The Morning Dump: What’s wrong with SATC2, Batman Forever friends, Defining Canadian comedy
Posted by Anupa in Morning Dump on 19. Jun, 2010 | 0 Comments
If you know me well, you know that I think we’re headed for a cultural apocalypse–you know, total breakdown of society based on the values that have been propagated via shitty music, television, books. Anyway, this write-up of Sex and the City 2 (by a dude, no less) for the AMAZING AWESOME FEMINISTY-KINDA BLOG Tiger [...]
Morning Dump: Box office brevity, cage raging, is journalism dead yada yada, Doubting Dora
Posted by theashcan in Morning Dump on 22. May, 2010 | 0 Comments
This is just a short news story, but Brooks Barnes of the New York Times just wrote a too-true piece about how movie titles are all stupidly long these days. I think most of us would concur with Mr. Barnes. For example, do you know how inefficient it is for me to type a colon [...]
Prince of Persia? More like Prince of You Are Way Fucking Off
Posted by Anupa in Film, Pop Culture, Race on 02. Mar, 2010 | 2 Comments
No matter how close I shuffled to the edge, I was no match for those spikes Growing up, my cousin was like an older brother to me. He put me on a skateboard when I was five, I fell off and skinned my knee. He smashed my Hungry, Hungry Hippos game for fun, I cried. [...]
Review: "Inglourious Basterds"
Posted by Jef in Film, Pop Culture on 27. Aug, 2009 | 2 Comments
Quentin Tarantino is an unlikely choice to direct a Nazi film only insofar as we’ve come to view Nazi films. Rest assured, Inglourious Basterds ain’t Oscar bait, but that doesn’t mean the revisionist Hitler death fantasy isn’t Tarantino’s most relevant work to date. Despite Basterds’s flagrant hipness, the cues of WWII and WWII movies positions [...]
