View image It's a jolly horrorshow with Mary. Just a reminder that I'm hosting the Contrarianism Blog-a-Thon next weekend, Feb. 16 -18. Got some contrarian thoughts you'd like to share? A film theory that goes against the grain? A despised…
Water Music From Big Pink: Gwyneth's Oscar meltdown. From my handy guide on how to avoid making yourself a laughingstock during your Oscar speech, at MSN Movies: The main thing to remember when you win your Oscar (and you know…
Hep Kate: "'Faces'? How's this for a face?" Gosh, ever wonder how entire groups of people often wind up making unsatisfactory and unwise collective decisions? Sometimes it's just a matter of a few wayward votes. (Even on the Supreme Court,…
"Pride": Black Philadelphians can so swim. Take this -- Rush Limbaugh, Snoop "I Can't Swim" Dogg,Tramm Hudson, Al Campanis and others who have reinforced the stereotype that African-Americans cannot swim well because they lack buoyancy. (I bet Martin Lawrence's Big…
View image "Electrifyingly terrorific!" From MediaPost: Famed film producer Harvey Weinstein, now co-chair of The Weinstein Company, formerly the co-founder of Miramax Films, was worried about the copy in a commercial for his forthcoming film "Hannibal Rising." The spot featured…
OK, here comes another one -- the third in my tests of web polling software. These are some of my favorite tag lines (and I'm sure there are lots more, which you can add in Comments). Help me test this…
"I mean, you got the first sorta mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and- and- and clean, and a nice lookin' guy. I mean, it's -- that's a storybook, man!" or "I mean, you got the first sorta mainstream…
I saw "Top Gun" in 1986 when it came out (as it were), with a few friends, one of whom was gay (still is) and who said before the credits were over: "This is the gayest movie I've ever seen."…
Martin Scorsese and a big gold pizza. (DGA photo) In honor of Martin Scorsese's victory at the Director's Guild over the weekend, here's another poll using a different software application. This one's more compact: Just use the drop-down box and…
View image Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland." The New York Times asks: Which Best Actor Oscar nominee is the bestest articulater: Whitaker or Peter O'Toole? (Answer: Neither.) Senator Joseph Biden praised (or faintly damned)…
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