a dapper (and sometimes disgruntled) take on popular culture
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Pop Culture on Jun 29th, 2010
It’s 9 p.m. June 29th. It’s a Tuesday night. I just came out of a screening for The Last Airbender and as soon as I walked to Mission and 4th street, I saw a huge line snaking around the Metreon. It was almost one entire block of people waiting for the midnight screening of Eclipse, [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture on Jun 24th, 2010
The latest cover of Entertainment Weekly is quite touching.
Love is love. Vote no on Prop 8.
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture on Nov 20th, 2009
The day that The Twilight Saga: New Moon came out in theaters is going to be known as the day that the loudest, collective tween squeal was heard around the world.
In the second installment of the lovelorn book-to-movie vampire franchise, Bella (Kristen Stewart) is faced with a loss and a gain. Her vampire boyfriend Edward [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Food, Movies, Pop Culture on Nov 19th, 2009
What is the first thing you think of when it comes to vampires and werewolves?
Cupcakes, of course.
The folks at all-vegan Sweet Avenue Bake Shop in Northern New Jersey have created some tasty New Moontreats for all of you who are either in the Team Jacob or Team Edward camp.
Finally, girls can live out their [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Fashion, Film, Movies, Pop Culture on Nov 18th, 2009
We all love (for the most part) Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart, but the Twilight Saga would be nothing without Anna Kendrick.
Kendrick makes it hot on the red carpet in a glitterfied confetti one-shouldered gown by Talbot Runhof at the ‘New Moon’ premiere on Nov. 16
As Jessica in Twilight and New Moon (and [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Magazines, Movies, Pop Culture on Nov 15th, 2009
Just in case you didn’t know, New Moon comes to theaters Friday (Nov. 20) – and December issues of magazines are here to remind us. Constantly remind us.
It’s a good thing because I was starting to forget.
The New Moon threesome (a.k.a. Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, and Robert Pattinson) crammed themselves on to the cover of [...]
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, Video on Oct 20th, 2009
Vampires running fast. Violence. Bella dramatically turning around.
Groundbreaking.
And is it me or did it look like Taylor Lautner was wearing a bit of rouge in that clip?
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Video on Sep 22nd, 2009
I can’t help myself. I know I just did a post about New Moon and how it is going to be “edgier,” but I feel my inner tween breaking out of my skin like a bad case of Hannah Montana gums.
I realize that I am behind on New Moon news, but I just saw [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Video on Sep 22nd, 2009
New Moon, the second installment of the Twilight Saga, like many sequels, promises to be “stepped up a whole other notch” and “more complicated” and “exciting” and “pushed to the next level” and – well, let’s see what Taylor Lautner (a.k.a. Jacob) has to say:
It looks like Sharkboy has done some great media training during [...]