The Tripwires-House to House . There's something about hearing this Seattle band's fun-loving, good-time power pop that brings a smile to my face when I hear one of their tracks. Following up their 2007 debut Makes You Look Around, The Tripwires (consisting of members and former members of The Model Rockets, The Minus 5, and Screaming Trees among others) assert themselves as the 21st Century Rockpile....
Self-described raging, young Jew Justin Hoffer continues to get philosophical, and does to analogies what a hillbilly once did to Ned Beatty : The obligatory post on the "chickenhawk" argument. As I'm getting ready this morning, I feel I should do a post on the left wing "chickenhawk" argument. The basic meaning of the argument is that those of us who are in favour of using war...
Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, is sick of all the abuse he and his fellow usurers have been forced to endure. In a recent interview for the London Sunday Times , Mr. Blankfein issued an inspired defense of Goldman's activities. Appearing in a gray suit with, the reporter weirdly informs us, a jaunty Hermès tie with little red bicycles on it, Blankfein lays it all out,...
Jessica Alba is ready to spank ass with her new movie! The actress will be getting an ass spanking in the new flick, literally! Jessica Alba, most known for her role in the television series ‘Dark Angel’ and later movies ‘Honey,’ ‘Fantastic Four’ among others, is changing her choice of role in the new movie [...]
A promotional trailer has arrived for The Killer Inside Me, the adaptation of the Jim Thompson novel which sees a small town sheriff who slowly allows the psychopathic killer inside him, a part he's been hiding for a very long time, out, and watches his life fall apart around him. Directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty, Bill Pullman, Simon...
I've really been looking forward to footage from Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of the Jim Thompson novel The Killer Inside Me. I'm a massive Thompson fan, and adaptations of his novels have about a .500 average. (I'm the guy that doesn't like The Grifters much; I infinitely prefer a movie like Tavernier's Coup de Torchon.) The cast here seems to be on the money -- Casey Affleck as the duplicitous...
The Outlaw Charon. Quite a few inspired posts lately on defamation law and news by the velvet-voiced Brit pundit, academic, lawyer, broadcast journalist and ladies' man Charon QC--known to his close and admiring friends as "Mike Semple Piggot", an unlikely...
I didn't have a good summer. I had an even crummier fall. ( Here's why .) So I spent a lot of time eating comfort food, reading comforting books (old friends, you might say--and a couple of them three times since July 6th). I've also watched a bunch of old movies that I love, too. One in particular I watched at least four or five times: Superman. Yes, the Christopher Reeve (1st) Superman picture. I've...
Still one of the finest endings in the history of cinema. Charles Dutton as Rudy's mentor Fortune, Jon Favreau as D-Bob and Ned Beatty as Rudy's father steal the scene....
The researchers had also invited an excitable teenage 'cultural commentator' from one of the unpopular papers by way of balance. He managed to work himself up into such an hysterical, nasal lather of sweaty indignation - squealing like Ned Beatty in Deliverance - that he succeeded only in making the BNP man seem reasonable. Snigger .
It wasn't that long ago that a trip to the corner video shop was the most convenient way to get a movie. As technologies have advanced, downloading dvds off movie download sites is becoming very common. Below is a sample of some of the movies you can find using movie download sites.