a dapper (and sometimes disgruntled) take on popular culture
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture on Nov 5th, 2009
Based on the posters, previews and Taylor Lautner’s new buffed bod, New Moon is going to do two things: 1.) Make girls swoon and drool. and 2.) Make guys want to work out.
Do I really need to be reminded that I don’t have the washboard abs of an oily variety werewolf bohunk?
Forget the lovelorn werewolf-vampire-human [...]
Posted in Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Video on Oct 28th, 2009
I ran across this trailer (actually it was forwarded to me from my co-worker Edith) and I think it was one of the most thought provoking preview for documentary that I’ve seen:
It has a very valid point about journalism and, more than that, it makes me reevaluate my intrigue with celebrities and stardom.
…but I [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Uncategorized on Oct 15th, 2009
Just as I was about to write this review of Where the Wild Things Are, my sister texted me and asked if she should take her two-year-old son to see the movie. I said, “I don’t know – he won’t comprehend the moral.” Then I thought, “Wait a second – I didn’t even comprehend the [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture on Oct 13th, 2009
Even though I need to be up at 6:30 a.m., there’s a reason why I am still up past 1 a.m. on a Monday night. It’s a valid reason. A very valid reason. It’s this little bitch of a movie called Paranormal Activity.
I have been putting this movie at the bottom of my list since [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Uncategorized on Oct 2nd, 2009
The Hurl Scouts jam out on the roller derby track: (from left) Smashley Simpson (Drew Barrymore), Babe Ruthless (Ellen Page) and Maggie Mayhem (Kristen Wiig)
“Let’s celebrate mediocrity,” says Razor (Andrew Wilson), the coach of the roller derby team affectionately called “The Hurl Scouts” in the movie Whip It after they lost one of many competitions.
This [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Uncategorized on Oct 1st, 2009
The new zombie action heroes: Eisenberg (left) and Harrelson
Once in a while, there’s a film that reinvents the zombie genre. Zombieland isn’t that film – but that doesn’t mean it didn’t succeed in the whole “running away from mindless flesh hungry monsters” shtick. In fact, it succeeded and then some.
The film decides to bypass [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Fashion, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Style, Video on Sep 30th, 2009
A Single Man, Tom Ford’s directorial debut, he obviously compacts the entire movie into a two-minute trailer that looks like cutting room floor footage of a Gucci ad. There is no need to see the movie because it was told with such clarity with this trailer. Let me break it down for you.
1.) There’s a [...]
Posted in Actors, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Television, Video on Sep 28th, 2009
Oh look. Another remake from my childhood.
Beware…this video might have been pulled from the Internet by the time you read this post.
I’ve decided to stop questioning this whole remake thing that Hollywood is going through and just go with it. With the new Nightmare on Elm Street (out in theaters April 2010) ordeal, Jackie Earle [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Television, Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2009
The tally went off the charts this week…
Anna Maria Perez de Tagle is the ‘joy’ of ‘Fame’
Anna Maria Perez de Tagle: The tween starlet plays Joy in Fame.
Valerie Tian can be spotted in Jennifer’s Body (she was also the abortion protester in Juno, also a Diablo Cody scribed film)
How did I manage to leave out [...]
Posted in Actors, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Music, Pop Culture, Video on Sep 24th, 2009
Tonight, I was treated to a screening of the new Fame movie and although I would like to share my thoughts about yet another Hollywood “reinvention,” I’ll save it for Friday.
In the meantime, there is one song in the film that echoes my head: “On My Own”. Not only have I made a mental note [...]