Don't Call It A Comeback...
...just yet. But wethisclose.
Till then... we be tweetin', tumblrin' and up to all kinds of beheadin' foolishness.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Monday, November 16, 2009
Anticipation...
The best last minute $9.00 gift you'll spend on your mom this week. Or something.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Friday Night Lights Season 4 destroys the universe
(Via)
While last year's promos for Friday Night Lights' debut on DirecTV had a vaguely mysterious magical quality to them, the fourth season promotional push has a simpler, more understated, end-of-the-world-2012-directed-by-Roland-Emmerich feel to them, which is fine by us all the same.
As long as we know we'll have Coach Taylor and co. to keep our eyes clear and hearts full for two more seasons, no one loses (pun and done).
For more about the upcoming season, check out show creator Peter Berg's discussion about this season's new characters in Bill Simmons' 30 for 30 podcast here.
As long as we know we'll have Coach Taylor and co. to keep our eyes clear and hearts full for two more seasons, no one loses (pun and done).
For more about the upcoming season, check out show creator Peter Berg's discussion about this season's new characters in Bill Simmons' 30 for 30 podcast here.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Joe Swanberg mocks mumblecore with CGI nekkidness
It's lightweight at best, but it is fun to see Joe Swanberg have a sense of humor about mumblecore's penchant for 'real live nudity.' Read more...
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Tommy Wiseau is a Mindf*cker
(via)
This isn't particularly funny or good in any discernibly concrete or abstract sense, but for devotees of the Church of The Room, any Tommy Wiseau is good Tommy Wiseau. Even if it comes in a ridiculously blonde wigged, sci-fi semantic-ridden package.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Zach Galifianakis makes Charlize Theron sweat
Maybe not the funniest of the series, but seeing Galifianakis with pretty much anyone is still a sight to behold. Read more...
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Andy Griffith reminds us pimping ain't easy in Play the Game
After his charming turn in the sweet and surprisingly pleasing Waitress, everyone's favorite go-to-use of the phrase "living legend" Andy Griffith returns in Play the Game, a film that looks about as enjoyable as hearing your grandpa's story about the Vietcong for the thirtieth time over Sunday brunch but it's still sweet and nice to hear about violence and brutality over mimosas and eggs benedict because grandpa is adorable even though he doesn't remember your name anymore and keeps looking at you suspiciously and muttering "bastard" under his breath but it's all good because we all love grandpa.
Either way, it's nice to see the always charming Griffith still getting work along side Doris Roberts and Liz Sheridan (ageism be damned). And maybe you'll finally have something to do with grandpa or grammy other than sitting on the deck and lying about your so-called journalism career.
Editor's Note: We know it's been somewhat all quiet on the SMFIH front as of late, as yours truly and some of the staff have been busy trying to juggle the difficult task of both failing personally, professionally, and socially while also consistently bringing you the clusterfuck of culture you desire (or randomly stumble upon never to read again). For those of you still with us, thank you, and to newbies, we'll be back with new pieces to ogle and wantonly discard so please stay tuned and remember:
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Project Runway finally bridges the gap between self absorbed fashionistas and lovers of battered middle aged housewives
After the fairly impotent past few seasons of our once adored (now mostly non-plussed) Pro Run, Das Klum, the Gunn and Co. return with this... pretty much the exact same show it's always been except now in Los Angeles, with the same cavalcade of fashion icons/US Weekly cover of the week judges (there's hope for you yet, Kate Gosselin!), and now with the added bonus of seeing the 'show within the show', watching the runway models, to paraphrase Das Klum,"Walk the walk and actually see if they're capable of human speech, er, talk!"
To wit:
To wit:
- Project Runway is back
- It's in LA
- Lindsay Lohan maybe has better judgment with fashion than she does with choosing scripts?
- ProRun's Models of the Runway finally reveals an original show about models being the horrible human beings we've always hoped them to be... for the rare breed of fashion reality show fan who somehow has never heard of America's Next Top Model
- Viewers will no longer be saddled with the arduous task of pressing a button to change the channel from their beloved Reba marathon
- Das Klum is having another kid? Seal FTW
And America wins. I think. Read more...
