So I read that when Brad Pitt was making The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, he posed for what the filmmakers called a “Brad Pitt emotional library.” Basically they just photographed him and recorded his face from every angle with every expression. I was thinking that this would be perfect for making virtual Brad Pitt [...]

Dear Mr. Mandel, I have been a great admirer of your work since childhood. Your animated series “Bobby’s World” was a delight, and who can forget the fine Fred Savage film “Little Monsters” with your starmaking turn as Maurice, the punk rock monster (who kind of reminds me of Vivian in “The Young Ones”)? In [...]

You know those creepy Pledge cleaning product ads, where some faceless British-sounding narrator diabolically traps innocent women in glass boxes with furniture in them, and forces them to clean against their will? At the end of this one, the woman even knocks and asks if she can go home…. Click here to continue reading this [...]

I would have liked it if, in Slumdog Millionaire, our hero reads one of the questions on the tense Millionaire game show, and then flashes back in his typical Lost style to an incident in his past that relates somehow to the question, but this time it’s just him watching Who Wants to be a [...]

So it’s no secret that now-Former Vice President Dick Cheney made quite the entrance at last week’s inauguration, riding in on a sinister wheelchair quite unexpectedly. And if you recall, in late 2007 I pointed out some of the stunning similarities between Cheney and one Mr. Potter from the much-beloved Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful [...]

Before somebody points it out, I know the above photo is of Oscar statuettes. I just don’t have the time to waste on photo editing when there’s so much Hollywood feces to scoop out of the giant TV litter box that is my brain. Notes and observations: -I don’t like the whole cutting straight to the [...]

As I’ve previously mentioned, I am a fan of CBS’ Swingtown, and now that I’m learning more about the actors in the show, I like it even more!  For one thing, the main husband is the British in-charge guy (Commodore Norrington I think) in Pirates of the Caribbean, and the girl who plays Trina was [...]

With a new movie musical coming out every other day, I wonder why nobody’s thought of turning rom-com favorite My Best Friend’s Wedding into the next Broadway sensation.  Think about it.  The soundtrack is comprised almost entirely of Burt Bacharach/Hal David songs, so you’ve got your music theme right there.  And it’s a cheesy, wedding-related [...]

Vice President Richard B. Cheney       vs. Henry F. Potter from It’s a Wonderful Life White haired, balding, bespectacled politician with extensive business interests which have made him a millionaire. Since working with Nixon in the ’60′s, he has been plotting to centralize the power of the Executive branch, something he’s arguably already [...]

In case you didn’t know, I’m a huge fan of the Spy Kids series, so I am very excited to report that it looks like Machete, a spin-off centered around Danny Trejo’s fantastic titular character, is actually going to happen. It’s labeled as a straight-to-video release right now, but with a tagline like “They Fucked [...]