From the monthly archives:

December 2009

Al Franken Tells Joe Lieberman to Put a Sock in It

December 17, 2009
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Al Franken sticks it to Joe “Filibuster” Lieberman, then gets a hissy fit lecture from John McCain, who really should take his meds before going out in public.  See the video below.
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Jack Bauer Interrogates Santa Claus

December 17, 2009
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Jack Bauer doesn’t take nothin’ from nobody.  And he doesn’t let those pesky ol’ Constitutional rights stand in the way of a decent interrogation, never mind who’s in the hot seat.  Check it out in the video below.

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Tom Ford Shoots Christopher Isherwood

December 16, 2009
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Julianne Moore is apparently reprising (or at least recasting) her role as a gorgeous redhead romantically (and frustratingly) attracted to a repressed gay man.  The previous outing (no pun intended) was, of course, “Far From Heaven,” in which her surly, whiskey-drenched, gay husband was played manfully by Dennis Quaid.
This time around, Moore is chasing the [...]

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Matt Damon Goes Green

December 15, 2009
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Matt Damon sounding hoarse, with bags under his eyes.  Carrying automatic weapons.  The shot is captured by a relentlessly bobbing handheld camera.  It’s the the kind of shot that makes you relentlessly nauseous.  In one scene, a plot pointer it seems, Greg Kinnear is having a hissy, and holding a Very Big Phone, which must [...]

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Mel Gibson Gets His Mad On

December 13, 2009
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You know from the first couple of seconds into this trailer that something very nasty is about to happen to Mel Gibson – or rather, his daughter.  Big mistake.  We all know what happens when Mel gets his mad on.  Trouble in River City – not to mention a few racial slurs, followed by artfully [...]

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Tim Allen Goes Crazy

December 13, 2009
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Ever wonder what happens to former sitcom stars when the sitcom lifeline has been cut?  They end up in movies like “Crazy on the Outside,” the latest vehicle for Tim Allen.  Judging from the trailer, this might have made a viable premise for a new sitcom for Allen – if sitcoms were still popular.  From [...]

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Nightmare Alley – Classic Trailer

December 11, 2009
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Title: Nightmare Alley
Release Date: 1947
Genre: Drama/Noir
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Tyrone Power, Coleen Gray, Joan Blondell, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki
Director: Edmund Goulding
Screenwriter: Jules Furthman
Producer: George Jessel
Commentary:
“Nightmare Alley,” a 1947 drama starring Tyrone Power, and directed by Edmund Goulding, was sourced from a novel by William Lindsay Gresham.  Tyrone Power bought the rights to the [...]

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Saint Buscemi of the Indieprods

December 10, 2009
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Steve Buscemi has taken another step towards cementing his reputation as king of the indieprods.  In his latest outing, “Saint John of Las Vegas,” he plays a veteran Vegas gambler (read: loser) who decides to take a stab at life in the mainstream.  He lands a job with an insurance company, and before long he’s [...]

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James Cameron Pushes the CGI Envelope with Avatar

December 10, 2009
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James Cameron has pushed the CGI envelope again with his latest effort in the blockbuster genre, “Avatar.”  Judging from the trailer, the film is 75% special effects, and 25% elements recycled from previous Cameron films. Then again, minus the special effects, you could say the same thing about most films churned out by Federico Fellini, [...]

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George Clooney: the Man Who Stares at Planes

December 9, 2009
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George Clooney flexes his star muscles again this season, this time around in “Up in the Air,” a comedy-drama (in the future, when narrative-challenged audiences lose their ability to identify genres, all films will be hybrids) in which Clooney plays a corporate downsizing expert, i.e. a hired gun who specializes in firing redundant executives.
While this [...]

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