When I was growing up my mom and I watched Wildcats and I’m certain that I was too damn young to understand half the racially tinged jokes and social commentary that lurked in that movie. A well-to-do white woman goes and coaches an inner city high school football team (whose principal is Nipsy Russell for […]
Today is Dan’s birthday, and I’ve been thinking all week of movie clips that make him laugh, and dammit if I can’t think of any. The guy just loves his damn French subtitled movies and shit shot in black and white and in the 14 years of knowing the guy I just can’t recall a […]
As most people know, I’m a huge fan of the documentary Darkon. And like the funny subplot of Role Models, here is a movie that looks to blend the realms of Darkon and the campy humor of Army of Darkness, which means it could hold promise of delivering laughs. […]
A podcast I listen to frequently talks about movies and moviemaking and inside stories behind how movies were made and such (something I love listening to). One of the topics recently discussed were funny scenes that made it into mainstream movies that were oddly left in despite being just weird. Here’s a smattering of some […]
As a household that relishes Pixar films, I have no doubt that the wife will want to see this post-haste when it is released. This is just a teaser trailer, but considering that it’s co-directed by a woman (first time ever for an animated film), is based (apparently) in Ireland and an apparently badass female […]
Luke and I share a weird fascination with QTips. Not sure why, but in college both of us discovered there are few things as satisfying as cleaning your ear canals. What can I say, I’m an idiot. Anyway, while cleaning my ears this morning I stared at myself in the mirror and instantly flashed to […]
I loathe the entire existence of cellphones in movie theaters. I hate it. I can’t stand the texting. I can’t stand the talking during the movie. I’ve only been OK with it in two instances, and both those movies were named Jackass and it was only because the whole theater was talking shit and having […]
Hopefully this will not become a running series of posts, but I guess it all depends on the wife’s actions, not my own. In this inaugural post, this is all about the wife’s new routine in the kitchen. In something that can almost definitely be defined as life imitating art, the wife is trying to […]
A couple trailers to movies I am really looking forward to: X-Men: First Class What can I say, I’m a geek for comic book movies. And though I’m still excited for Thor (despite the trailers that make it look campy without the self-recognition of camp) and also Green Lantern (trailer looks like a video game […]
A clip from one of my favorite journalism movies, Broadcast News. Great cast (Albert Brooks and the always fantastic Holly Hunter) and is a poignant satire of an industry I once wanted to be a member of. Then I went to college and saw what a joke TV news was, and wisely left it … […]