Archive for January, 2009:

This pretty much sums up the current mood. »

(via House Next Door)

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A Beginner’s Guide to Comparative Celebrities: Paul Walker Vs. Chris Evans »

Good day to you and welcome to Burbanked’s first instructional for 2009, A Beginner’s Guide to Comparative Celebrities. In these confusing days of cookie-cutter Hollywood films, with all of the remakes and sequels and reboots and fighting robot movies and fantastically over-edited action claptrap, you have probably become confused and disoriented by a complete inability [...]

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Terminator Salvation is a needy wussy who is desperate for your attention. »

Imagine, just imagine what it would be like if you didn’t know that Linda Hamilton might make a cameo voiceover appearance in Terminator Salvation. Just think about that magical moment of discovery, what dynamic energy it would bring to the movie if it simply opened with the haunting words of Sarah Connor to her son [...]

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Michael Bay doesn’t dare throw down with Mickey like he did with McG. »

Seriously? This peculiar Mickey Mouse toy, in all of its obscurely-motivated, cross-promotional, outright oddballness, makes more sense to me than anything that happened in Michael Bay’s Transformers.If 2009’s Transformers: Revenge of the Idiotic Plot Contrivances ends up having anything as cleanly-designed and simply recognizable as Mickey here, I promise to throw away all the “Michael [...]

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Frankly, my dear, my movie quotes widget doesn’t give a damn. »

INCREDIBLY STARTLING AND IMPORTANT BOLD TYPE-WORTHY UPDATE: The widget seems to be working again. Oh happy day until it breaks once more.
About three months ago, I combined a couple of WordPress plugins to create a nifty little effect at the top of this site’s sidebar in which a random movie screengrab and a random movie [...]

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All Ray, all the time. »

I’ve made no secret of my blog-love for the delightful and acerbic film stylings of Ray DeRousse, who has now launched his own solo site here at Sammyray On Film. Already Ray’s posted thoughts on Jackie Chan appearing in the Karate Kid remake (against), the first time he’s finally watched Fargo (for), speculation about Patrick [...]

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Don’t you…forget about Quisp. »

Ironic Sans is the blog of David Friedman, a New York City photographer who posts intriguing and offbeat bits of pop culture images and artwork, kind of like this terrific piece:Enjoy more of Friedman’s delightful esoterica here.

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