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The trailer is up for Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg. Obviously one of the films I'm most excited to see this year. The trailer is playing up Maddin's own tendency for tongue-in-cheek Freudian melodrama (with his mother being played former B-movie starlet Ann Savage, who was the femme fatale in the ultra-low-budget 1946 film noir Detour), but I'm more ( Read more... )

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I was reminded of Troll 2 when I saw the Stephen King anthology Cat's Eye a couple of days ago on TV. While the first two stories are adaptations of blackly comic crime stories from King's Night Shift collection. I missed the first one "Quitters Inc.", featuring James Woods who finds out the hard way that the new anti-smoking program he joined ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm sure you've all been to I Can Has Cheezburger. However there's a recent few I really REALLY liked. Liked enough to at least repost here. Think of this as my personal quality control,  OK?


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For those of you not inclined towards the last entry, I give you this: Simply one of the best movie trailers I've ever seen, the trailer for John Boorman's sequel to William Friedkin's The Exorcist.  I have yet to see the film, but know it is notorious as being considered one of the biggest box office bombs with much unintentional humour due to ( Read more... )

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Some Context From Wikipedia:

In 1993, [Fred] Ottman would find himself the victim of one of the most embarrassing moments in wrestling history. WCW had recently signed Ottman from the WWF, and he was to make his debut in a match alongside Sting, Dustin Rhodes, and Davey Boy Smith. He would be their mystery partner in the upcoming eight-man tag match ( Read more... )

Just finished reading Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson for the 33 3rd series of books where writers discuss their favourite albums, though here Canadian music critic for the Globe and Mail Carl Wilson does something different and more fascinating. He takes a look at the eternally loathed singer Celine Dion, and ( Read more... )

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For a while nothing started off my Saturday mornings like catching up on all the Law & Order:SVU I missed over the years due to not having anything resembling broadcast TV in my home (then I caught up enough to start seeing the sucky episodes, so I just started sleeping in). It was there that I discovered Tony, spokesman for Craftmatic beds. Maybe ( Read more... )