a dapper (and sometimes disgruntled) take on popular culture
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2010
Duhamel rings a Bell in ‘When in Rome’
The story: When in Rome (not to be confused with the Olsen twin movie by the same title) is your basic story about an art gallery workaholic (Kristen Bell) who dives into a love-granting fountain in Rome to fetch some coins while in a drunken “I am going [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Music, Pop Culture on Jan 25th, 2010
I’ve been slacking on my Oscar buzz movie list. Luckily, I dragged my happy meal ass to see Crazy Heart at the Embarcadero Cinema after work on Friday. I was kind of skeptical about seeing such a movie on a Friday night. According to socially correct standards, one is supposed to go party and get [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture on Jan 14th, 2010
I can officially strike The Lovely Bones off the list!
Stay tuned for the review….
Up in the Air
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Precious
Inglorious Basterds
Invicticus
An Education
Up
A Serious Man
The Messenger
Julie & Julia
A Single Man
Crazy Heart
The Blind Side
The Last Station
Nine
Star Trek
District 9
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Lovely Bones
(500) Days of Summer
It’s Complicated
The Young Victoria
Bright Star
The Informant!
Posted in Actors, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture on Jan 4th, 2010
The Oscars are on March 7 and being the obsessive compulsive person that I am , I must see all of the movies that are generating buzz. Luckily, Entertainment Weekly gave me a helpful guide (and just in case you’re wondering, my lost issue finally came in the mail) of the “25 movies I need [...]
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 Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture on Oct 28th, 2009
I know I am two weeks behind with this, but it’s not like Asian Americans have been flooding entertainment and pop culture (I’m jus’ sayin…)
However, I did finally watch New York, I Love You (a continuation of the much more robust and enjoyable Paris, je t’aime) and despite what some people are saying, there was [...]
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 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 [...]