It’s “Alien Invasion” Day on Alabama Liberal and so that includes a review of this movie which tries to join two genres: alien invasion movies (which have been almost exhausted) and westerns (which have been almost entirely ignored for two decades). I can’t say it’s entirely successful, but I absolutely appreciate the effort. In a…
Movie Review: Attack the Block
Alien invasion week day continues in this scrappy upstart horror film that manages to be more fun and just as scary as Cowboys & Aliens on less than one tenth the budget. In this movie the aliens attack a housing project in inner city London, and our “heroes” are a “gang” of wannabe toughs that…
Movie Review: Another Earth
Continuing Alabama Liberal’s alien invasion day, is a movie that isn’t really about alien invasions. Another Earth is essentially two movies. One of them is a ponderous, unrealistic drama about a young woman (Brit Marling) who kills a man’s (William Mapother) family in a drunken car wreck and then strikes up a relationship with the…
Larger Editorial: The Democrat’s Real Enemy Number 1 is Liberal Infighting
So the Mongol Horde, I mean, SS, I mean, Tea Party got everything they wanted this past week and saw the three branches of government bow to them in an unprecedented way for a group that is 1. Not a major political party, 2. Only been around 3 years (tough break Green Party!), 3. Not…
Petty Issues
I leave for a week and Amy Winehouse up and dies on us. Why is it always someone talented that dies like her or Heath Ledger? Kim Kardashian will live forever and her biggest talent is breathing while being filmed. The debt ceiling was finally raised after a month of stagnant, tedious bickering. This is…
WCE: Why Republicans Should Immigrate to the “Small Government” Haven of Somalia
“I don’t want to eliminate government. I want to shrink it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it.”–Grover Norquist, current Republican “thinker”/former Confederate soldier. Over and over again, we’ve been told by Republicans that government is inefficient, wasteful, harmful, dangerous, a thief, and pretty much everything but a…
Entertainment Editorial: Do Stars Still Matter?
When I say stars, I mean big name actors. And when I say big name actors, I don’t mean Kim Kardashian. Now this item isn’t meant to ask if actors are still necessary–I still remember all those articles saying actors were now irrelevant in the wake of completely CGI animated movies like Final Fantasy…which promptly…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Captain America
This movie is curious because I remember liking it decently as I watched it, and that’s good. But only two days later I can hardly remember a thing about it, and that’s not so good. It was solid, wholesome, respectable…and just a little bit boring. This movie is so old fashioned it could be one…
Movie Review: The Devil’s Double
This movie should have been better than it was. It’s loosely based (and, to me, very loosely) on the actual life of the man chosen to be Uday Hussein’s body double. It starts around the time of the Iraq/Iran war and ends several years after the first Gulf War. Dominic Cooper plays both the poor,…
Movie Review: Friends with Benefits
I hate this “movie” which is really just an excuse to make money on top of money. First they make money by selling tickets to people but also the film practically pays for itself by some of the most obvious product placement I’ve ever seen in a major film. Justin Timberlake’s “character” in this extended…
Movie Review: Zookeeper
The best thing I can say for Zookeeper is that I didn’t hate it. I don’t know what it says about me that I know Zookeeper sucks but I still found myself thinking it was as good as any of the other movies I’m reviewing today. Although Captain America, The Devil’s Double, and Friends with…
Sunday’s Sermons: Changing Marriage in New York
So all over the internet I’ve been seeing ads saying “Conventional Marriage Under Attack!” and “Stop the threats to REAL marriage!” Now I didn’t realize gay marriage was such a threat to conventional marriage or exactly how it threatens it. Have homosexuals acquired a gay atomic bomb? Will it be dropped from Neil Patrick Harris’s…
Bubba’s Sex Tips: My Official Invitation for Michelle Bachmann to Be My Date at the Confederate Ball
So recently we have some headline-hogging Marines trying to derail the ceiling debt fight’s quest to monopolize all news, our government’s ongoing squabble over money the third one this year alone. [They are officially the married couple that should be divorced that people avoid at parties, Republicans the drunken, self-destructive husband who keeps ranting about…