Grampa Munster (Al Lewis) died! Long live the glorious duo of Herman Munster & Grampa ( Read more... )

8000 baby pigs died in a huge fire on some farm in rural Minnesota last night! Poor little things!

Nothing like a massive evacuation of precious spluge to make me sleepy. Best thing, really.

Now I'll probably be up until late Sunday morning! Better DVR "The Simpsons" just in case.

I had a freaky detox dream.

I hope I can forget it soon!

Nuff said.

I'm 45. Jeebus! The less said about my birthday, the better. Let's just leave it at this: I went out to get some booze. Things got fuzzy. I woke up on a pool table in some St. Paul bar at 1:45 am on the 9th (how I got there, I do not know). Then, more mental fuzziness. Then, waking up on the floor of my apartment. Then, calling the bank and finding ( Read more... )

Ralph Fiennes plays a British diplomat in Africa trying to solve the mystery behind his left-wing wife's brutal murder. Rachel Weisz plays the muck-raking wife, a woman who asks way too many questions about a Big Drug Company's attempt to cover-up dead African test-subjects. A great movie that works both as a love story and a political thriller.

David Cronenberg's thriller about violence and identity stars Viggo Mortensen as a family man whose criminal past comes back to haunt him. Very cool flick: the opening sequence is chilling in its portrayal of casual, almost relaxed, viciousness. Also with Maria Bello and Ed Harris as a very nasty mobster. Grade=A-

So-so sequel that nonetheless delivers on horror and creepy gross-outs. Grade=B-

A fairly funny documentary about a bunch of comedians who tell their own twisted versions of a VERY dirty old joke. I won't give away the gist of the story, but let's just say it involves incest, bestiality and various scatological preoccupations (depending on the version told)!. Working 'blue' to the point of taboo, the best schtick in the flick ( Read more... )

Interesting, darkly-amusing, but ultimately uneven 'mean-girl' dramedy that features a terrific performance by Evan Rachel Wood; the one huge flaw: the flick gets WAY too serious at the finale! Grade=B+