December 2009
52 posts
The Best Films of 2009!
So here you go, boys and girls, the best films I saw in 2009. Got a problem? Throw it in the comment sections and there’s a good chance it won’t be ignored… also, that I will respond with snark. Lots and lots of snark.
BEST FILMS (They progressively get more and more awesome)
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Taken
10 Word Review: An action-packed, fun flick that delivered just what it promised.
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Me: I feel like Winnie the Pooh, tapping my head, going *think think think*
Allison: I feel like that at least once a day.
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10 Journalists To Follow On Twitter (including... →
I have a Google Alert set up for my name, because I like to know how people are using and linking to my article (often times, weirdly). Today, I got a message saying someone had included me on “10 Journalists To Follow On Twitter” list. Well, that’s kind of neat. Even though it’s just one person’s opinion, I’m going with it. Ending 2009 with a win, baby!
The Worst Films of 2009!
So at the end of each year I like to take a moment, look back, and appreciate all the awesome and terrible films I have seen. Ahhhh, nostalgia.
Here it is - part one of my film-year-in-review:
WORST FILMS (They progressively get more and more terrible)
10.
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
10 Word Review: A cheesy 80’s adaptation that left me wanting the original.
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10 Word (or less) Review
Extract
Review: It’s like “Office Space,” if “Office Space” was terrible. (C-)
A Lookback of The Music
I am still very close with my group of high school friends. Actually, to be fair, I met them long before high school - Somewhere around first grade, actually, when we all went to different schools but came together each summer for Laughing Brook wilderness day camp. Yeah, it was the tops.
Anyway, about twice a year, I make them a CD of the best songs I’ve heard since, well, the last CD....
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No iPhone for You, New York!
Here’s a weird little story. Apparently, New Yorkers cannot buy an iPhone, although the reasons are not clear at the moment. Want to know why? No, I’m sorry, there’s not an app for that.
New Yorkers hoping to add an iPhone to their holiday stockings may have been left wondering where all the smart phones disappeared to. Consumerist reports that AT&T has quietly pulled iPhones...
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Dave Barry's year in review: 2009 →
The best part of the end of the year is Dave Barry’s sardonic look back at the last 12-months. 2009 was no exception. Click on the link above and start the snickering. Please do not read if you hate awesome things. Also, if that last part applies to you, what the hell are you doing on this blog? Get out of here, hater.
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All of AFI's Top 100 Films in One Year
FILM THIS: A Yearlong Movie Insanity Project
That’s right. I’m going a little insane
Starting on the first day of 2010, Allison and I are going to watch all of the AFI’s Top 100 Films, in order, in one year - two a week. This is in addition, of course, to the normal movies we’re going to watch anyway. Yeah, we are awesome, thanks for noticing.
Screenings happen most...
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Name That Decade.
The Washington Post had a story about the fact this last decade didn’t have a name, which leads me to suggest … perhaps The Washington Post should find better things to write about.
Remember the turn of the millennium 10 years ago, when people were excitedly debating what everyone would call the new decade? Well, the debate never ended. Now, The Washington Post notes, the decade is...
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Hooray Movies!
This holiday weekend was the best ever for movie box offices and the previous record was shattered. Of course, the story makes no mention that ticket prices are higher now than ever, so, take it was grain of salt on your popcorn … Sorry, that wasn’t funny.
The three-day holiday weekend, also the last weekend of the year, was a boon for Hollywood. Box offices raked in $263 million,...
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10 Word (or less) Review
Up in the Air
Review: As if flying wasn’t wonderfully depressing enough already. (A)
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A PICTORIAL GUIDE TO AVOIDING CAMERA LOSS →
Children’s book author Andrew McDonald came up with a sure-fire way to get a lost camera back … or at least amuse the jerk who stole it from you.
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WatchA little pre-Christmas treat for you all. This is an old SNL skit that Julian Casablancas, the lead singer of The Strokes, covered on his latest album (and then did here on Jimmy Fallon’s show).
A neat little fact: I interviewed Horatio Sanz years ago for my college newspaper (back when he was still a roly-poly guy). After the interview, I told him my brother Bryan loved this song. Horatio...
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Twitter About Cash
Woah, Twitter actually made money in 2009. Good for them. But now they’re going to include advertisments next year. Bad for them!
Twitter Inc., will finally have a profitable year, Bloomberg reports. In October, Twitter agreed to allow Google and Microsoft’s Bing to make its micro messages searchable for a reported $15 million and $10 million respectively. Until earlier this year,...
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Help Me Carrie Underwood, You're My Only Hope
Carrie Underwood is engaged! Why should you care? Really, you shouldn’t… except for the fact that she’s marrying hockey player Mike Fisher, meaning her name could be Carrie Fisher (Geek Squeal!!!)
Carrie Underwood is engaged to hockey beau Mike Fisher, the country-music star’s rep confirmed today. The wedding date hasn’t been set, but “the couple...
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Plane Rules
What’s this? Airlines can’t stick it to you anymore … or at least not as much? I don’t know, something feels wrong. In the words of Admiral Ackbar: “It’s a trap!”
Good news for travelers: Starting in 120 days, the maximum amount of time that an airline can legally keep you stranded on the tarmac will be three hours. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood...
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10 Word (or less) Review
Avatar
Review: It’s the best $10 3-D screensaver I’ve ever seen. (B)
Talking about 'Fast & Furious'
"It was terrible. They kill off that chick from LOST."
"Michelle Rodriguez"
"No, I'm pretty sure her name is Feisty Latina."
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“Nobody tells DJ Request what to play.”
– Craig Robinson, The Goods
Secret Film Project
No, you can’t know about it yet! That would be the worst secret ever. But it’s coming, and it’s going to involve you.
