My review of the movie Across the Universe staring Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Ward is available at Amazon.com here.
All the great music in the world can’t make a so so movie more than what it is.
Posts Tagged ‘pop culture’
Across the Universe: Amazon Review
Posted: April 10, 2010 by datechguy in amazon reviewsTags: beatles, movies, music, pop culture
Morning Joe just did a story on the upcoming Tiger Woods press conference…
Posted: April 5, 2010 by datechguy in media, opinion/newsTags: Bruce springstein, media malpractice, morning joe, obama administration, pop culture, tiger woods
…they noted it will be the first since the scandal broke.
No mention on the lack of press conferences by the president over the last nine months. Then again both Norah O’Donnell and Chuck Todd defended the president on Chris Matthews show this weekend so it is not much of a surprise.
I wonder if they will hit Bruce Springsteen over his affair. I don’t know how many of Tigers women were married.
Ya gotta love someone who is honorable like Neal McDonough…
Posted: April 1, 2010 by datechguy in catholicTags: catholic, honor, Neal McDonough, pop culture, tv, virginia madson
…who actually lives his religion:
when he was suddenly replaced with David James Elliott 3 days into the filming on ABC’s new series Scoundrels earlier this week, there had to be a story behind the story. The move was officially explained as a casting change. But, in fact, McDonough was sacked because of his refusal to do some heated love scenes with babelicious star (and Botox pitchwoman) Virginia Madsen. The reason? He’s a family man and a Catholic, and he’s always made it clear that he won’t do sex scenes.
According to the article this is costing him as much as $1 million dollars. There are plenty of men who would happily do heated love scenes with Virginia Madsen for nothing, but some people just can’t be bought.
Gawker makes an interesting point:
I don’t know about Hollywood, but in the real world, being fired for refusing to take your shirt off and make out with someone is called sexual harassment!
In case you don’t know who he is:
And this is the woman he turned down:
I tip my fedora to him.
Update: Fancast calls him the “anti-tiger”
If you are going nuts with all the Health care stuff…
Posted: March 21, 2010 by datechguy in funTags: movies, music, obamacare, pop culture
…there is always this post about a movie called the Runaways.
It’s rock and roll: they tore each other apart. For a time. (There are exceptions: see Ford, Lita, whose beauty was more conventional that that of the front girls. And her music? Much less, thank you very much.)
I envy Joy right now, my favorite distraction is unavailable for another two weeks.
If you need to walk away from the healthcare vote for a bit a movie isn’t a bad idea.
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