Tag Archives: movies

Madonna won best original song. Here’s the list.

The post below this one reminds me that I’m now allowed (I think) to mention that about a month ago I attended an advance screening of The Iron Lady. Despite my long-running morbid fascination with the Thatcher regime, I found the film surprisingly dull. Far too much time is devoted to Thatcher’s battle with Alzheimer’s as she hallucinates conversations and …

Amazing considering that most captive chimps only live to be about 35-45. More here. Cheetah the chimpanzee, who acted in classic Tarzan movies in the early 1930s, died of kidney failure Saturday at Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor, a sanctuary spokeswoman said. Cheetah was roughly 80 years old, loved fingerpainting and football and was soothed by nondenominational Christian music, …

This year’s Golden Globe nominations were announced in Los Angeles early this morning. The silent-era tale “The Artist” heads the Golden Globes with six nominations, among them best comedy or musical, and acting honors for its French stars, Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo. Tied for second-place with five nominations Thursday are the 1960s tale “The Help” and George Clooney’s “The …

Mike Myers is turning the Austin Powers franchise into a Broadway musical. At this stage it is thought that he will not actually star in the musical, but is simply developing it with The Book Of Mormon co-director Casey Nicholaw. The musical will tell the tale of how the buck-toothed spy got his mojo, and will be set to the …

The 1977 original is still one of my favorites. This clip is from the New York Times’ latest installment in their annual Oscars project.

Roger Ebert just tweeted that San Francisco’s magnificent and legendary Castro Theater is changing its focus away from movies. Others on Twitter report that some of the employees have already been let go. (The theater’s online calendar still shows a full schedule through the end of December.) The blog that Ebert links to says that the venue will still host …

Judy Garland’s ruby slippers go up for auction later this month in California. The slippers are one of only four pairs remaining from the classic film. One pair is on display at the Smithsonian, another is already part of a private collection, and the third was actually stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minn. The shoes are …

I have a personal relationship with Bradley Cooper because I once saw him on the 6 train. So there.

Courtesy of the Karpel Group, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is the 50th anniversary Blu-ray reissue of the musical classic, West Side Story, which is available online and at music/video retailers beginning today. Five decades after its historic debut, a timeless classic returns to dazzle audiences young and old. Based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, the iconic …

For the ninth time.

The always culturally au courant Christian right has suddenly stumbled onto the fact that the X-Men series is one big honking allegory for gay rights. Viciously anti-gay wingnut Michael Brown opens today’s Townhall column with this: The X-Men movie series, based on the comic books of the same name, is well-known for its unusual cast of gifted mutants and for …