Movies

I am sorry, there is no way in hell that a slimy reptilian like monster is in any way, shape or form, cute and cuddly like dog or a horse.

I can smell the slime on the Loch Ness monster in that poster from here. I can even feel the scaly skin on the creature and all I want to say is, "Eww."

Yet what I don't understand is how any child may want to have a monster lurking in their backyard pond. I still have the imagination of a kid and some think I am quite immature. I can't imagine a time in my life when I wanted to have the Loch Ness monster as a pet.

I mean, seriously.

Macro made by moi

Seriously.

WTF!

I haven't seen the movie. Actually, I am going to come clean : I haven't seen any of the movies.

That's right. I haven't given a shit about movies for a long time, especially if they are meant to make me ponderous or outright depressed. I think everything went downhill for me after I watched Pier Paolo Passolini's Salo. I just couldn't do cinema easily after that.

Back to DDL.

It's seems that Mr. Day-Lewis here has been sweeping every single major acting award for the past 2 months. My bb Viggo won a few awards but Daniel is one greedy motherfucker ... or should we say the judges are just plain lazy.

Anyhow, I'm scooting over to the Oscars Watch Party over at Comix Club here in NYC. It's sad, but I haven't been to an Oscars party in years. Worse of all, it's the first time in months I go out for fun as in not related to blogging and/or business.

If it weren't a work day tomorrow, I'd totally get smashed

Hopefully it won't suck.

So which actors and/or movies are your favorites?

I'm not going to be around until after the Oscars. If you're looking for a fun place to crash online, the best place for Oscars buzz is, of course, Oh No They Didn't.

My wife takes Karate at a local dojo for women. One of her fellow students has a new film coming out, opening in Los Angeles. I cannot personally vouch for it, but I hear it is quite good! Here is an email from the film maker about the opening and critics' reviews:

LIBERTY KID - the new film by Ilya Chaiken
Opens Feb. 1 in Los Angeles!
Please spread the word!!!

Laemmle Grande- 345 S. Figueroa St- Downtown L.A.
www.libertykidmovie.com

[show times are: 5:20pm 7:30pm 9:50pm]

"N. Y. Times 'Critic's Pick'- There's not a single wrong note in
"Liberty Kid," Ilya Chaiken's poignant drama. Tender, wise and
deceptively low-key... everything about this film feels effortless."-
New York Times

"New York Magazine 'Critic's Pick'- Chaiken's subtle narrative touch,
along with the exceptionally strong performances of leads Al Thompson
and Kareem Saviñon, gives this one a rare emotional pull."- New York
Magazine

"Chaiken makes us feel for her characters... "Liberty Kid" is a
poignant look at what might be called 9/11's collateral damage".- NY
Post

"Liberty Kid elevates… by keeping a 'Wire'-worthy ear to the street
talk of south Williamsburg and maintaining a shrewd balance of the
personal and the political… an uncommonly acute, deftly played drama
of the New York working class"- Village Voice

"the least explicit yet most affecting film yet to depict New York in

And here it is, you're moment of Zen : Monty Python and the Holy Grail's "Im' not dead yet" bit :

Sad but true story : I have been an oddball most of my life but especially after "discovering" at age 11 or 12 Monty Python. Remember, I grew up in Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans don't do Monty Python. So for me to quote this movie and laugh hysterically among a group of cuchifrito loving gwannabes was, well, seen as just plain old weird.

So anyway, the thing is that when I first met the father of my children, I remember clearly turning to my roommate who happened to be Puerto Rican, and telling her, "OMFG, he looks like a cuter Eric Idle". And yes, there was much consternation and glazing of eyes and "you're so fucking weird, Liza".

It's been almost 20 years since I first said that ... and no, I think he waaaaay better looking than Eric Idle; unfortunately not as funny. Well, maybe a little.

Straight from fangoria.com, look out for this new film that's in the works. A good friend Bryonn Bain, New York lawyer-activist-poet and now actor plays a key role in this movie. We're all very proud to see his talents rise up to the big screen. . .

