movies
“21″ Is A Pile of Unwatchable Shit
photo credit: Triin Q
Last night I caught up with the movie 21, based on Ben Mezrich’s book Bringing Down the House. Despite the compulsive readability of the original source material, director Robert Luketic and crew somehow managed to turn the fascinating and engaging story of Ben (Kevin from the book and Jeff Ma from [...]
You Thought You Could Fool ME?!
Way to go, Blockbuster. Just when I thought you’d made amends for past wrongs (read: late fees and shitty wages) by announcing your decidedly awesome Total Access plan, you go and fuck it all up. According to Hacking NetFlix, Blockbuster is sending surveys out to subscribers, basically asking them if they wouldn’t mind having their [...]
Must Be Big In Japan
Just a thought on the Oscars thus far (currently one and a half hours in): Somebody needs to do better fact checking! Maybe I just don’t possess a quality of memory that I always thought I did, but I don’t recall fairly big flubs like these for awhile.
For starters, Ellen DeGeneres has already corrected herself [...]
Oscar Predictions
Okay, this is totally 25th hour, but I figure I may as well throw my Oscar picks out for the sake of posterity.
Best Picture: Babel
Actor: Forest Whitaker
Actress: Helen Mirren
Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin
Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson
Animated Feature: Cars
Art Direction: Pan’s Labyrinth
Cinematography: Children of Men
Costume Designer: Marie Antoinette
Directing: Martin Scorsese
Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth
Documentary Short: Rehearsing a [...]