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Zooey Deschanel: Faux-Indie Heartbreak
(Via)Somewhere while traversing the complicated land of physical objectification, a young adolescent publicly lauds the "realness" of an understated, yet overexposed beauty's ability to encompass every aspect of the flannel intelligentsia fantasy; noting her multifaceted artistic ability and her realistically unrealistic every-woman aesthetics, denying struggles in being able to easily name a successful independent work that actually conveys her dramatic expertise while discreetly consummating his relationship with the idealized indie archetype vis-Ã -vis a cold, sleek, cologne advert addled corporate magazine within the privacy of the family furnace room.
Young love in a sadness bowl.
Young love in a sadness bowl.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Aziz Ansari's Raaaaaaaandy documentary
While the marketing behind the new Apatow helmed picture Funny People has been somewhat of a mixed bag (what with the whole putting out a trailer that details the entire movie and all) if there's one thing to look forward to, it's a supporting spot by our beloved Aziz Ansari as the character Raaaaaaaandy, a vulgar, ridiculous, yet still amazingly charming and hilarious stand-up in the backdrop of the Sandler/Rogen somberfest.
The jury may still be out on whether seeing the overexposed Rogen weeping it up next to a melancholy Sandler will be funny, but if Raaaaaaaandy is any indication of the supporting personalities in the film, it should be a fun ride all the same.
The jury may still be out on whether seeing the overexposed Rogen weeping it up next to a melancholy Sandler will be funny, but if Raaaaaaaandy is any indication of the supporting personalities in the film, it should be a fun ride all the same.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
How to Save Newspapers: Buy One Anyway
I'm presuming this is supposed to be an attempt at humor, but for those of us invested in the industry, it just seems ridiculously sad. And not funny. And sad. But mostly not funny.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Patton Oswalt's Big Fan
(Via)Patton Oswalt in a movie about a depressed, directionless New York Giants football fanatic.
Kind of like De Niro and Snipes in The Fan except not completely hilariously awful. Just sad. And funny. With one of New York's favorite blackest white guys, Michael Rapaport.
Yes.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
The economy makes selling out cute
Ray LaMontagne's "Trouble" in a Travelers Insurance commercial. Awww. On two levels.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
A proper lady never fake orgasms before dessert
The Ugly Truth's Katherine Heigl is the Debbie Gibson to Meg Ryan's Britney Spears of fake movie meal orgasms.
Oh, yay. Read more...
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
George Lucas before Patton Oswalt wanted to kill him with a shovel
(Via Binary Bonsai)
Above, a newly uncovered film from Binary Bonsai that reveals a young George Lucas before he became the movie making luminary-turned-scorn-of-the-geek-blue-sea. He's angry, he's ambitious; pretty much how all fairly successful innovators start out before the eventual decline into accomplished complacency.
Below, the perfect rejoinder to today's Lucas courtesy of our beloved and insightful Patton Oswalt:
Below, the perfect rejoinder to today's Lucas courtesy of our beloved and insightful Patton Oswalt:
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Buzz Aldrin & Talib Kweli Wait for Guffman
Talib Kweli sees Common's crappy action movies and raises him a golden comedic performance. Now can my Henry Kissinger and Tom Waits fantasy collabo come true, please Internet?
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Scripted spontaneity is the spice of life
(Via)
Although Obama's penchant for the unnecessary photo op and media overexposure has at times bordered on the ridiculous (a Chicago White Sox visit even though they won their championship in 2005, really?) this behind the scenes look at his taped segment for The Colbert Report in Iraq is fun for everyone. Liberals can enjoy the sight of Colbert and Obama chumming it up, while conservatives who've lambasted the president for his incessant teleprompter use can lambast it up:
And one can't help but see the internal conflict of the country embodied by the video's disembodied YouTube commenters:
And one can't help but see the internal conflict of the country embodied by the video's disembodied YouTube commenters:
Hamlet, thy name is Joe402. Read more...
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