Archive for October, 2008
2008 Elections President, Barack Obama, Barrack Obama, john mccain, Obama
In Barrack Obama, john mccain, politics on October 30, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Barrack Obama Should Spill a Little Red Ink to Turn a Few More Red States Blue
With less than a week to go before Election Day, both sides are worried.
Republicans, while still holding out hope for a “McCain Miracle,” are increasingly worried that McCain is losing in a way that, as David Frum put it, “threatens to take the entire Republican Party down with him.”
Democrats, while being careful not to count their electoral chickens before they’re hatched, are privately worried about winning without enough of a majority in the Senate to really change things.
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Barrack Obama Should Spill a Little Red Ink to Turn a Few More Red States Blue
Happy Go Lucky Movie, Happy Go Lucky Movie review, Mike Leigh Film Movie
In Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, Movies on October 25, 2008 at 12:03 am
This is accomplished director Mike Leigh most buoyantly comic feature, and it is a marvelous showcase for Sally Hawkins, who stars as the perpetually cheery Poppy, a grade school teacher in North London. Happy-Go-Lucky is an ode to the power of irrational exuberance, and Leigh keeps the narrative machinery to a minimum. Everything is a bit neat, but a lot of Leighs work tends toward a heightened theatrical neatness. When it works, the result is a slice of life that, in terms of honest cinematic storytelling, is more like a slice of cake.
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Mike Leigh’s new film “Happy-Go-Lucky” is a real pleasure, and besides being Leigh’s most buoyantly comic feature it’s a marvelous showcase for Sally Hawkins, who has worked twice before with the British writer-director
Colin Farrell, Edward Norton, Pride and Glory Movie, Pride and Glory Movie Review, Pride and Glory Movie Trailer
In Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, Movies on October 24, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Edward Norton, Colin Farrell and Jon Voight star in this dirty-cops thriller involving conflicted family loyalties and lots of drug money. The film is full of interesting little grace notes, and the cast is excellent, yet it grows more and more frustrating. The plot is too familiar, too reliant on coincidence and expediency.
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Colin Farrell & Edward Norton in Pride and Glory Movie
High School Musical 3, High School Musical 3 Movie Review, High School Musical 3 Movie Trailer
In Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, Movies on October 24, 2008 at 11:49 pm
High School Musical 3: Senior Year may be shallow, but what it lacks in narrative ambition, it makes up for in dazzling choreography that is certain to leave its target audience transfixed. Consider it is harmlessly fluffy fun.
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year Movie Review
Angelina Jolie, Changeling Movie, Changeling Movie Review, Changeling Movie Trailer, John Malkovich
In Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, Movies on October 24, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Based on infamous Southern California Wineville chicken coop murders of the 1920s, this film, a combination of serial-killer saga and triumph of the human spirit, is a solid addition to Clint Eastwood directorial career. Eastwood tells a painful true story neatly and well, with one foot in rousing Hollywood melodrama and the other in a story that resists tidy resolution. Angelina Jolie shines as the mother of a missing boy, crusading against the law-enforcement officials who shut her away in hopes of shutting her up. R (some violent and disturbing content and language). 2:21. 3 stars.
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Changeling Movie Review & Movie Trailer Starring Angelina Jolie & John Malkovich
Drew Brees, LaDainian Tomlinson, New Orleans Saints, NFL Football 2008, NFL Football in London England, San Diego Chargers
In NFL Football on October 24, 2008 at 10:07 pm
THE NFL LANDS IN LONDON!
There are a lot of big games in the NFL this week:
Colts-Titans in Nashville . . . Buccaneers-Cowboys in Dallas . . . Giants-Steelers in Pittsburgh . . .
Chargers-Saints in London. London?
Yes, that London – the capital of the United Kingdom.
The NFL this Sunday at 1:00 PM ET returns to hallowed 83,000-seat Wembley Stadium in London, England
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NFL Goes International! Chargers & Saints Clash in London (NFL 2008 Week 
Robert DeNiro, What Just Happened Movie, What Just Happened Movie Review, What Just Happened Movie trailer
In Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, Movies on October 19, 2008 at 12:53 am
If relaxation were an automatic cinematic virtue, we’d have the comedy of the year in director Barry Levinson’s “What Just Happened.” Small, mild, easy to watch and easier to forget, this adaptation of producer Art Linson’s Hollywood memoirs has the virtue of breeziness. Yet you leave wanting more, and funnier.
