George Saunders appeared on Letterman last week to promote the release of his new book of essays—The Braindead Megaphone.
Since we lost Kurt Vonnegut this last year it’s a good thing we have George Saunders still knocking around.
Entries Tagged 'Video' ↓
The Braindead Megaphone
September 10th, 2007 — Video
And you thought Batman was campy…
August 8th, 2007 — T.V., Video, When Nerds Attack
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.
Robin Crashes the Batmobile
Ghetto Man Roasts The Super Friends
Aunt Minerva
The Private Lives of Super-Heroes
Maybe they should have called it ‘White Flight’ instead?
July 30th, 2007 — Video
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.
Movie Trailer Park
June 16th, 2007 — My $0.02, Video
Two movies I can’t wait to see.
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.
Factoids from a garage sale
June 5th, 2007 — Video
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.
Oh, and Ray Bradbury wanted to let you know that you’re stupid—Fahrenheit 451 wasn’t about censorship, but T.V. taking over our lives.
Thanks Ray, that makes your book so much better now.
‘My War’ Wins Blooker Prize
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.
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Conan O’Brien parody of ‘Studio 60′
April 18th, 2007 — T.V., Video
White Possum Scream
March 31st, 2007 — T.V., The A/V, Video
While it’s a sketch that ran in the last half hour of SNL, there’s still something amusing about it.
Well, maybe because I loved Black Snake Moan and was just glad somebody else paid it some attention.
Chris Rock on the 2008 Presidential Race
March 21st, 2007 — Shoot the Messenger, Video
The acid tongue vs. the fists of fury
February 17th, 2007 — T.V., The A/V, Video
As one of the three people who reluctantly admit to liking Way of the Gun,its shortcomings and all I got excited when I heard about this exchange between Jimmy Kimmel and a sheepish Ryan Phillippe. It appears Phillippe has been dodging Kimmel after a little onset incident involving himself and Sarah Silverman.
Here is the extended version of the one of the most memorable opening scenes in any movie.
After suffering through an episode of Silverman’s new series on Comedy Central, maybe it’s more appropriate to blame this accidental blow to the head as cause for it’s unwatchableness. Phillippe made her incapable of living up to her comedic potential.
