For the last couple summers, HBO has featured a Monday night documentary series. They show a different doc every week, and I’m glad they do. Still, I think last year’s crop (that included the hilarious wannabe superheroes doc, the fascinating Afghanistan women’s prison doc Love Crimes in Kabul, and the excellent expose of our legal…
Will The Democrats Do Anything Stupid (like Pull an Eastwood) at the Convention?
As the Democratic National Convention kicks into a higher gear, the question on everyone’s mind (at least, those that really only follow politics for the sensationalism…which is pretty much every political reporter and blogger on the planet) is “Will there be an ‘Eastwood’ moment?” By that, what they’re really wondering is “Will there be a batshit crazy…
Entertainment Editorial: With Summer Over, How Did My Movie Predictions Turn Out?
Roughly four months back, I made a list of the ten movies I was most excited to see, the five I was most on the fence about, and, of course, the five I was least excited to see. Now that summer is officially over, and we’re getting into the best movie season (the Fall and…
Entertainment Editorial: How The Five Seasons of Breaking Bad Mirror the Five Stages of Dying
As every other Breaking Bad fan gets ready for tonight’s final episode (of this year…with the final eight ever playing next summer), I thought I might share an observation I’ve noticed about the five seasons. The main plot of the show: a mild-mannered, brilliant (and perpetually under appreciated) high school chemistry teacher gets cancer and…
Movie Review: Lawless…A Surprising Dud
One of the movies I was looking the most forward to this summer (and now that summer is officially over, I’ll probably repost that list later today) was “Lawless.” I thought “Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, Shia Lebouf, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, and Guy Pearce working off a script from the guy who wrote The Proposition…
Movie Review: The Expendables 2
I may be a bit late in reviewing this film (which is representative of my enthusiasm for seeing it) since most of the people that are going to watch it have already forked over their money by now. Well, I’m sorry for you…I’d give you a refund but I’m also going to guess that the…
Mom Jokes: The Revenge of the Wives
We do a lot of marriage jokes in this section, and quite a few deal with men who have been…not so happily married for decades. Well, today’s it’s the wife’s turn… He said: I don’t know why you wear a bra, you’ve got nothing to put in it. She said: Why do you wear pants?…
TV Reviews: Season Finales of Breaking Bad and Small Town Security
Okay, so technically it’s not Breaking Bad’s season finale, and it’ll continue this season with eight final episodes, but that’s all the way until next year. For now, let’s get into it… Breaking Bad…It’s no secret I consider this the best show currently on television, and this season has been no exception. It may not…
Bubba’s Sex Tips: Celebrities Should Keep Their Politics To Themselves…Unless They’re Eastwood
Bubba is firmly of the opinion that all those Hollywood liberals (and I hope you can feel the disdain through the italics, as I surely would verbally emphasize the hell out of those words in disgust) should just shut the hell up with their politics and constantly ramming their liberal beliefs down my throat by doing bullshit…
Petty Issues: RNC Edition
I just don’t think Mitt Romney wore enough makeup during his convention speech…I couldn’t tell if it was him or a ventriloquist dummy version of Donny Osmond. While at the convention, Mitt officially accepted the nomination to be the party’s candidate. Or, as Ron Paul supporters call it, “A minor setback for us.” Mia Love…
Larger Editorials: Five Reasons I Don’t Care About the Republican National Convention
I don’t care——at all——about the Republican National Convention. And it isn’t just because I’m a Democrat. It’s because… 5. Republicans Aren’t Showmen. Think about the last true Republican “Entertainer” that was out there, and you probably think of Ronald Reagan. Now think about the people you want to watch put on a show. Musicians? Democrats. Actors? Democrats….
Red State Vs. Blue State: Debating Paul Ryan, Hate Groups, Dirty Campaigning, And Romney’s General Chances
Today I’m debating a friend who graciously agreed to play Devil’s Advocate with the Paul Ryan nomination, although she might have preferred Nikki Haley if it had been her pick. I know this may seem a bit…late to some of you, but I wanted to give it a few weeks so we could really see if…
Alabama Liberal’s Book of the Month Club Pick is…
“Dare Me” by Megan Abbott. I wasn’t totally in love with any of the books I read this month, but Dare Me is a very strong book that cleverly reinvents the noir genre by setting it in a high school…and unravels some deep truths about what the book calls, the “dangerous boredom of teenage girls.”…