Behind the Hype (Free subscription) | yesterday
“On the fourth Thursday in November, 84 million American families will gather together…and wonder why.” So goes the tag line for oft forgotten Thanksgiving film, Home For The Holidays. The year is 1995, a time when children in their twenties still traveled the country to get to their parents’ house for Thanksgiving, as opposed to [...]
Forbes (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
When it comes to cable programming, women are taking control of both sides of the screen.
Popdose (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Kelly Stitzel concludes her tribute to dysfunctional Hollywood Thanksgivings with her personal holiday favorite, Home for the Holidays .
electrichalibut.co.uk (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A bit shout out to my main man Jann for directing to me to the A.V. Club's film flops hall of fame in response to my post referencing Nicolas Cage's performance in the remake of The Wicker Man . Yeah. Props. Respect. Recognize . Anyway, sure enough The Wicker Man does find a spot on the list, along with another Cage film, Zandalee , which looks as if it features a Cage performance so hammy you could...
My Simple Reviews (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American film, television, and theater actress most known for the television series My So-Called Life and the films Romeo + Juliet, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and Stardust. Danes is perhaps most famous for bringing Angela Chase to life in the 1994...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A Jewish physicist starts fraying at the seams in this, the latest comedy-drama from Joel and Ethan Coen. Read our review Rating:4.5
Reel Good Recipes (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
2 sticks butter, softened 3/4 cup brown sugar 3/4 cup granulated sugar 3 eggs, beaten, room temperature 3/4 cup sweet potatoes, well mashed 2 cups flour 1/2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 cup buttermilk 2 tsp pure vanilla extract Glaze: 1 cup powdered sugar 4 tsp milk 1/2 tsp vanilla extract Walnuts for garnish (optional) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 10"...
Schott's Vocab (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
This weekend, co-vocabularists have eagerly conjoined unlikely composite individuals, with diverting and droll results. For example: "George W. Bush League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
One of the five plays in the new anthology of Tony Kushner's short works, "Tiny Kushner," now playing at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, is called "Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy" and is clearly the star of the show. Not that it's the only...
A Good Choice . . . for Ohio et al. (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
I came across this interesting made-for-TV movie while browsing the shelves of a local library. The movie features a group of blacks, who had grown old in an environment of racial animus. This is a story portraying a group of downtrodden formerly meek and mild bunch of going-with-the-flow people who went along to get along. The movie took place in the deep South in the 1940s or 1950s. The gist of the...
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Hilary Swank's latest film, Amelia, is currently taking quite a critical drubbing, bad news for the film, and, as Ann Hornaday explores in today's Washington Post, for the increasingly small pool of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
And Still I Persist (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
From Ace of Spades comes this clip (above) of MS-NBC making a real-time “correction” based on an e-mail from the White House. Upon watching it, my immediate thought was of the scene in “Broadcast News” where Albert Brooks (the brainy but uncharismatic journalist) is feeding background information for a breaking crisis to William Hurt (the handsome [...]
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Pink taxis for women are popping up in countries all over the world (India, Lebanon, and, according to an AP story this week, Mexico ). The purpose behind some of them is to provide an alternative for women who don't want to be "leered at" by cab drivers. Our first thought was "Thank God we don't have to worry about that here," but, actually, in a city in which the vast majority...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
SOMEWHERE, Jane Austen is aghast. Queen Victoria is about to blow a gasket. And your sweet little great-grandmother, the one apt to blush when the word "corset" came up in mixed company, is positively apoplectic.
Travel (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
By Brad Taylor We have reviews of some movies listed below. To find movie downloads do a search. "Online DVD Rentals" or "Movie To Download" might get you a good result, if they don't, try "Top DVD Rentals". Number 17: Amusing comedy-thriller has tramp Lion coming across a treasure robber's hideout. Arousing chase scene engages a train and bus. Screenplay by Hitchcock.T,...
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