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Random Factoid #15
When you buy tickets from the automatic ticket machine at my favorite movie theater (see Random Factoid #3), the tickets are not the same height as the ones in my ticket collection. The ones I prefer...
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Random Factoid #154
Ever since I have had a laptop, the desktop wallpaper has been predominately movies. Now, it is adorned by “Up in the Air.” On my current laptop, the wall has been owned by “Funny People,” “The...
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LISTFUL THINKING: The Top 10 Movies of 2009
As strange as it is to say, 2009 is over. As the bookend of the first decade of the new millennium, this year has come to represent the changing scope of the 2000s. Technology, as it always seems to,...
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Random Factoid #161
Building off yesterday’s factoid about in-room movies in hotels, do I have a story for you! On a college trip to Southern California this last September with my dad, I did as my instinct told me when...
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Random Factoid #271
Do you ever hear a song in a movie and from then on forever associate it with that movie? Well, I do. Last night at prom, I heard Flo-Rida’s “Right Round” for the first time in months. While the song...
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Random Factoid #306
This post was partially derived in my own head, but there was a major impetus by Red’s “Greatest Comedy Ever Tournament.” I love quoting comedies. I do it to the point where it borders on becoming a...
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The Comedy Flops of 2009
I don’t often put much thought into what is written on DVD cases. However, I saw a particularly interesting one on the cover of “Year One.” Rene Rodriguez of the Miami Herald wrote: “I double dare...
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Random Factoid #331
After 17 months, my wait is over. Back in February 2009, I cracked my four-month-old iPhone. I’ve been living with my flawed screen ever since, waiting for a model worthy of my money to be released....
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Random Factoid #566
With “The Hangover Part II” now in theaters, I thought it would be as good a time as ever to revisit some slightly old news from the series’ director, Todd Phillips. In an interview with Elvis...
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REVIEW: The Hangover Part III
Two summers ago, I expressed my frustration with the inertia of the “Hangover” franchise in my review for the carbon-copy sequel. I wrote, “‘The Hangover Part II‘ is like breathing in airplane air....
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REVIEW: The Hangover
When I started writing this site over 7 years ago, it was the summer of “The Hangover.” This comedy sensation that came out of nowhere spawned Facebook wall posts and bumper stickers (remember those?)...
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