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Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, Sex Drive Movie, Sex Drive Movie review, Sex Drive Movie Trailer
In Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, Movies on October 19, 2008 at 12:49 am
Sean Anders’ derivative gross-out movie “Sex Drive” is easier to take if you accept that the answer to every baffling plot question is “because it’s a teen sex comedy.”
For instance, why is nice-guy protagonist Ian (Josh Zuckerman) still a virgin at 18, even though he’s reasonably clean, social and movie-star cute?
Because he’s in a teen sex comedy.
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Sex Drive Movie Review Starring Josh Zuckerman & Clark Duke – Movie Review & Movie trailer
Oliver Stone Movie Review, President George W. Bush, W., W. Movie Trailer
In Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, Movies on October 19, 2008 at 12:06 am
The Shakespearean element in “W.,” I suppose, is the notion that the wastrel son of George Herbert Walker Bush started out his life much like the future Prince Hal of “Henry IV,” and the world — Yale, Texas, the National Guard, the drinking, the business mishaps, the political rise — was W’s Falstaff, a genially corrupting influence.
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W. Oliver Stone’s Movie about George Bush Movie Review & Movie Trailer
Max Payne, Max Payne Movie, Max Payne Movie Trailer, Movie Reviews
In Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, Movies on October 18, 2008 at 11:59 pm
If an action film strains to impress an audience, over and over, with slow-motion first-person kill shots, I am not likely to be impressed. But even the target demographic for “Max Payne,” the ones who spent untold hours working their way through the game, may well resist director John Moore’s film.
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Max Payne Movie Review & Max Payne Movie Trailer Starring Mark Wahlberg
In Uncategorized on October 15, 2008 at 1:45 pm
“In the NFL,” says New Orleans Saints head coach SEAN PAYTON, “it
’s either carnival or crisis.” And that status is in constant flux. Just look at last week. The winning points of 4 games were scored in the final 10 seconds of regulation – the most such games in a week since 1970. Meanwhile, the Tennessee Titans are the NFL’s lone undefeated team
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In Uncategorized on October 10, 2008 at 3:54 pm
There’s a lot working against “City of Ember” in terms of its commercial prospects. Among the question marks: an indistinct title, taken from a popular-but-not-epoch-shattering series of books; an apocalyptic vision of the future that resists the usual swells of triumphalism; and dialogue that is markedly free of jaded wisecracks and references to “Jerry Maguire,” or “Cops.”
Also, it’s good. So it has quality working against it too.
It’s a little fuzzy in terms of story, and too dour for young kids, but “City of Ember” comes from director Gil Kenan.
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In Uncategorized on October 10, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Jonathan Demme’s most bracing narrative feature since “The Silence of the Lambs” combines a wedding with a tense family reunion, starring Anne Hathaway as a recovering addict returning home for her sister’s nuptials. A triumph of ambience, this is the 1st Demme film since the 1980s that feels like a party — bittersweet, but a party nonetheless
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In Uncategorized on October 10, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Ridley Scott directs this slick, busy international thriller that stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the CIA’s top man in Jordan, on the hunt of an Osama bin Laden-style terrorist. Russell Crowe gets most of screenwriter William “The Departed” Monahan’s best lines as the spymaster back home.
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In Uncategorized on October 10, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Despite Davis’ overwhelming widely reported real-life niceness, the man is well worth a full-length story, simply because of what he achieved (first African-American Heisman Trophy winner) and when he achieved it (in the early years of the civil rights revolution). Born in 1939 and laid low by leukemia in 1963, at age 23, Davis never got the chance to play pro ball. Yet he accomplished a great deal in the time he had, mentored first by pre-legendary Jim Brown, his predecessor at Syracuse University, then by coach Schwartzwalder, played by Quaid.