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Are you excited? This is the part where you should start to get excited.
-Alex
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The 10 Worst Tech Movies of All Time →
Ok, Johnny Mnemonic and Lawnmower Man I understand. But Independence Day? CNN, you cut me and all lovers of terrible actions flicks to the core. How dare you.
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The Art of Steve Keene
A few weeks ago, I literally stumbled onto the work of STEVE KEENE, an amazing artist from Brooklyn who does what he calls “SK Art.” I’ll let him explain:
(Steve) spent a few years as a DJ on a radio station where, surrounded by thousands of records, it was harder to find something he didn’t like than something he did. Steve says, “I want buying my paintings to be like...
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An Article on My Mom! →
My mom’s dream for forever was to go back to school and become a Nurse Practitioner (that’s the step up from a nurse, for those unaware). After years of dreaming, she went and did it! Huzzah! Now she has a new job in a new field and was profiled in my hometown newspaper that I used to write for. She’s so awesome. Yes, I’ll say it - I love my mom. Have a problem with that?
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10 Word (or less) Review
Julie and Julia
Review: It made me hungry for food, life and more Julia! (B+)
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Golden Nonsense
The Golden Globes nominations came out yesterday, and, as always, I’m annoyed. This is my annoyed face: *grrrrrrrrr*…
Up in the Air confirmed its place as a heavy awards-season favorite during Tuesday morning’s Golden Globe nominations announcement, garnering six honors, including a slot in the Best Picture - Drama category, but the big winners may have been Sandra Bullock and...
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The Next Eight Steps in Evolution
Well, leave it to the Austalians to doom us all…
Humanity’s tenuous position atop the evolutionary ladder has been threatened once again as the existence of a tool-using octopus has been confirmed by Australian scientists. Amphioctopus marginatus, the veined octopus, was filmed by Julian Finn and Mark Norman of Museum Victoria in Melbourne, as it picked out two halved coconut shells...
“This is like Christmas, my first BMX bike and meeting the cast of...”
– Henchman 21, The Venture Bros.
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The End of The Flight
Sad news. Sad face. Flight of the Conchords has offically been cancelled - not by HBO, but by Bret and Jemaine.
New Zealand comedy duo Flight of the Conchords have announced they will not make a new series of their TV show. The cult HBO sitcom, about two aspiring musicians in New York, was nominated for two Emmys last year.
Writing on their website, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement said:...
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 on HULU! →
I know this link won’t last very long (nothing ever does on Hulu), but you have no idea how excited I am that they put MST3k up - even if it’s only five episodes. You have to appreciate the little things people…and then mock the hell out of them.
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10 Word (or less) Film Review
Public Enemies
Review: I thought 1930s bank robberies were supposed to be exciting. (B-)
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Song of the day: “Don’t Stop...
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S&M Politician Wanted to Ban Gay Sex
I really love the above headline. It’s pretty much everything that’s wrong with everything.
They don’t write them much better than this: Rod Jetton, the former Missouri House Speaker who was charged on Monday with choking and beating his girlfriend after she failed to use the “safe word,” fired a state lawmaker from his committee chairmanship in 2007 after that man wanted to end a...
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10 Word (or less) Film Review
Terminator Salvation
Review: Quick, someone time travel to stop me from watching this. (C)
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Harry Potter Bares All
Um…isn’t this still, at heart, a children’s book? I mean, I know the last book was dark and intense, but naked? Really?
Cover your eyes, kids: Daniel Radcliffe will go nude in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, director David Yates told The Telegraph Monday. Harry’s naked image will appear when a monster uses magic to evoke jealously from best friend Ron Weasley by showing...
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Conservative or Just Plain Racist
Everyone is talking about Tiger Woods these days, and that obviously includes conservative radio hosts. Of course, most people aren’t being racist assholes, but hey, to each their own.
Just another day in conservative talk radio. Glenn Beck asked his listeners on Tuesday, “Do you believe Tiger Woods may actually be O.J. Simpson?” Not to be outdone, Rush Limbaugh said the “black frame of...
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WHY "BREAKING DAWN" MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE →
Now, I’ve never read Twilight, don’t plan on reading Twilight, if anyone tried to make me read Twilight I’d kick them in the shins. I did try to watch Twilight once, but turned it off halfway to go do something that was actually fun. That being said, if what this hilarious article above says is true, there must be a fourth Twilight movie made. Dear god in heaven, let it be so!...
BlackBerry Nonsense
I’m posting this from my phone. It is harder than it seems. Are you impressed? Please be impressed.
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Take Me To Your Leader
When aliens come to Earth, are you going to be ready? No you will not! But you know who will be? Denver. Yes, Denver, Colorado, a city that knows how to use it’s tax dollars.
When Denver residents go to the polls in 2010 they will be faced with a new referendum: whether or not to form an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission, dedicated to figuring out the best way to welcome aliens if they...
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Howard Stern is SAGging
The Screen Actor’s Guild has always seemed a little insane to me (I know, I know, it’s a group of actors - it really should come as no surprise). Now, this is not helping their case:
The Screen Actors Guild may want to reconsider the random selection of its nominating committee, because Howard Stern won a spot this year. The notoriously crude radio host told his listeners Thursday...
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Banking Issues
A new Washington Post story says that 1/4th of Americans don’t use banks. Holy cow, that’s just amazing to me. Of course, with today’s economy, perhaps there is something to this, “Stuffing All My Cash In My Sock Drawer” method.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported Wednesday that one-quarter of American households—approximately 60 million Americans—have...
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GMail's Free Holiday Postcard →
This is a neat idea. To spread some holiday cheer, GMail will send one free postcard to whoever you wish in the US while supplies last… So it is true - When you have Google, everyday is Christmas.