Ten years after its initial release, Superbad continues to live on in the American zeitgeist. Like other comedy hits before it, references to the film’s jokes have gone from being hilarious, to annoying, to nostalgia-inducing, to hilarious again. And even after a decade of everyone and their mother misquoting McLovin,…
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- 8/31/2017
- by Dan Neilan
- avclub.com
“I won’t be ig-nored, Dan,” said Alex Forest (Glenn Close) to her illicit lover Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) in Fatal Attraction. And so said a large enough number of disconcerted people who were fed up with being ig-nored by the political elite gathered around the Potomac basin to swing the Electoral College vote in favor of Donald Trump. Go fuck yourselves, they said. Bend over, said Trump.
It’s been one lie after another, one alternative fact after another, and one tweet after another since the inauguration, all to assuage the ego of the malignant narcissist who sits in the oval office. His sickophants trip over each other in their eagerness to obfuscate the truth and stay in their own bubbles of power. Erstwhile enemies, thugs, and bullies are welcomed and coddled and credit is taken where it is not due. Everything is upside down and inside out. And...
It’s been one lie after another, one alternative fact after another, and one tweet after another since the inauguration, all to assuage the ego of the malignant narcissist who sits in the oval office. His sickophants trip over each other in their eagerness to obfuscate the truth and stay in their own bubbles of power. Erstwhile enemies, thugs, and bullies are welcomed and coddled and credit is taken where it is not due. Everything is upside down and inside out. And...
- 5/29/2017
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
Ocsar Wilde championed the notion that life imitates art. He believed the old saying “results not merely from life’s imitative instinct, but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression, and that Art offers it certain beautiful forms through which it may realize that energy.” Wilde was a miraculous writer and thinker. But sometimes the classic Aristotelian worldview he opined against proves just as accurate. Sometimes art imitates life. To my disgust, such is the case with Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier film and the history of the United States. Kind of.
[*Spoilers for Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Ed Brubaker's Captain America run to follow.]
If you’re reading this, you’ve likely seen it. Cap 2 made over 700 million dollars worldwide. It was a success commercially (still only fifth highest grossing of 2014), but more than that it was respected by critics for its political-thriller/espionage flare that set it squarely in our post-Patriot Act, drones at the ready,...
[*Spoilers for Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Ed Brubaker's Captain America run to follow.]
If you’re reading this, you’ve likely seen it. Cap 2 made over 700 million dollars worldwide. It was a success commercially (still only fifth highest grossing of 2014), but more than that it was respected by critics for its political-thriller/espionage flare that set it squarely in our post-Patriot Act, drones at the ready,...
- 10/30/2014
- by Dan Black
- SoundOnSight
Welcome to Issue 5 of ‘The Marvelous Da7e!’
Real quick mission statement: this column is for discussion of superhero movie news and superhero movies. Titular allegiance aside, this sphere includes non-Marvel properties.
This week: I think the cinema has misused Superman as a character and a podcast about functional design blows my mind and reveals the Man of Tomorrow.
Down in San Diego, our brethren unite to cover television, movies and comics. I can promise you full analysis of the superhero movies next week, but what’s the fun of calling shots when each new day could potentially bring new pictures of Jamie Foxx’s Blusferatu Electro make-up?
Instead, I think it’s time I face a new fear I’ve developed since the release of Zach Snyder’s Man of Steel: Maybe we’ve all been misusing Superman as a character in movies the whole time.
In a...
Real quick mission statement: this column is for discussion of superhero movie news and superhero movies. Titular allegiance aside, this sphere includes non-Marvel properties.
This week: I think the cinema has misused Superman as a character and a podcast about functional design blows my mind and reveals the Man of Tomorrow.
Down in San Diego, our brethren unite to cover television, movies and comics. I can promise you full analysis of the superhero movies next week, but what’s the fun of calling shots when each new day could potentially bring new pictures of Jamie Foxx’s Blusferatu Electro make-up?
Instead, I think it’s time I face a new fear I’ve developed since the release of Zach Snyder’s Man of Steel: Maybe we’ve all been misusing Superman as a character in movies the whole time.
In a...
- 7/17/2013
- by Da7e
- LRMonline.com
Bite-sized TV news, including items on Cee Lo Green and a dubious achievement for "Game of Thrones." Enjoy:
- "The View" co-host Joy Behar, who exited her evening Hln show last year, has a new gig at Current TV. She'll host a daily news-and-talk show that touches on "relevant topics that impact the American zeitgeist." The show premieres in the fall, but Behar will be a guest host for Eliot Spitzer's "Viewpoint" the week of June 18. [Current]
- Another "NCIS" regular is returning to the fold for the show's 10th season. Rocky Carroll has signed a new deal to remain on the CBS drama, joining the recently re-upped David McCallum. Negotiations with regulars Sean Murray, Pauley Perrette and Michael Weatherly are ongoing. [TVLine]
- The increasingly ubiquitous Cee Lo Green will pop up on TV Land's new comedy "Soul Man" later this summer. The show stars Cedric the Entertainer as a...
- "The View" co-host Joy Behar, who exited her evening Hln show last year, has a new gig at Current TV. She'll host a daily news-and-talk show that touches on "relevant topics that impact the American zeitgeist." The show premieres in the fall, but Behar will be a guest host for Eliot Spitzer's "Viewpoint" the week of June 18. [Current]
- Another "NCIS" regular is returning to the fold for the show's 10th season. Rocky Carroll has signed a new deal to remain on the CBS drama, joining the recently re-upped David McCallum. Negotiations with regulars Sean Murray, Pauley Perrette and Michael Weatherly are ongoing. [TVLine]
- The increasingly ubiquitous Cee Lo Green will pop up on TV Land's new comedy "Soul Man" later this summer. The show stars Cedric the Entertainer as a...