With Jim (SKINWALKERS) Isaac’s latest horror romp PIG HUNT wrapped, the director sent Fango a slew of exclusive pics from the flick, which details the exploits of a massive (and massively) homicidal boar known as “The Ripper” and the various eccentric denizens of the remote northern California town it terrorizes. Bloody good stuff, to be sure, and PIG HUNT screenwriter/co-producer Robert Mailer Anderson assures us there will be even more on display in the finished film.

“One of the goals of PIG HUNT is to examine death, and why people kill, so there will be a fair amount of gore,” Anderson tells Fango, “but it isn’t ‘torture porn.’ PIG HUNT is old-school terror, like DELIVERANCE or STRAW DOGS—except, of course,” he notes playfully, “for the ‘Abu Ghraib’ setpiece, and our 3,000-pound wild hog, and the dead emus, and the decapitation, and the gunplay.”

Filmed from April 23-June 6 in Boonville, CA “and three days in San Francisco, including a day at Kerner Optical [formerly ILM Special Effects],” PIG HUNT also employed the talents of 2nd-unit director Justin Sundquist and “action heroes Spiro [MANIAC COP 2] Razatos and Igor [BOURNE ULTIMATUM] Meglic, who made our ROAD WARRIOR-esque action sequences doubly intense,” Anderson says. “Rex Reddick rode his dirt bike like a man possessed, or a meth addict redneck hell-bent on revenge—like the script called for!”

I hate Monday mornings. It's almost noon and I have been juggling a kabillion different things since 7am. I need a break badly and so ...

I LOVE MICHAEL BAY!!!!!!!

This movie just looks ...

OMFGOMFGOMFGOMFGOMFGOMFGOMFGOMFGOMFG
OMFGOMFGOMFGOMFGOMFGOMFGOMFGOMFGOMFG

AWESOME!

Can't wait to see it.

And, people, can we skip the voting and ceremonies and just give the Transformers' Visual and Sound Effects teams the 2008 Oscar?

Okay?

K.

Black Angelina

This ad for A Mighty Heart has been cycling through our site and just have to comment on it.

I sincerely still do not what to make of Angelina Jolie playing a black (albeit light-skinned) woman.

Yeah, sure, Marianne Pearl is her BFF but still, the former struggling actress in me just goes, Damn!

I can't help but see this as yet another example of how, not just latina neither just black, but black latina actresses are rendered invisible by the Hollywood crowd.

Oh.

My.

God.

Ok, so I know there's girls out ther that are totally into action movies; but ... maaaaaan. My boys and I just had to wipe the drool off our mouths after we saw this trailer. Actually, they got pretty spooked but I was like totally,

OOOOH!

AWESOME!

THAT ROCKS!

I can't wait for this movie to come out. Seriously. And I really don't care much if it has a story or not.

Who gives a damn about plot when the story is in how they created the "live action" looking robots?

And the sounds effects!

Duuuuuuuude! Can you dig the sound effects?!?!?!

Ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod
ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod.

I really,

honestly,

deeply,

truly

can't wait for this movie to come out.

I AM SO THERE ON OPENING NIGHT!

What follows is completely true and yet unreal.
Stephen Foster met Uncle Ben in my radio reverie this morning. For real, or so it seemed. (Y'all know I hear odd connections in that place between asleep and awake.)

Two southern stories that seem literally black and white, but turn out to be anything but.

Radio news reported that the Southland's good old-fashioned composer is on his way out; our conservative and affable new governor actually refuses to have our state song played in his presence! (yet in the same breath he says "whatever the people want satisfies me" and that sure sounds unreal to me.)

Nobody said anything unmannerly or politically correct about unpopular language, although that's likely the truth. One legislator did mention the word "darkies" but to hear them tell it, it's not that, just the times they are a'changin' . . .hey, now THAT would make a great state song!

Meanwhile good old-fashioned Uncle Ben got a promotion to Chairman of the Board. He isn't the kindly kitchen rice-cooker anymore, now he's the Donald Trump of Rice, with his own fancy penthouse office, jet-setting schedule and authoritative rice-education curriculum. (You can poke around his empty office, open his travel journal, it feels almost like corporate espionage, with him hanging on the wall watching your every move!)