The new novel deals with the Fall of Leningrad, Nazis, war ravaged Russia, the stories grandfathers tell, and an impossible mission. I’ve only just begun it, but Benioff’s prose is absorbing and it’s a hard book to put down.
Having loved the 25th Hour, I found that with David Benioff’s work, you don’t read it in short spurts only to eventually get to the ending. Instead there’s lots of time well spent, engrossed, and eagerly awaiting to return to the pages when torn away.
In 1979 the television gods smiled down and gave us Legends of the Super Heroes!
Taking a team of some of DC Comics’s greatest superheroes Hanna-Barbera’s producers pitted them in a race to stop a villainous team’s plot—and to also have the occasional roast hosted by Ed McMahon.
The makers of the Saw franchise bring us Kevin Bacon as a man out to protect his family from local ethnic street toughs who kill his son during a botched gas station robbery. His perfect life in shambles and failed by the justice system this mild-mannered executive takes matters into his own hands to protect his family.
Transformed by grief and excessive love of Punisher comics Kevin Bacon’s everyman comes to the chilling conclusion that—sometimes you have to protect what’s yours!
Oh, yeah and it’s called: Death Sentence
See for yourself:
It should be real interesting to see how the Saw team has dealt with the race and class issues that this film seems to be drawing on to build the fear in it’s audience.
I’m sure there’s a logical plot point as to why Kevin Bacon’s character crops his hair down to skin. Probably, an unfortunate lice infestation. That has to be why. Right? Man, he can’t catch a break.
The Coens have been all over the place with their last few movies, No Country for Old Men looks to be more in the vein of Miller Crossing, Fargo, and the Man Who Wasn’t There than some of their broader stuff. Thankfully a wider audience be exposed to Cormac McCarthy’s work and Javier Bardem, who looks like he’s taking this role and knocking it out of the park.
Looks just badass.
Next:
The Cusack family reunites in a pitch black political comedy that looks like a Grosse Pointe Blank sequel or at least a karmatic cousin. Makes no matter to me how the pieces come together, it looks to be the making of another Cusack flick that will spend a lot of time in my DVD player.
Remeber Donkey Kong?
Yeah, the original one, with the little guy jumping over the barrels to get get the girl from that monkey.
Turns out somebody actually still plays it.
Congratulations are in order! Colby Buzzell’s My War: Killing Time In Iraq won the 2007 Lulu Blooker prize,which recognizes the best book that began as a blog on the Internet. This comes in the same week that U.S. military abruptly blocked soldiers’ access to Myspace, Facebook, MTV, YouTube, and other sites because of “bandwidth” issues.
Listen below to Buzzell discussing that issue on Talk of the Nation.
30 Rock’s over for the season and thankfully it’ll be back next year even if Alec Baldwin has to pretend to troop through it so his public doesn’t have to concern themselves any longer with his parenting abilities.
Let’s be honest Thursdays have been lonelier and a lot lighter on laughs without Tina Fey & Co. The Office is unevenly funny most of the time and Scrubs keeps trying too hard to maintain any vitality.
Before the withdrawal shakes get too intense:
Go here, to catch up on any episodes you may have missed.
Check out Jesse Thorn’s hysterical interview with Jack McBrayer (Kenneth the page) on The Sound of Young America—available in both audio and video(!) formats.
If anything it’s worth listening to just for this exchange:
Jack: I haven’t made any major irresponsible purchases yet. Oh, I can’t wait to.
Jesse: What’s the first thing you’re gonna buy?
Jack: I’m gonna buy a futon. A futon made of baby skin.
Below, Tina Fey’s trip to the Howard Stern show from last November, in which she dishes on her pre-marital inability to even give it away, SNL, and of course that certain blonde Fraggle-haired-walking-STD who’s currently crusading to further prove that not everyone has to abide by our country’s laws.1
If you’re still fooling yourself that Paris Hilton’s going to do 24 consecutive hours let alone a minute of jail time, let me take this opportunity to welcome you to this country.[back]
The Black Keys played on NPR’s World Cafe1 about their career path thus far. One exciting thing on the horizon—a collaboration with recent Grammy winning Bluesman Ike Turner2 on their forthcoming album which is being produced by Danger Mouse.
