uh, beards are in vogue now. so the hollywood fashion police require that every rock band have atleast 2 bearded members, and every new movie must have a major character with a beard.

if you want to hear LaLa just move to America. if you have a classy-sounding accent (English & Irish especially) you'll have no trouble landing a good job/ hot girlfriend/boyfriend. also driving is cheap, and you can legally buy and shoot guns (tho not while driving). and best of all you get to preview all the…

that was hilarious, Dumbledoore. diorama LOL. +5 internets for you

yeah, the PR people for The Final Destination got the idea from that accident DJ AM somehow survived last year. they knew he was a recovering addict, so a few days before the movie came out, they planted a ton of free drugs in his hotel room in the hopes that he would go to town on it and do too much and die, and they…

how about during the 3D love scene everyone's seat suddenly starts vibrating in a pleasant fashion.

that "driving on desolate 2-lane roads" cliche is there for a reason. it is MUCH easier to film on those kinds of roads than on your typical 6-lane interstate freeway crowded with semis and a constant stream of traffic doing 75. also the rural roads are more scenic, no chain restaurants and clusters of lookalike gas…

freaky. it is like Final Destination. maybe he should have died in that plane crash last year, and death has been chasing him ever since. all i can say is that Travis Barker dude better watch is back, or else he might find himself ensnared in some elaborate Rube Goldberg-ian death trap involving stage lighting rigs,…

i went to college at a SoCal school so quite a few of my teachers were previously in the entertainment biz, former aspiring actors and such. so yeah i had more than my share of semi-funny professors. but what mainly annoyed me was that the best looking male professors always got huge laughs from the female side of the…

my favorite too. i can never get enough of the daughter character and her sleazy boyfriend. their scenes are funny as hell. As a film i think it has aged very well. the cars and the fashions are just old enough that they are cool again.

i'm a Paul Bartel fan too. of the few movies he made himself i think 'Eating Raoul' was his masterpiece. (thanks to that movie, i'll never again get in a hot tub at a swinger party).
Though he did some writing/directing later on, he actually spent most of his career as a character actor playing small parts in other…

i think it's a well-rounded snapshot of the indie/postpunk/new wave music scene in the US and England, circa summer '80. that was an interesting time in music for sure. as good as it is, i still wish they had had the forethought to capture more of the most pivotal /influential acts of that time: Bauhaus, Siouxsie &…

i will admit to being a Leno fan. i never really watched him on the Tonight Show (past my bedtime), but as an old-car geek i can't help but love his weekly (internet-only) show 'Jay Leno's Garage'.

i was kind of surprised to see Grounded For Life on ABC Family, airing in the daytime no less, with all the jiggly cleavage and drug references that show has. (unless they edited out the more adult moments, i haven't really checked).
never saw Middlemen but it looks like something i'd enjoy. anyone know if ABC Family…

woo hoo - early Charley Chase compilation!
as a fan of silent-era comedy , seeing this DVD in the list made me very excited. While i wouldn't say Chase's work was as consistently great as his contemporaries such as Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, his early comedy shorts are often very funny, and interesting in that…

bet you ANYTHING there will be a Lost spinoff or two within the next few years, or a feature film sequel/cash-in.

Boi Gringo, when you turn 80 you will change your tune. 80 is not that old anymore. my neighbor just turned 99 and i don't see him wishing he were dead.

there's a good review in there
"Irwin Winkler and 50 Cent are… hilarious…! Now… re-teamed for the… thriller Streets Of Blood… Steven Seagal… Arnold Schwarzenegger… Rainer Wolfcastle…augmented with gratuitous T&A, nonstop profanity, and… bloodshed! Sharon Stone wrestles… a… naked hooker!"
- Nathan Rabin, AVClub

when i was in Japan about 17 years ago i used to guzzle Fanta Green Apple like there was no tomorrow. i really wish they had that in America, though our sparkling cider is a fairly decent taste substitute i guess. i used to love Fanta Ume too. (tasted like carbonated plum wine). but i heard that one was discontinued…

drivin' around at 17…
cassette stereo cranked up in my first (barely roadworthy) car, getting my mind blown by whatever questionable music i was into back in the 80's (Love and Rockets, Cure, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Oingo Boingo, and tons of other cheesy new wavey stuff i've now long forgotten). Not Eurythmics'…

psss… a little secret from someone who used to work in a movie theater - they WANT you to stay all day, sneaking from movie to movie, because that means you will eventually get really hungry and spend your money at their highly profitable snack bar. of course they pay lip service to the movie studios and pretend…