Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Saturday Night At The Movies Ay, cabron! The Men Who Stare at Goats By Dennis Hartley “These are not the droids you are looking for.” So what do you get when you cross Ishtar with Catch-22 ? Perhaps you would get something along the lines of The Men Who Stare at Goats, the first genuine goofball farce that anyone has managed to squeeze out utilizing the generally unfunny...
Beginning To Wonder (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... night horror shows and try to calm down my traumatized cats. And, speaking of Halloween films, Dennis Hartley over at Hullabaloo has a great post up, the second half of which is called Creepy Lodgers and Seedy Inns: The 10 Worst Places to Check In at the Movies .
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Saturday Night At The Movies A special midnight double feature for Halloween! By Dennis Hartley Part 1: Art is a strange hotel Bill and Andy’s excellent adventure: Chelsea on the Rocks Since 1883, the Hotel Chelsea in New York City has been considered to be the center of the universe by bohemian culture vultures. It has been the hostelry of choice for the holiest of hipster saints...
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Saturday Night At The Movies Wild child, full of grace By Dennis Hartley Pathos, on a cliff by the sea: Where the Wild Things Are Shilo, when I was young I used to call your name When no one else would come Shilo, you always came and we'd play -from “Shiloh” by Neil Diamond Childhood is a magical time. Well, at least until the Death of Innocence…whenever that is supposed...
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Saturday Night At Movies Death Wish 300 By Dennis Hartley Man of few words: Gerard Butler studies his line. Cartoonist Matt Groening published a panel back in 1985 that was entitled “How to be a Clever Film Critic”, challenging wannabe Eberts and Kaels to ask themselves (among other things) this soul-searching question: “Do you thrill at the prospect of spending a career...
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Saturday Night At The Movies The accidental tsuris By Dennis Hartley The noodge-y professor: A Serious Man Someone I once worked with in my standup comedy days (my hand to God, I wish I could remember who) had a great bit that he called “Jewish calisthenics”. “Okay,” he would exhort the audience, “Here we go…ready? Neck back, and…repeat after...
Corrente (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Via Cannonfire , Digby on Dennis Hartley's review of Moore's Capitalism : read more
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Saturday Night At The Movies Let fiefdom ring By Dennis Hartley King Midas in reverse: Michael Moore calls out the bailed out Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own Who comes to speak for the skin and bone? -Billy Bragg So it’s not just me. A few months ago, in my review of Public Enemies , I wrote: If you blink, you might miss the chance to revel in a delicious moment of...
Laptophobia (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Saturday Night At The Movies Tiptoe through the P-Patch: No Impact Man By Dennis Hartley “Yeah, but I mean, I would never give up my electric blanket, Andre. I mean, because New York is cold in the winter. I mean, our apartment is cold! It's a difficult environment. I mean, our life is tough enough as it is. I'm not looking for ways to get rid of a few things that provide relief...
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Saturday Night At The Movies Tiptoe through the P-Patch: No Impact Man By Dennis Hartley “Yeah, but I mean, I would never give up my electric blanket, Andre. I mean, because New York is cold in the winter. I mean, our apartment is cold! It's a difficult environment. I mean, our life is tough enough as it is. I'm not looking for ways to get rid of a few things that provide relief...
