Category Archives: Movies / TV

STAR TREK 2009

May 11, 2009 – 9:33 pm

I used to go to the movies all the time. Movies were an event. I saw THE HARDER THEY COME at the Orson Welles Theater in Cambridge. TOWERING INFERNO on Times Square and APOCALYPSE NOW at the Ziegfield Theater. First day. First Screening. These moments were magic, however the movie-going experience has become tawdry with […]

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ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO Banned in Bangkok

April 21, 2009 – 10:25 am

BANNED IN BOSTON gave a film a certain cachet in the 20th Century. Boston’s blue laws on morality gave the city a well-deserved reputation as a bastion of spiritual correctitude, despite Foley Square being a center of sexual titillation. The sexual liberation of the 1960s stormed this Bay State bastion of conservatism and the Combat […]

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ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO – 2008

April 16, 2009 – 12:52 pm

My roommate Vladmar is a huge Steelers fan. He comes from Pittsburgh, but has never seen ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO, a film set in his hometown about two roommates making a porno film to pay off their debts. They are male and female unlike Vladmar and me. I would never make a porno […]

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GRAN TORINO

January 20, 2009 – 7:41 am

Clint Eastwood has been my hero since his days as the fresh-faced TV cowhand Rowdy Yates in RAWHIDE. His movie career has been marked by great films dedicated to righteous violence and terse expressions; THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES, THE GOOD THE BAD THE UGLY, DIRTY HARRY, THE UNFORGIVEN et al. Even more surprisingly he’s a […]

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Bad Hair Day for MTV

September 8, 2008 – 12:10 pm

John McCain has been quoted as saying, “The music my kids listen to is crap.” I have to agree with him, but MTV has a yearly schedule that includes the MTV music awards. Last night was meant to a showcase for the comeback of Britney Spears, however the born-again blonde was upstaged by Russell Brand, […]

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