“I am glad our son beat the shit out of your son, and I wipe my ass with your human rights!”- One mother to another. The H-Bomb: One afternoon, while playing in a park in New York City, two boys get into an altercation in which one boy picks up a big stick and whacks the other across the face with it. We come to find out that the boy who was hit lost two teeth and … [Read more...] about Carnage
Archives for September 2012
Finding Nemo 3D
"I became obsessed with this premise that fear can deny a good father from being one." Director/Writer/'Crush' - Andrew Stanton Swift shot: Under the Sea . . . in 3D! It's hard to perfect perfection, but the miracle workers at Pixar seemed to have done just that. When they first started putting together Finding Nemo, they thought of it as Bambi … [Read more...] about Finding Nemo 3D
For a Good Time, Call
Katie Steele (Ari Graynor, who looks like a young Bette Midler) lives in a fabulous, rent-controlled apartment in Gramercy Park (it used to be her Grandma, or “Bubbie’s”, apartment). Unfortunately, the control part of rent-control is over and she is about to be homeless. Lauren Powell (Lauren Miller, aka Mrs. Seth Rogen) is suddenly single after her long-time … [Read more...] about For a Good Time, Call
The Possession
Not another Exorcism movie . . . The H-Bomb: Clyde (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Stephanie (Kyra Sedgwick) are a recently divorced couple who are doing the joint custody thing with their daughters, Em (Natasha Calis) and Hannah (Madison Davenport). Hannah is in her early teens and is starting to develop an F-you attitude towards her dad, while the younger … [Read more...] about The Possession
2016: Obama’s America
"We are all shaped by our past." Swift shot: "It's propaganda," a friend of mine said, "I don't want to waste my time with it." While it may fall under the legal definition of propaganda, I didn't feel that it was unfair to Obama, in fact, it made him a more sympathetic character . . . for a man I usually despise. Yea, I said it, I despise Obama, and as this is bound … [Read more...] about 2016: Obama’s America