- 6/11/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Joy Behar will host a new primetime show for Current TV beginning in September. The "View" co-host, whose Hln series "The Joy Behar Show" was canceled last year, will appear Monday through Thursday nights at 6 p.m. The new show, which also has "The Joy Behar Show" as its working title, will repat later in the evening. Featuring a regular rotating group of journalists, analysts and political satirists, it will focus on political events, social issues and relevant topics that impact the American zeitgeist. The cast, official title and premiere date will...
- 6/11/2012
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Being a fan of comic books is hard if you're female. Not only are any ovary-packing characters in the pages of comics often willfully objectified with absurd proportions and insanely skimpy costumes, but also they're often "fridged." [If you're unfamiliar with this term, educate yourself here.] Still, there'll always be Wonder Woman, who somehow sustains her integrity no matter how many ill-conceived makeovers are foisted upon her. So I find it personally thrilling that documentarian Kristy Guevara-Flanagan has used this legendary warrior princess as a jumping off point to explore the evolution of feminism in American society. In her latest documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, Guevara-Flanagan talks with TV's Wonder Woman Lynda Carter, The Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner, second-wave feminism icon Gloria Steinem, and third-wave feminist/punk rocker Kathleen Hanna about this comic icon's influence on the American zeitgeist over the past 70 years. And as the ...
- 3/7/2012
- cinemablend.com
This weekend, Peter and Bobby Farrelly direct the husbands-on-a-break comedy Hall Pass. We decided to look back on the movie that brought the Farrellys’ particular brand of feel-good gross-out humor into the American zeitgeist. There’s Something About Mary was the sleeper hit of 1998, spending most of the summer slowly rising higher on the box office top 10. It kickstarted the careers of stars Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller. But 12 years later, has the movie aged well?
Keith Staskiewicz: This movie really makes you realize that there is a big difference between being “offensive” and being truly offensive. Sure, there...
Keith Staskiewicz: This movie really makes you realize that there is a big difference between being “offensive” and being truly offensive. Sure, there...
- 2/26/2011
- by Darren Franich and Keith Staskiewicz
- EW.com - PopWatch
What do Prince William and Kate Middleton have in common with Justin Bieber? Like the teen sensation, the royal couple will be immortalized as comic book characters. Fame: The Royals will be released this April by Bluewater Productions, whose Fame series has also featured the stars of Twilight, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. What makes the couple worthy of their own comic book? "It's funny - they don't make movies, they don't score touchdowns and they don't write best sellers, but they seem to effortlessly capture the American zeitgeist," Bluewater Productions publisher Darren G. Davis tells People. "We don't have royalty...
- 1/19/2011
- by Rennie Dyball
- PEOPLE.com
Tina Fey currently writes and stars in one of the best sitcoms on television. So does Steve Carrell. Fey edges it having rescued Alec Baldwin’s career from the doldrums. We all knew he could act – just see his barnstorming cameo in Glengarry Glen Ross. He was funny in a frightening way. In 30 Rock, he’s “ha-ha” funny.
Fey and Carrell make an excellent on-screen couple in their brand new comedy, Date Night, directed by Shawn Levy. And it was on a rainy London afternoon that I was invited along to Claridge’s hotel in swish Mayfair for 30 minute press junket. These small press conferences are usually alright compared the utter surreal nature of international versions.
Director Shawn Levy quite literally bounds into the room like a Labrador and for a split second believed he was going to be deeply annoying and false. Turns out, he’s nothing of sort.
Fey and Carrell make an excellent on-screen couple in their brand new comedy, Date Night, directed by Shawn Levy. And it was on a rainy London afternoon that I was invited along to Claridge’s hotel in swish Mayfair for 30 minute press junket. These small press conferences are usually alright compared the utter surreal nature of international versions.
Director Shawn Levy quite literally bounds into the room like a Labrador and for a split second believed he was going to be deeply annoying and false. Turns out, he’s nothing of sort.
- 4/14/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
When in America, if you wish to describe something as bad, you can just call it 'European'. It's very useful
In a particularly good episode of the particularly good Us remake of The Office, Pam (American for Dawn) happens upon her boss Michael Scott (American for David Brent), standing in his office, naked. Michael affects glorious indignation and reaches for a defence that is very much of the American zeitgeist: "European offices are naked all the time."
Ah Europe! So louche! So permissive! So je ne sais quoi! No, really – je ne sais quoi the hell Europe is, because it seems to be many things to America, none of them particularly good. But it is useful, because should you find yourself in America and you wish to describe something as bad but don't quite have an argument to explain its badness, then you can just call it European". This...
In a particularly good episode of the particularly good Us remake of The Office, Pam (American for Dawn) happens upon her boss Michael Scott (American for David Brent), standing in his office, naked. Michael affects glorious indignation and reaches for a defence that is very much of the American zeitgeist: "European offices are naked all the time."
Ah Europe! So louche! So permissive! So je ne sais quoi! No, really – je ne sais quoi the hell Europe is, because it seems to be many things to America, none of them particularly good. But it is useful, because should you find yourself in America and you wish to describe something as bad but don't quite have an argument to explain its badness, then you can just call it European". This...
- 12/9/2009
- by Hadley Freeman
- The Guardian - Film News
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