This is a really, really divisive film and you have to be a very specific kind-of audience to watch it and in a very specific kind-of mood to like it. It doesn’t have a “plot” so much as a loose story and how much you like it will probably depend on what you go to…
Movie Review: To Rome With Love
There are really two schools of critics when it comes to current-day Woody Allen. There are those who are just thankful the legend is still alive and still making roughly a movie a year (not unlike an auteur version of James Patterson). And there are those that think this approach has really, really caused the…
Mom Jokes: Bad Teacher
My son was kicked out of school for letting a girl give him a hand job. I said “Son, that’s three this year. You’d better stop before they don’t let you teach anywhere.” [In honor of Breaking Bad’s return.]
TV Review: Breaking Bad’s Final Season Premiere
The best show on Television (right now) is back and all is right with the world. Some fans (and non-fans) may have seen the season 5 posters of TV’s most complicated lead character ever, Walter White, sitting in a lab with mountains of cash and meth around him, and the tagline “All hail the king.”…
Petty Issues Turns Positive: Burning Love’s Greatness, Breaking Bad’s Return, and Barney Frank’s Marriage
I had an especially great weekend, and rather than the usual-usual, I decided to keep the positivity going by counting down just a few things I love this week. 5. The GOP congressmen wasted yet more time and taxpayer money by having their thirty third vote to repeal “Obamacare” and lost yet again. But the positive part…
Working Class Economist: Scranton, Pennsylvania…the New Republican Dream and Everyone Else’s Nightmare
Scranton, Pennsylvania—-the notoriously dumpy/depressing rust belt armpit that is the setting of NBC’s The Office—-is now famous for an entirely different reason. They have become the first city in the country to slash 400 government employees pay down to minimum wage. [That’s 7.25 an hour, otherwise known as “a joke” for a working adult to be…
Entertainment Editorial: The 15 Best “Breaking Bad” Episodes
Well, it’s that time again. Time to get ready for another season of the best show on television, AMC’s Breaking Bad. In order to prepare both the uninitiated and the die-hard fans alike for the new season, I thought I’d list what I consider to be the 15 best episodes of the series so far….
Movie Review: Brave
How well you like this movie really comes down to whether you’re a fan of old-Disney princesses (everything from Cinderella to Pocahontas) or Pixar (everything from Ratatouille to Wall-E). Because this is definitely the most traditionally Disney movie that Pixar has ever made. It takes a reliably Disney formula (slightly tradition-breaking princess + slightly different…
Larger Editorial: Inside Romney’s “Condoleezza Rice as VP” SCAM, His Most Cynical Ploy Yet
Reporters everywhere were tricked today into thinking that Mitt Romney was actually considering Condoleezza Rice as his running mate. That’s right, I say “tricked” because there’s no way in hell he’ll pick “Condi” and he knows it, but he wants us to think she’s being considered. “But why?” gentle readers may ask. Well, for starters, she’s black….
Petty Issues: Cooper’s Closet, Katie’s Crocodile Tears, GlaxoSmithKline’s Greed, and Rupert’s Rants
Anderson Cooper says “I’m gay.” America says “No shit.” Am I the only person who doesn’t feel sorry for Katie Holmes? Tom Cruise didn’t “ruin” her career…her acting did that. Whatever millions she’s ever able to shake Cruise down for are more than she’d ever make trying to get “Mad Money 2” green lit. Obama’s…
Down & Out in Bumblefuck: Tom Cruise’s Worst Week Ever
What’s a mega-star to do? Tom Cruise is finding himself in the middle of a very, very bad week. Perhaps the worst he’s had since he shot to mega-fame in Risky Business. I mean, a box office flop (Rock of Ages) that was supposed to show off his range, a divorce from his THIRD wife…
Entertainment Editorial: Why Steven Soderbergh is The Best Director Alive
Anytime someone is willing to declare anything “the best” rather than “one of the best,” they open themselves up to quite a bit of criticism. You can practically feel people racing to the comments section to tell you you’re full of shit (if people on this site used the comments section), but who really wants…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: “Magic Mike,” Better Than You Might Think
Will gay men and straight women (the movie’s key demographic) enjoy this movie? They should. But will straight men dragged to this movie by their girlfriends or wives (like myself) enjoy this movie? Actually, they just might. It all falls down to three important factors 1. There is nearly as much female nudity as male…