The nun teaching Sunday school was speaking to her class one morning and she asked the question, “When you die and go to Heaven, which part of your body goes first?” Suzy raised her hand and said, “I think it’s your hands, because when you pray, you hold your hands together in front of you…
Category: Mindless Mondays
Entertainment Editorial: The Most Promising Pilots for This Fall
Okay, a quick word about the nature of pilots and pilot season before I list some of the ones that sound most promising. Just for those that don’t know, a TV “pilot” is the very first episode of a TV series. It’s what a network will watch, and then make a decision on to see…
TV Review: HBO’s Game Change (and a small one for “Exporting Raymond”)
I don’t give a damn what anyone says, HBO is THE best network on television, and many times I would take their documentaries/TV movies over what’s in theaters. And if you need further evidence then check out “Game Change,” their TV movie that premiered this Saturday night and was better than anything put into theaters…
Movie Review: A Thousand Words
Does anyone care about this movie? I don’t know, but I saw it and might as well review it. What Works: The movie’s plot is about a fast-talking, soulless literary agent who gets thrown for a loop when he can only speak a thousand words before dying. If it sounds like an old-school concept comedy…
Monday Morning Movie Review: Silent House
Okay, so…much like The Vow, we have a little bit of false advertising here. Unlike, The Vow, I actually think the movie this winds up being is stronger than the one advertised. This is a definite “See it.” What Works: This is advertised as “Elizabeth Olsen gets terrorized by random strangers in a house for…
Movie Review: The Vow
Yeah, I hated this movie. What Works: Channing Tatum proves that he definitely is ready to be considered for a decent movie role. I feel half-bad for this guy because he’s never been BAD in anything, yet he has starred in more shitty movies than one man should have to. Come on guys, let’s see…
Monday Morning Movie Review: Project X
More like “Project Pointless.” If you’ve ever seen a movie where a couple of teenage guys are real nerdy and decide to change it by throwing a wild ass house party, you’ve seen this movie. There’s not really a “plot” per say, and the characters are all arch-types we’ve seen in everything from Superbad to…
Mom Jokes: Marital Therapist
An elderly couple come into a seasoned marital therapist’s office. The therapist asks “So what seems to be the issues in your relationship?” The woman immediately began rattling off a laundry list of offenses: “He doesn’t pay enough attention to me. He doesn’t kiss me like he used to. He doesn’t help out around the…
The Book of the Month is…”The Orphan Master’s Son,” Don’t Miss This North Korea Set Insta-Classic
Last week brought the news that North Korea has finally decided to give up their nuclear program in favor of something crazy, like not letting their citizens starve to death. The constantly-struggling nation struck a deal to give up nuclear production in exchange from massive aid from the United States. Still, who knows if the…
TV Review: From “GCB” to “The Walking Dead” to “Justified,” Ranking the Southern Set TV Shows
Last night on ABC, the new show GCB premiered as part of a wave of Southern set TV shows that have come on the scene in the last five years after roughly 150 of being ignored. So I thought it might give “interloping yankees” a nice perspective to be able to rank the Southern set…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Wanderlust
This movie is a little bit better than I thought it would be, which is notable since Paul Rudd movies usually look good but disappoint (How Do You Know, Knocked Up, My Idiot Brother), and it is no less than the third straight performance I’ve liked Jennifer Aniston in (after The Switch and Horrible Bosses), which…
Movie Review: Ghost Rider 3D
This movie sucks. What Works: Nicolas Cage pisses fire in one scene. What Doesn’t Work: Well, when the highlight of your movie is Nicolas Cage pissing fire…does it sound like much goes right? What I Would Have Done Differently: I watched this movie for free and the price was still too high. When you begin…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: The Secret World of Arriety
I have to admit I’ve never seen this director’s work before (he’s known primarily for high class anime films based off popular children’s stories). So I can’t say I’m a fan necessarily or can compare this to his other films. My gut feeling is that if you like his other films, you’ll probably like this…