Hustle and Flow (2005) is the Hip-Hop Purple Rain that 8 Mile wanted to be. How? By including all the things that made Purple Rain great that were missing in 8 Mile: A great (Oscar-winning, even) soundtrack (every song in Purple Rain was great, the only great song in 8 Mile was the one that [...]
In the summer of 1989, The Charlotte Observer was B&W every day except for Sunday. The Friday that Batman (1989) was released, I was the fool on the front page that caused them to make an exception. If you were around the CLT back then, you might remember the photo of me and [...]
in the year 2006 AD, sirshannon predicts that
Katie Holmes will not get married
Drew Barrymore will
Keira Knightly will continue to refrain from professing her undying love for sirshannon
J-Lo will get either pregnant or seperated. Not both.
UFC will either either shape up FAST (ie. by the end of the next PPV event), or UFC fans will [...]
Inside Deep Throat may be the funniest mocumentary ever. What…. you mean those people are real? Holy shit, this is the best documentary ever.
In the course of Alexander, the title character ages almost 30 years.
I swear this fuckin movie progresses in real-time.
Mobile Jones has a new post with some very interesting thoughts about (and quotes from) the newest press release from the MPAA regarding their battle against the world internet pirates.
It is a shame that the RIAA’s tactics are rubbing off on the MPAA when, unlike the RIAA, the MPAA’s profits have been steadily increasing as [...]
Someone please give this girl a sammich.
hmmm…
The movie that started it all, Deep Throat, is being re-released and is the subject of a new documentary. That documentary, Inside Deep Throat, is the subject of a review on today’s Fresh Air:
Fresh Air from WHYY, February 11, 2005 - Film critic David Edelstein reviews Inside Deep Throat, a new documentary that [...]
Gizmodo points to an article saying that Apex will support DivX natively. I’ve been a fan of Apex’s dirt cheap DVD players not so much for the price but for the large number of formats it will play. The only thing that was missing was DivX support, so I’m looking forward to [...]