April 2010

I See You

27 April 2010

There are, as far as I’m aware, three distinct camps of people in regard to Avatar. The first believes that the film is a transcendent experience – one that makes people sad about how real it isn’t and makes weirdos dress up like the film’s Smurf-tiger hybrid aliens on ChatRoulette.  The second believe that the [...]

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Movie Review: Kick-Ass

26 April 2010

Like virtually all of Mark Millar’s writing, especially his output in the past decade, Kick-Ass is dumb, sensationalist pablum that flirts with racism and sexism very heavily if not embracing it outright.  As a result, I have had no desire to see the movie. Until I saw the movie. What Matthew Vaughn has done with [...]

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Friday Cover Songs – Bieber Fever

23 April 2010

Aziz Ansari, in his RAAAAAAAANDY persona from the movie Funny People, is making a mixtape with TV On the Radio’s Dave Sitek. Their first track? A cover of Justin Bieber’s “Baby”. Aziz Ansari featuring DJ Ol’ Youngin’ – Baby Baby (Justin Bieber cover) I believe if you say Justin Bieber’s name three times, he comes [...]

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Why Jeff Watches V

21 April 2010

V reminds me of a Boo from a Super Mario Bros. game. I’ve been looking at it for months now and it doesn’t move an inch. I keep looking at it, though, because I know once my back is turned that it’s going to be all fangs and flurries of violent movement. The show has [...]

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Horror Movie Review: Kill Theory

20 April 2010

All you need to know about Kill Theory, aside from its Saw-like premise* are these three things: 1. That kid from Mean Girls who sang “Beautiful” in the talent show? He gets a gun and totally freaks out. It is shrill and hilarious, just as you’d expect from that kid from Mean Girls who sang [...]

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Roger Ebert – Wrong About Gaming?

19 April 2010

In the loud and unfortunately nonsensical (in many cases) reaction to Roger Ebert’s proclamation that video games are not and will likely never be art, it is easy to miss that Ebert is not decrying the medium or proclaiming it to be without merit.  He’s simply saying that games aren’t art. And, speaking as a [...]

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Friday Cover Songs – Under Cover

16 April 2010

The AV Club – the most worthwhile part of The Onion – is a few weeks into its’ Starbucks-sponsored Under Cover.  The premise – a setlist of 25 songs that each week’s guest artist must choose one song to cover from ranging from megapopular to obscure, from easy to cover to M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes,” which [...]

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Jeff Watches Harper’s Island

13 April 2010

We’re a few weeks away from the premiere of Happy Town, a new serial thriller about a bunch of murders in a sleepy town with a dark past.  Which puts me in the frame of mind to revisit another classic television thriller  about strange murders in a reclusive small town. Good guess, guys, but no. [...]

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5 Implausible Things That Someone Is Going To Turn Into A Movie Someday

12 April 2010

Did you know they’re making a movie of Battleship?  They’re making a movie about those obnoxious E-trade demon babies. I think they’re even making a movie out of The Sims, and that’s a shame because there’s no way in hell it’s about the lives of mad scientists and criminals who speak in a gibberish language [...]

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Friday Cover Songs – I Never Travel Far Without A Little Big Star

9 April 2010

A belated RIP to Alex Chilton.  I was planning on using a cover of “In the Street” from last week’s Wilco concert, but the sound quality I managed to get was awful, sadly. Not so with these three: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – The Ballad of El Goodo (Big Star cover) Elliot Smith – [...]

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