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In Uncategorized on October 8, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Two spotless streaks. One unbreakable — at least for this week. That
’s the story for the NFL’s last two unbeaten teams – the 5-0 Tennessee Titans and 4-0 New York Giants. The Titans have a bye this week. The Giants conclude the week on MNF aiming to become the 7th defending Super Bowl champion to open the season with a 5-0 record
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In Uncategorized on October 8, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Cuisines are as flexible as borders. I grew up eating many foods folks identify as Italian, even though I thought of them as our own family’s home cooking. That’s especially true of noodle dishes my grandma & mother made for our family. One of our favorites was my grandma’s ravioli, which looked distinctively Italian, but with an Austrian Style
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In Uncategorized on October 3, 2008 at 6:26 pm
On the eve of the highly anticipated Vice-Presidential debate, a Women@NBCU Political Attitudes Survey revealed that women are more comfortable with Joe Biden serving as President than Sarah Palin, should something happen to the commander in chief.
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In Uncategorized on October 3, 2008 at 5:19 pm
A rom-com reorganizing of Toby Young’s satiric memoir of a brief celebrity journalism career at Vanity Fair. This putrid showbiz comedy largely wastes the talents of cast members Simon Pegg, Jeff Bridges and Kirsten Dunst. R (language, some graphic nudity and brief drug material). 1:49.
The cast stars Simon Pegg, Megan Fox, Jeff Bridges, Kirsten Dunst, Danny Huston
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In Uncategorized on October 3, 2008 at 4:51 pm
BLINDNESS. A disparate group of citizens in a large city are afflicted by sudden sightlessness, and the world around them becomes chaos. The government confines the afflicted to an asylum, and much of this film concerns the battle between Ward One, run like a caring commune by a doctor (Mark Ruffalo) and his take-charge wife (Julianne Moore), and the louts running Ward Three, headed by a bartender (Gael Garcia Bernal) and an accountant (Maury Chaykin). Jose Saramago’s good, challenging book doesn’t quite make the jump to the big screen. R (violence including sexual assaults, language and sexuality/nudity). 2:01. 2 stars.
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In Uncategorized on October 3, 2008 at 4:44 pm
APPALOOSA.
This leisurely, off-and-on buddy Western, set in the New Mexico territory in 1882, stars Ed Harris (who also co-wrote the screenplay and directed) as a gunslinger who goes up against a ruthless rancher (Jeremy Irons). This film could have used a real sense of danger to go along with all the neat, tidy, highfalutin’ honor and decency. R (some violence and language). 1:54. 2-1.2 stars.
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In Uncategorized on October 3, 2008 at 4:37 pm
It depends on what sort of teenager you were (or are), and what kind of city you dreamed of conquering at that age.
But “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” taking place all over New York City during one offhandedly eventful night, is a modest charmer — the sort of date movie I would’ve liked when I was 16 or 17, if only because the beanpole-geek-so-uncool-he’s-cool protagonist, played by the deceptively skillful Michael Cera, secures for himself a dream of a romantic partner, played by the equally disarming Kat Dennings.
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In Uncategorized on October 1, 2008 at 3:21 pm
It all adds up to one thing: A lot is happening in the NFL this week. The Buffalo Bills (4-0 for first time in 16 years) & Tennessee Titans (4-0 for first time in their history) go for 5-0 records. Another team, the Super Bowl champ Giants who were quiet in their bye week while BRETT FAVRE tossed 6 TD passes, look to up their record to 4-0 for the first time since 1990.
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In Uncategorized on October 1, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Ronald Reagan, in his first inaugural address, famously declared that “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” 27 years later, in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and 7-plus years into the Bush & Cheney reign, The candidates view on government’s role should be a key theme.
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Arianna Huffington Commentary, Eric Schmidt Google CEO on Politics, Internet impact on Politics, john mccain, Rovian Poltics, Youtube Politics
John McCain, The Internet & The Death of Rovian Politics
In Barrack Obama, john mccain, politics on October 23, 2008 at 12:08 am“We are witnessing the end of Rovian politics,” Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google told me. And YouTube, which Google bought in 2006 for $1.65 billion, is one of the causes of its demise.
Thanks to YouTube — and blogging and instant fact-checking and viral e-mails — it is getting harder and harder to get away with repeating brazen lies without paying a price, or to run under-the-radar smear campaigns without being exposed.
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The Internet & The Death of Rovian Politics