Wait. Wesley's back? And in a big budget crime movie? How could that not be good, right? I mean, I've been waiting since Blade 2 which has been, what ten years. This whole week, I've been ...
Read more »The Crazies works and it works really well. Part of the reason is the intense pressure subjected to a simple mid-western town and its residents (for a clue to the tone, check the opening song, "Hello ...
Read more »So apparently young people are more and more skipping regular relationships of the boyfriend/girlfriend ilk, the going-steady thing, and just keeping it more casual. I'm under the assumption that I, ...
Read more »I'm excited about this summer's Kick-Ass which I think is the first big movie to explore the superhero-in-the-real-world theme. Starring are not only McLovin and Nic Cage, but some girl who plays a 12 ...
Read more »Gladwell writes on drinking in the new New Yorker. Basically, the guy says that the way we act when we drink is primarily determined socially. Not everyone gets rowdy like us young men on a Friday ...
Read more »What do you get for 3.99 (or whatever it costs) when you buy People: glossy candids of baseball-capped and flannelled celebrities arm-in-arm. Hardly any variance in theme. What keeps people coming ...
Read more »... Paul Rudd. I sort of knew it in my heart. Mostly from the types of roles he takes, guys who are both healthily hard (NH) and healthily soft. Check out David from the 40-Year-Old-Virgin who's ...
Read more »In one of the first scenes in The Book of Eli, Eli (Denzel) sits back in an abandoned house, throws on his iPod headphones, and presses play. The song: "How Do You Mend a Broken Heart" by Al Green ...
Read more »Me, Colin, and Diego chose Edge of Darkness over The Book of Eli. Colin, I think, wanted something pretty breezy that might provide some action laughs, Swayze versus Ben Gazzara style. I personally ...
Read more »The dude was popular for awhile because he blogged from the New York Knick bench. It was good stuff, regular-guy among million-dollar athletes. Obviously he's a smart guy. He blogged (not on ESPN.com) ...
Read more »"And there is some pretty sick porn out there with overt violence against women. Even the mainstream stuff has a very male-dominants-a female object vibe. But I don't know if that necessarily translates into misogynistic attitudes. I watch violence on TV ..."
Aman"I am definitely not a fan of exclusion either. I think the Internet has sped up the sharing of culture and language (slang) so much that it's only natural that other people would get genuinely interested in facets of black culture. Granted you always run ..."
Aman"I will say one thing I love about her (besides her acting): she's one of the few actors in Hollywood I actually want to hang out with. Just watched her on Kimmel and she's hilarious. Fun, funny, self-deprecating, doesn't take herself seriously, prone to ..."
Colin"I'm skeptical of the stat saying rape has declined. I know it's referring to incidences of rape, but a stat I read from Stats Canada said one-third of rape victims don't report the crime. So how do you really measure such a thing? I'm also not buying ..."
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"i doubt there's a causal relationship between porn and rape... but i think a society that tolerates more liberal attitudes towards sex (and porn) would be much less stifling, and likely to create an environment that will create people to act in a ..."
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