This movie is dog shit. I hate to start off the new year with such a bad movie, but here it is. [I’m using today to clear out some of the movies that I technically saw last year but haven’t gotten around to reviewing yet.] What Works: Nothing. This movie is one of the absolute…
Sunday’s Sermons: New Year’s Revolution
Even though no holiday is a bad one–at least out of the major ones that get people out of work for a day–my favorite one remains a combination of the last six hours of December 31st and the entirety of January 1st. There’s just something about the promise of New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day that…
Every Movie I’ve Seen This Year, From Worst to Best
To complete the end of the site’s first year, I thought I’d count down from all the movies I’ve seen this year (all 122 of them). From worst of the year all the way down to the best. There are still a dozen of movies I haven’t seen that I think COULD have wound up…
2011 Was a Great Year For the World (Whether The World Realizes It or Not)
I can’t think of a year in recent memory that offered so much and got recognized for so little. This year, people’s moods were generally pretty down thanks to a sluggish worldwide economy and dismal U.S. jobs numbers. [Of course, it doesn’t help that one of the two U.S. political parties tried to milk every…
Petty Issues: End of the Year Edition
As we close out the year, let’s take a look at everything our wonderful Republicans did for us in 2011: First the new Tea Party-led House of Representatives kick started the year by holding the economy hostage over renewing the Bush tax cuts, then they held it hostage over passing a yearly budget, then they…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Mission Impossible 4
It seems like everyone in America saw this movie already this weekend (who knew Tom Cruise could still pack houses like that?) but for those that didn’t…let me muddy the waters of if you should go or not by saying this is a solid B movie. If you like cartoonish action movies (I prefer darker…
Movie Review: We Bought a Zoo
One of the movies that opened during this busy Christmas week, and also (unfortunately) one of the least successful at the box office. It might be a one-joke movie (it’s literally in the title) but it turns out that that one joke is a pretty good one. What Works: Matt Damon instantly elevates this story…
Movie Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
I’ll be right up front in saying I enjoyed this movie. It may not be the movie I was hoping it would be (it was directed by the amazing David Fincher after all), but I feel it did the best possible job it could have with the book’s source material. I haven’t actually read the…
Movie Review: The Adventures of TinTin
At the risk of severely angering any European or African fans of Alabama Liberal (all…well I was going to say “all two of them” but there are probably as many people on other continents reading the site as those in Alabama itself), I have to admit right off the bat that I was a little…
Petty Issues: Christmas Edition
Worst Present: A pack of socks…No matter how much someone pretends like it’s something they needed, they’re lying. Sure, you might “need” socks, but you probably also need a tooth brush, shaving cream, bar soap, or any number of things you could buy at a drug store for a pocketful of loose change. Worst Food:…
Occupy Y’all Street, Why Alabama SHOULD Be Protesting Too
On Working Class Economist, we like to cover an economic issue by what it means for the people CNBC never talks about: the majority of Americans, and by that I mean people making less than 35,000 a year. And no where is more working class (or desperately in need of clarification on economic issues) than…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: The Descendants
This movie stars George Clooney as a Hawaiian father of two whose wife is left permaneantly comatose from a boating accident, and only after that accident does he learn that she was cheating on him. It is also a sure thing best picture nominee and will be on almost every critic’s top ten list. Problem is…I’m…
Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes, Game of Shadows
The good news: this movie is exactly what you think it would be…that’s also the bad news. What Works: This is clearly a sequel that wants to leave the first one’s audience happy so once again Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law are back as the ambiguously gay duo, Holmes doesn’t want Watson to get…