to downright unenthused about all of today’s movies, here comes an honest-to-God crowd pleaser. I may not have been totally in love with this film, but I can recommend it to almost anyone and feel like they’ll have a pretty good time. What Works: The set-up is that two cops who knew…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Bully
Man, this is going to be a hard one to explain… Okay, so this movie is as famous for its ratings battle as it is for the actual content of the movie. For anyone who doesn’t know (and is perhaps not alive on this planet), the film is about bullying kids and received an R-rating…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: American Reunion
Continuing our slog through “high school” or youth based movies today, comes the latest, and supposedly last entry in the American Pie franchise. The good news? It may not be as bad as you were expecting. The bad news? That’s still not the same as saying it’s a good movie. What Worked: It’s one of…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Cabin in the Woods
I didn’t go for this movie. Sorry, but for Rotten Tomatoes to give this movie a 93% approval rating only shows how flawed that site is for judging “fanboy” movies. [Note: This will include some very vague spoilers. I really doubt anyone hasn’t seen this movie that plans on seeing it, but I figure I’d…
TV Reviews: By Jumping to the Future, Is “Fringe” Getting Its Groove Back?
So last Friday, the show featured its second leap into the future with an episode set in 2036 (hence this post being numbered archives/2036…get it?) and I think the show may have finally re-established its groove and wormed its way back into the hearts (and especially heads) of its devoted sci-fi faithful. What Happened (Spoilers):…
Entertainment Editorial: The Five Best Movies of the Year…So Far…
We’re past the quarter mark for the year and about to head into “The Summer Movie Season” where everything is exploding, animated, or includes dick jokes, but (let’s be honest) since we never really leave that season anymore and Hollywood makes blockbusters (or big flops like John Carter) year-round, we can’t just ignore the late…
TV Review: “Eastbound and Down” a TV Comedy that Takes You On a Journey (Plus, “Life’s Too Short”)
I won’t start this review off pretending I don’t have a bias towards HBO’s “Eastbound and Down.” I’m a big Danny McBride fan (if you haven’t seen his debut “The Foot Fist Way” do so). I love the character of Kenny Powers (the most lovably assholish character in TV comedy). And this show comes the…
Mom Jokes: A Little Something to Lighten Up Tax Day
A politician dropped by the local elementary school to explain how taxes worked. He called Johnny up to the front of the class, and asked if he had any lunch money. Johnny said yes and pulled out four quarters. The politician took one of the quarters from Johnny and said “The government takes this money…