Posted in Cut to the Chase, Movies on July 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s the last inning of the most important game of the year, and you have just one inning to pitch. The only problem is that your arm isn’t letting you pitch 100% anymore. Do you:
Call a time out, tell your coach, and get replaced by another relief pitcher? OR
Intentionally walk 2 players, then get [...]
Posted in Cut to the Chase on February 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Keenan Thompson continues to get laughs with his “confused bystander” character on SNL. What’s his secret? Is it that his viewers find themselves easily able to identify with his character as many have at some time in their lives been confused bystanders? Is it his trademark “surprised” facial expression?
No. The answer is much more devious. [...]
Posted in Cut to the Chase on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the exciting beginning of a new season of television shows. Three that I have been following are “True Beauty,” “24,” and “The City.”
Let’s start with “True Beauty.” This show is a reality TV competition in which 3 judges deceive a group of people into believing they are in a beauty competition even though [...]
Posted in Cut to the Chase, Movies on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gracie and Viola are two girls with similar problems. They want to beat their school’s rival boys’ soccer team, and they both have vaginas. To overcome this obstacle, the two have very different strategies.
Gracie’s strategy starts with asking her father to train her. Then, she and her father petition the school board to allow girls [...]
Posted in Cut to the Chase, Movies on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Remember back in the day when “tough” generally described the people that could physically hurt you? Generally, this would be the bully that was bigger or the big group of kids that you feared because they had less to lose than you. The movie You Got Served doesn’t follow this pattern.
You Got Served [...]
Posted in Cut to the Chase on December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
MTV made my day today with the series premiere of The City, a reality-TV-documentary style spin-off of a spin-off (The Hills) of Laguna Beach.
Now, I’ve never really followed Laguna Beach or The Hills, but after watching the first two episodes of The City, I’ve decided that I’m really glad that there are people out there [...]
Posted in Cut to the Chase, Movies on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sally, clear my calendar for tomorrow (Sally’s my secretary). I’m going to go to the crafts store so I can buy 7 white t-shirts (one for each day of the week) and a silk screening kit. I’m going to make 7 t-shirts that say, “I <3 Audrey Tautou” (it’ll be a variation on the “I [...]
Posted in Cut to the Chase, Movies on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Phantom of the Opera is a gothic novel from 1910. In 1986, Andrew Lloyd Webber decided, “Broadway doesn’t have enough flashing lights and loud bangs, so I’m going to make this into a musical.” In 2004, Joel Schumacher (Batman & Robin, Ice to meet you), directs the film adaptation of the musical adaptation of [...]
Posted in Cut to the Chase, Movies on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a very good movie. It is about a man who has a car but needs keys to get into it. However, on his way out the door, he realizes that he doesn’t know where his keys are, and he’s on a time constraint so he has to find them soon!
To find them, he [...]
Posted in Cut to the Chase, Movies on December 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There’s nothing better than coming home after a busy day of work and finding that the Super Mario Brothers: Super Show! is available on Netflix instant streaming. In this show, Captain Lou Albana plays Mario in a live action about the video game character Mario. Each episode looks like this:
Captain Lou Albana and Danny [...]
