‘RIDDICK 3′ RESUMES FILMING

Best news of the day, other than this, of course.

WHY AM I SUPPOSED TO HATE ‘X-MEN: LAST STAND’?

The third and final installment of the original is no classic but after watching it again last week, I still don’t understand why I’m supposed to hate it so much. Is it just because Brett Ratner directed? The story moves really well, the action is exciting, the climax feels like a climax.

I just don’t get it.

The same way it drives me crazy when I don’t love movies everyone else does (“Raging Bull,” “2001″), it drives me crazy when I enjoy something universally despised. Deep down inside, I really do want to  conform and be cool like everyone else.

Another question: why did Wolverine have to kill Jean at the end? Is there some reason he couldn’t have given her the mutant antidote … that just happened to be laying all over the ground?

FX SETS MIDSEASON PREMIERE DATES: ‘JUSTIFIED’ RETURNS JAN. 17; ‘ARCHER’ JAN. 19

“Justified” feels like a show I should be watching.

New teasers.

TOM HANKS BACK TO WWII FOR IN THE ‘GARDEN OF BEASTS‘

And by “WWII” they of course mean The War of Racism and Terror.

Does this mean Hanks is done making unwatchable, multi-million dollar movies portraying my faith as a big sham? Cuz that would be nice.

‘HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2′ BANNED IN AUSTRALIA

I have never read so much about a movie that absolutely no one saw or is interested in seeing.  NO ONE cares, and yet the publicity machine makes it sound like we’re in the middle of some kind of phenom.

PRETEENS WATCH MORE TV THIS FALL, BUT NICKELODEON, CARTOON NETWORK DROP

If I had kids, the only channels that would be accessible would be Turner Classic Movies and Fox News. Other than that, I can’t imagine allowing Hollywood to in any way define who my children would become.

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In an industry filled with quislings, appeasers, moral cowards, and politically correct, multicultural, progressive fascists, Rush Limbaugh’s pal is quite the breath of heroic fresh air.  You just get the sense that Elton John hates to be told what to think, which makes him a Big Hollywood kind of guy.

The Associated Press:

Pounding his piano in blue-tinted sunglasses before nearly 50,000 screaming fans, Elton John took center stage in a battle over Israel’s image.

The legendary British rocker’s concert on Thursday night followed a string of cancellations by artists like Elvis Costello and the Pixies. Resisting a growing wave of calls from pro-Palestinian activists to boycott the Jewish state, John gave Israelis a rare reason to smile amid their increasing sense of international isolation.

“Ain’t gonna stop me from coming here, baby,” he told the cheering crowd in Tel Aviv, saying he believed music should spread peace and bring people together: “That is what we do. We do not cherry-pick our consciences, OK?” he added, in an apparent swipe at the artists who have canceled concerts in Israel. …. (more…)

I took my five-year-old son (Ed) and seven-year-old daughter (Ahmi) to see “Monsters vs. Aliens.” We got our Elvis Costello 3D glasses and wore them at all the wrong times during the television commercials that come on before the movie trailers. My kids didn’t know but I was mostly interested in their response to the 3D imagery. That’s right, I went to “Monsters vs. Aliens” primarily for human experimentation. They reached out to grab objects that appeared to float in front of them, but the greatest of all expressions came to their faces every time I looked over at them: smiles.

Reese Witherspoon voices Ginormica, a 49-foot-tall woman with an awesome figure. More to love. But her fiance is a sleazy weatherman from Modesto, as if there’s any other kind. Ginormica is the straight person in the adventure; she carries the hero’s burden of bringing any kind of depth or drama to a 90 minute farce. Her comedy relief side-kicks are fish man, cockroach man, a big Mothra maggot and the show stealing gelatinous B.O.B. voiced by Seth Rogen. (more…)