Julianne Moore’s Out-Of-Body ’80s Commercial Experience
One night, Blindness star Julianne Moore woke up at 3am and felt something cold on her shoulder. It was the ceiling, and she was staring down at her own body. After making this 1988 commercial for the...
View ArticleSavage Grace: More Like Savage Gross
IFC films released this new trailer for its Julianne Moore Oscar-bait incest biopic just in time for Mother’s Day. Savage Grace is the famous true story of a socialite named Barbara Daly Baekeland,...
View ArticleSometimes A Vampire Is Not Just A Vampire (Not That The Blind Community Are...
The novelist José Saramago won the Nobel Prize in 1998 following the publication of his book Blindness, which has just been adapted into a movie starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo. It’s...
View ArticleWhere Is The Blind Community’s Protest Against The Blindness Viral Web Campaign?
Last week members of the blind community announced that they would be boycotting the movie Blindness (although how you boycott a movie no one cares about, I DON’T KNOW) because they thought that it...
View Article“The Ballad Of G.I. Joe” Is As Star-Studded As It Is Funny
We’re going to need a new name for whatever it is that Funny or Die does. At first it seemed like they were going to be a farming house for funny new viral videos, but that’s barely even the case...
View ArticleThe Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: The Forgotten
Look, screenwriters, I get it. