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Anthony Albanese, the transport minister of Australia’s leading Labor Party, recently went on the offensive in a speech targeted at the country’s opposition party leader Tony Abbott, and for inspiration, looked to the B movie The American President written by our beloved cinematic fabulist Aaron Sorkin and starring Michael Douglas. By which we mean, he [...]
Can the Wasilla Grifter possibly get another five minutes added to her expired fifteen minutes of infamy? Well, yes, of course. Besides, her fifteen minutes actually turned out to be three-and-a-half years, which is pretty substantial for an aging snowbilly grandma whose one and only talent was being less physically repulsive than John McCain, back [...]
Twelve days after opening “Atlas Shrugged: Part 1,” the producer of the Ayn Rand adaptation said Tuesday that he is reconsidering his plans to make Parts 2 and 3 because of scathing reviews and flagging box office returns for the film. “Critics, you won,” said John Aglialoro, the businessman who spent 18 years and more [...]
Allen West compared American politics to the movie 300 last week, because that’s of course the best analogy for anything, especially if you’re face down on the beer-soaked floor of a frat house or something like that. Why is it that this huge country runs a budget deficit? Women. Stupid women are always like, “Don’t [...]
Atlas Shrugged: Part I has once again been eclipsed at the box office by the epic socialist propaganda romance Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, coming in at 18th and 17th, respectively. What’s worse: The movie hauled $879,000 over the weekend; more importantly, it only made an average of $1,890 per screen. The first [...]
Despite all the libertarians in the nation selflessly relinquishing their Ron Paul gold for evil paper money so they could buy a movie ticket, Atlas Shrugged: Part I only made $1.7 million in its opening weekend, coming in at fourteenth place, right behind statist epic Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules. For a [...]
Yeah, that guy’s dead. [Twitter]
If you’ve managed to stay interested in the whole long, sordid tale of John Edwards, with the cancer and the lies and the infidelity and the new-agers and the bastard children and the aides with creepy hero-worship complexes and the anilingus sex tapes, then you’re probably thinking, “Boy howdy, someone should make this into a [...]
We found a film festival in DC that has nothing to do with a “screen” or a “green” and that focuses on our nation’s current emotional obsession: angst! Nordic angst to be exact. And why wouldn’t you want to see films from Scandinavia that explore this most overdone of topics, especially when they involve Danes [...]
Hollywood Film Magician James Cameron will now stop the oil spill, so everyone stop whining and shut the fuck up. No but really, check out this AP lede: “‘Top kill’ didn’t stop the Gulf oil spill. How about something ‘titanic’?” Ha ha, for that was a film that James Cameron directed, “The Titanic,” about some [...]
CLOSER? That was just Clive Owen showing his vagina to Julia Roberts for like two hours. [NYT]
