One of the things I dislike about the end of the year are the endless retrospectives of the year gone by and the innumerable lists of the year’s best and worst. I skip over almost all of them. [Read more…]
The Onion’s head film critic Peter K. Rosenthal reviews It’s a Wonderful Life. He is just like me. I too hate it when people in films do something mind-bogglingly stupid just in order to drive the story along. (Language advisory) [Read more…]
Barrett Foa as Mitt Romney sings his version of the song I Believe from the show The Book of Mormon. (This performance is from October 29, 2012, just before the last presidential election.) [Read more…]
The “holiday for the rest of us”. [Read more…]
Stephen Colbert takes a look at what the NSA is up to in the virtual worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, while the FBI spies on people through their computer webcams. It is easy to see how the people doing this might have started out justifying it as a way of fighting terrorism but that it acquired a life of its own and became an addiction. Like World of Warcraft and Second Life, in fact. [Read more…]
Stephen Colbert has some thoughts on the season and how Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly and John Stossel view the spirit of giving. [Read more…]
Hugh Laurie (as William Shakespeare) and Rowan Atkinson (as his theater manager) debate about what to do about the length of Shakespeare’s new hit play Hamlet. [Read more…]
There are some film characters who are so indelibly linked to the actors who created them that it is almost impossible for someone else to take it over. One case is Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau in the long running Pink Panther franchise that consisted of eleven films. Sellers acted in five of them that were the most successful. Other efforts, even with extremely good actors like Alan Arkin, Roger Moore, and Steve Martin fared abysmally. [Read more…]
… as measured by its repetition on local news channels. Conan O’Brien has the scoop. [Read more…]
Remember when you were a child and were having a silly fight with your siblings or friends and the best part was when the other person became so sensitive to the smallest slight that all that it took to get them riled up about something was to make the slightest gesture (like a look) without even having to actually do anything substantial? [Read more…]