Topic: Movies

A Word On The Super Bowl

A Word On The Super Bowl

If you are watching the Bowl today, I hope you very much enjoy it and that you have all the right kind of snacks. If you are not, I hope you find something equally pleasant with which to pass the time. I’m not anti-Bowls, you know? Let everyone enjoy whatever bowls they like, I’ve always said, having a very tolerant bowl enjoyment policy. I’m broad-minded.

That said, this kind of Event – the bring over your friends and gather round a cracklin’ television kind of Event – brings up a serious question that demands attention from Serious People. Is talking allowed during communal TV-watching? More »

Center Stage, 13 Years Later: The Questions That Remain

Center Stage, 13 Years Later: The Questions That Remain

Is “dance the shit out of it” really a useful mantra in an activity that requires years of training, intense concentration, and technical precision more than enthusiasm?

Did you read the New Yorker‘s profile of Ethan Stiefel last year? If you got the chance to write a New Yorker profile about a cast member from a third-rate teen movie from 2000, who would you choose? I’d probably pick Robert Ri’chard from Alley Cats Strike.

How much of the movie do you think you could still quote verbatim, if you had to? Eighty percent? Ninety? More »

Possible Sequels To Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters

Possible Sequels To Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters

Hollywood cannot keep up with our demand for dark and gritty reimaginings of beloved fairy tales. The last few years have given us Terry Gilliam’s The Brothers Grimm, Twilight’s Snow White and the Huntsman, and now Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hungers is a movie in which Hansel now suffers from witch-candy-induced diabetes (“Hansel is also inflicted with…”sugar sickness” — and periodically slumps into a coma until he self-administers an injection through his britches). There is no turning back. Every year will bring darker and grittier fairy tales, until they become so dark it is impossible to watch them without night-vision goggles. More »

The Five Most Diplomatic Quotes From James Deen’s Daily Beast Interview About Working With Lindsay Lohan

The Five Most Diplomatic Quotes From James Deen's Daily Beast Interview About Working With Lindsay Lohan

If anything positive has come out of the press blitz The Canyons is currently on, it’s the revelation that leading man James Deen is extremely nice, courteous, gentlemanly and professional, not just for a porn star, but for anyone. (Or rather, it’s a revelation for some; I have never doubted my internet boyfriend.) He continued to be all that in an interview The Daily Beast published yesterday, in which he turns down chance after chance to say mean things about his monstrous co-star Lindsay Lohan, instead striving to understand her behavior in as empathetic a way as possible, because he is the Ryan Gosling of porn. Here are the most diplomatic things he said, paired with some sexy promo shots from the film’s Facebook page. More »

Watch Lindsay Lohan Be Exceptionally Dramatic In The Canyons

Watch Lindsay Lohan Be Exceptionally Dramatic In  The Canyons

Remember that exceptionally dramatic scene in Liz & Dick where Lindsay Lohan, playing Elizabeth Taylor, declares that she can’t live without Richard Burton and runs down a hallway to gobble down a fistful of pills? You ain’t seen nothing until you’ve seen her in The Canyons.

Full disclosure, I have no idea whatsoever what is happening in this scene from The Canyons with her and James Deen, other than that cannot be her phone: More »