A couple of weeks ago, I Facebooked some derogatory comments about the unsubtly titled Drag Me To Hell; I was misinterpreting it to be a trashy horror flick with a terribly unimaginative title (a la I Spit On Your Grave of yore), when in fact it's a sort of pomo revisiting of the genre, a knowing recreation of...a trashy horror flick with a terribly unimaginative title.
It doesn't count as bad if you know you're making a "bad" movie; instead it comes off as nostalgic and if not necessarily cerebral, somewhat smart. It was directed by Sam Raimi of Evil Dead and more recently Spider-Man fame, so I should have known better.
I just closed on a refinance and I must admit it went better than this.
As I watched, I certainly enjoyed it, but kept trying to figure out its pedigree—part Tim Burton (its fable quality), part Disney (it's only PG-13 and despite gross-outs feels harmless), part Brian DePalma (it's so over-the-top it can't even see the top anymore). But by the end, it was shockingly apparent that rather than a mix of those elements, it's really just 100% one thing—it's a slightly longer, slightly better-than-average Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode.
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Former President Bill Clinton's view on marriage equality is "evolving"—that's the word for when you begin to feel you can safely say how you've really felt all along. But "Democrat" Shirley L. Huntley, a state senator from New York, has never been shy to let people know she is not down with gay marriage. Even a call from Maya Angelou herself did not move her. In response, Huntley said, "If they gave me a million dollars, tax free, I just wouldn't vote for it."
Angelou graciously told Huntley she understood. I, for one, do not.
First of all...who said anything about money? Sounds like New York's got their own Roland Burris here—you don't vote for things based on how much money it will make you...or does she?
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