Movie List, Oct 2009
Oct 2009 Recommended Movies Food, Inc. (2008) Mamma Mia! (2008) Mary and Max (2009) Up (2009) Whatever Works (2009) The Ugly Truth (2009) breaks no limits on repetition.  It’s another scalding encounter with Katherine Heigl, which makes it only a matter of time before people brand her another fetching actress who never appears in anything more resounding than nails scratching on a chalkboard. The Echo (2008) is the convoluted, extra-clichéd schizophrenic twin sister of Yam Laranas’s original scare machine, Sigaw (2004).  Did you really expect that Jesse Bradford would render

Movie Review: Whatever Works (2009)
Right from the beginning of a Woody Allen comedy, as the opening credits roll and the old marching band plays, you know you’re in for a treat.  This is a weathered filmmaker with 21 Academy Award nominations under his belt, three of them being wins.  This year, he picks a guy who probably best resembles him at his current age and disposition in life, and a girl who probably best represents the age and maturity of women that strike his fancy.  This movie, we can expect, depicts in comedic light, the circumstances by which a guy like today’s Woody and a girl like today’s Woody’s type end up together in an interesting love affair or friendship or stalke

Entertaining Moments in Award Shows 2009
Some of the funniest and most entertaining moments of this year’s major awards shows.  Enjoy. Lifetime Achievement Award for Sesame Street 36th Daytime Emmy Awards August 30, 2009 118 Emmy Awards! Ricky Gervais presents the award for Best Variety, Music or Comedy Series 61st

Movie Review: Mamma Mia! (2008)
In this movie, there are three fathers, a horde of back-up dancers, a wedding and a half, and a heavenly overdose of Abba. This is one of those movies where production managed to get the trifecta of movie essentials (acting, music/sound, cinematography) down pat.  This is the stuff real romantic comedies are made of. To say that acting is good would be an understatement.  On the female side, you got Meryl Streep in the middle, singing and dancing her 17-year old heart out (she forms a third of a cougar’s Dancing Queen number).  She is one part of a gigantic singing ensemble, but this movie is all her.  She stole the limelight with her surprising singing and da

Movie List, Sep 2009
Sep 2009 Recommended Movies Deja Vu (2006) District 9 (2009) Paris, je t’aime (2006) Phoebe in Wonderland (2007) The Brothers Bloom (2008) The September Issue (2009) True Romance (1993) Sasha Baron Cohen did it again in Bruno (2009).  And by “did it again” I meant “botched together another shitly plotted sump of crudely offensive practical jokes and called it a movie”. L’appartement