Lunch with strangers was great…
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010Lunch with strangers was great. They picked up the check AND didn’t murder me!
Archive for November, 2010
About to have lunch with stran…
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010About to have lunch with strangers. Might be murdered. Will update.
Anyone else disappointed by th…
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010Anyone else disappointed by the “Women of SNL” special? Many cast members ignored, focus on very recent stuff, odd sketch choices, etc.
OK, you got us to be intereste…
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010OK, you got us to be interested in Delaware politics for a few minutes. Nice prank. Now don’t pull a stunt like that again.
Well, I guess if a non-white m…
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010Well, I guess if a non-white man with a funny name can be president, one can be Speaker of the House, too.
This is from the Goonies seque…
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010This is from the Goonies sequel, isn’t it? // RT @FatboyRoberts MAGNIFICENT http://twitpic.com/33d8t7
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 29
Monday, November 1st, 2010Pardon the non-Fridayness of this Friday Movie Roundup. There was a technical issue with Eric’s brain on Friday that caused it to seize up and not do anything.
But there aren’t any movies anyway, so whatever. “Saw 3D” (review at Cinematical), one of Hollywood’s Shameful Secrets®, opened Thursday night for the paying public and went about the way these things usually do. Note that in addition to reviewing this entry, Eric composed a brief roundup of the entire franchise for Salt Lake City Weekly, an actual newspaper that is printed on trees and strewn through Utah’s streets, and somehow this is legal.
“Conviction” (review at Film.com) went into wide-ish release. It’s the average story of an average inspiring woman who does an average inspiring thing.
In limited release, there’s the Sundance docudrama “Howl,” about the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and his fondness for howling.
At Film.com: “What’s the Big Deal?” is about “Dr. Strangelove,” a movie that makes Eric laugh very hard. “Eric’s Bad Movies” is about “Double Team,” starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman, and a jungle cat. Eric also came up with a list of things that could theoretically stop the train in “Unstoppable.”
At Cinematical: Word got out a couple weeks ago that the “Alien” prequel now in development has a scene where some dumb aliens use mind control to get their enslaved humans to breed, except the humans in question are both male, which the aliens didn’t realize would be a problem. Since this sounds less like a plot device for a sci-fi movie and more like a premise for a comedy sketch, Eric wrote a comedy sketch.
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