Category: Movies/TV

  • Sundance to Air Hiroshima and Nagasaki News Reels

    US military crews and Japanese newsreel teams shot color and black & white footage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bombs were dropped. The newsreel footage was suppressed for 25 years; the US military footage was hidden until the early 1980s, and has never been fully aired. Some of the newsreel footage "might have […]

  • Swan Season Three Cancelled

    This is bad news. FOX didn’t pick up The Swan for a third season. I only hope the girls weren’t halfway through their transformations… Never again will I cheer in glee at the dentist announcing: FULL! MOUTH! RECONSTRUCTION! 

  • Chris Corres (from So You Think You Can Dance?)

    After much pleading – Rickey posted pics and video of Chicago’s Chris Corres’s dancing on SYTYCD Smooth, handsome moves.

  • Entertainment Industry Fears DVD Fatigue

    And fatigue usually means We’ve sold so much mediocre shit that consumers are starting to figure it out… Consumer purchases of DVDs were slowing down caused Wall Street analysts to cut their earnings forecasts for stocks offered by the corporations that own the major movie studios. I refuse to hold any pity for Hollywood.

  • South American Countries Form Channel – US Promises to Counter-cast

    The Venezuelan government officially launched Telesur – a new Latin American satellite TV station. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said the station will give South America a voice independent of traditional media conglomerates like CNN… The station is being launched with help from other Latin American governments including Argentina, Cuba and Uruguay. Last week the […]

  • Natural Born Same-Sex Lovers

    I was just imagining a serial killer couple movie like NBK but with a gay couple. Maybe they only kill fundamentalist Christians or they bomb bigots. Maybe a fundie priest shot their surrogate mother for their child.

  • Somebody Call the Wahmbulance for the Movie Industry

    I have about as much faith in the movie industry to revitalize itself as I do in the new Greyhound commercials about how they’ve changed everything (except for their actual passengers). Toby Emmerich – head of production at New Line – went to see a movie among the groundlings – actually in the theatre: I […]

  • So You Think You Can Dance, Pilot Premiere

    Ron and I were delighted with schaudenfreude to watch the first episode of this dance competition show. Thankfully most blonde white girls that looked like Britney Spears made it through. I really start to worry when the Aryan nation isn’t well represented. Why does everyone act surprised when fat people can dance? Being a big […]

  • Oliver Stone, Nicholas Cage Prep Paramount's 9/11 Movie

    I feel someone had to tell the story of the people who were in the Trade Center before and after it collapsed. It needs to be told how this horrific tragedy brought Americans and the world together to help those in need. Yeah. Because these stories haven’t been told consistently in (more powerful, more personal, […]

  • Natalee Holloway vs. the Downing Street Memo vs. Michael Jackson

    (from Huffington Post via MeFi) Mentions of three stories in major news outlets for May 1- June 20:   Downing Street Memo Natalee Holloway Michael Jackson ABC News 0 42 121 CBS News 0 70 235 NBC News 6 62 633 CNN 30 294 633 Fox News 10 148 286 MSNBC 10 30 106