There are certain places that you’re allowed to swear: in the bedroom of a loved one during some sort of steamy romp, a rum-fuelled pool party round Samuel L. Jackson’s house, a Derek & Clive record. But there are other places where it’s not so cool to swear: in the bedroom of a dying relative during some sort of last rites, a fundraiser for a Pentecostal Church-sponsored under-eight’s...
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And now the moment we've all been waiting for: two weeks ago I asked New West readers to vote on what book I should review next. I was delighted and relieved when several people voted. The winner, with four votes, is Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West by Marcia Meredith Hensley. I'll review it next Monday. And since the voting was so tight, I plan to review the runner-up, How it Looks Going...
Posted as part of Operation 101010 Category: comedies / In category: 3 of 10 / Overall: 19 of 100 After the first five minutes of ‘In the Loop’, I was convinced that Armando Iannucci and his three co-scripters had used a poison pen to write the screenplay. Half an hour in, I decided they’d used a typewriter ribbon marinated in the blood of small fluffy animals. By the end, I was guessing...
I don't mean to sound facile about a grave occurence, but Variety's senior film critic Todd McCarthy has been whacked, Joe Pesci-style. The ailing trade paper's president Neil Stiles has told N.Y. Times "Decoder" contributor Michael Cieply that McCarthy and theatre critic David Rooney have been let go as a cost-saving measure. Ex-Variety staffer Todd McCarthy during the 2007 Cannes Film Festival...
JFK (1991) Directed by Oliver Stone Screenplay by Oliver Stone & Zachary Sklar, based on the books On The Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison and Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs Produced by Oliver Stone, A. Kitman Ho Running time: 189 minutes (theatrical version)/ 206 minutes (director’s cut) Should I Care? Before Michael Moore came [...]
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards take place on Sunday, so we thought it’s a good time to share several searchable databases worth knowing about. Actually, they’re not only worth knowing about for ready reference but these databases might be valuable to a variety of researchers. Access to all of these resources is free. First, the [...]
A petty criminal (Robert Downey Jr.) in NYC stumbles into a film audition while on the run from some cops and earns himself a trip out to LA and a chance to star in a Hollywood production. Once there the studio hooks him up with a gay P.I. (Val Kilmer) for detective lessons, and soon this unlikely pair are knee-deep in a twisted tale of murder, mystery, and mistaken identity.
This comes out of the blue. Sad news . T-Bone Wolk, best known for his work with Hall And Oates, died Saturday, 27 February, of a heart attack at the age of 58. Since the late '70s, Wolk has been one of the steadiest-working bassists in popular music. A small sampling of his discography is as follows: Carly Simon, Shawn Colvin, Elvis Costello, Roseanne Cash, Cyndi Lauper, Harry Nilsson, Amanda Marshall,...
In Cop Out, for the first time, Kevin Smith takes on a script for hire. In place of Jay, Silent Bob, his other stock View Askew-niverse characters, the filmmaker works with screenwriters Robb and Mark Cullen to give us his 21st century version of the age-old interracial buddy cop formula.
“It’s not stealing,” protests NYPD detective Paul Hodges as he readies for his “performance” interrogating a suspect. “It’s called homage.” Since he’s played by comic Tracy Morgan (TV’s 30 Rock), homage is mis-pronounced. Since the movie is Cop Out, the “homage” is to ‘80s cop movies — a fond remembrance [...]
photo credit: anthony040 The Pick: When I hear the name Vieira, I don’t think about a lady by the name of Meredith. Nope, as a lover of the beautiful game (which is not Who Wants to Be a Millionaire), I think of Patrick Vieira. Vieira is as well known for his fiery temper as he is [...]
The list of people banned from Las Vegas is a litany of dishonour. But among the swindlers, fixers and mobsters — many of their mugshots displayed on the Nevada Gaming Commission’s website under the heading Excluded, Wanted & Denied — is a new and rather unlikely name: that of Barack H. Obama, of Washington. • Oscar Goodman is a former criminal defence lawyer who made a fortune...
Six Friday Videos Here is the playlist for this week.. I'll give it a B on the whole. BabyLove - Number 3 - bottom of the barrel style humor but sort of mind blowing to think this airs on TV somewhere. Mortal Kombat: Bus Bloodbath - this is in poor taste but it's amusing so I accept it. Texas Flashlight - this. is. terrifying. I don't even want to get into why I find this so disturbing, I hope it's...
Surfing them Internets, there are some things that got my attention. The biggest attention-getter? "We're sorry. Firefox has experience a problem and crashed." They left out "...because we can't put out good software." After suffering through that introduction to my first full day of Firefox 3.6, things went smoothly. For me. For the rest of world, not so smooth. Read on... What's...
Why the original Transformers movie is better than the new one? chambers and, perhaps, the Elephant Man's bones. Whether an illness or a form of self-mutilation, it was a shame. The appealingly handsome young man on the cover of Off the Wall and Thriller morphed (as in the famous "Black or White" video) into a synthetic science-fiction construction that could only have inhabited an artificial universe
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What is your favourite transformer?
My favourite transformer is Bumble Bee (duh). So tell me what your favourite is.
WHY TRANSFORMERS 2 WAS NOT AS GOOD AS TRANSFORMERS 1
Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen was not as good as Transformers, because in the first movie there was more robot battles, but, in the second movie there...