• I saw Run Fatboy Run* last night with Courtney. It was funny and oh so very corny — man, the symphony was swelling on the soundtrack — with its storyline about a sad sack dude who shirks his duty as a soon-to-be husband and father by leaving his pregnant bride at the altar, and then five years later decides to win her back by running a marathon. That’s a pretty idiotic premise, and I…
Oh, how I love Pajiba. Regarding Superhero Movie and the Movie movies in general: So, I’m asking nicely: Stop it. Just fucking stop it. Don’t make anymore of these goddamn movies. None. The only thing left, anyway, is a motherfucking spoof of spoof movies, which would be like watching yourself look at yourself in a mirror, which would probably cause a flatulent rip in the space/time continuum, and we’d all be sucked into a wet…
• Random thought that just popped into my head while I was taking a shower: Is Jim Varney dead? Yes. Yes, he is. And what’s so weird about that particular thought popping into my head today is that the anniversary of his death was yesterday. My shine is weak. • I’m sitting here with wet hair and a list of errands that can’t be run until the hair is dry. So what am I doing?…
Gentlemen of the world, I feel for you. How can you possibly be at ease with yourself when, somewhere out there in the world, there exists a man so fine that, even when he looks like the love child of a corpse and Susan Sontag, women want to jump his bones (pun fully intended)? I just read that Johnny Depp won a Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy or musical for his part…
I am in complete agreement with FearlessVK that No Country For Old Men is an amazing film — definitely the best of the year and possibly one of the best I’ve ever seen. It is the Coen brothers a their finest (their best movie yet?), returning to their noir crime drama roots, spinning a tale set in the real world that is so real yet somehow not of this world. ::: Spoilers ahead ::: This…
Last night, Phil, Jamie and I sashayed into Studio on the Square (they didn’t even take our tickets, there was so much schmoozing going on the for the film fest) and took our seats. I’d been told by a counter worker that the documentary was playing after the feature, which made no sense to me, but it turned out not to be the case. Daniel Lee, the guy who made the documentary, stood and said…
[for Saturday, Oct. 20] Movie fatigue set in big time when I strolled into the office Saturday — already a cruel joke snickered by the universe — and was immediately informed that my desk would be unavailable for work. Instead, I’d have truck it back to the sports department to do my damn job. There was movie equipment — lights, boards, monitors, etc. — all around my cube. Movie people were standing around, looking at…
Monday night at 9:40, the Daniel Lee short documentary (or “doc” as they say on the streets) will screen as part of the Indie Memphis Film Festival at Studio on the Square. I believe it’s playing just before I Was a Zombie for the FBI, a flick from the early ’80s that boasts a 5.3 IMDb rating! You may have seen this before, but just imagine how awesome it’s going to be on the big…
[for Friday, Oct. 19] (Why do I suddenly feel like John Ritter really missed a career opportunity here?) The movie people weren’t all up in the newsroom yesterday like they were Thursday. Which was a relief for my workplace ADD. Instead, they were all up in the editor’s office filming Angela Bassett-as-editor scenes. They moved our editor’s manly leather couch out and replaced it with a more “feminine” couch so as to be believable. (I…
When I stepped off the elevator at work today, I entered into a magical land of grips and extras and cameras and God knows what else. The newsroom is quite packed with people I’ve never seen before and will never see again, including Noah Wyle (who is very handsome), Angela Bassett, and Kate Beckinsale. You know, you try to be aloof and above the commotion, but when you’re a total dork movie fan, the whole…
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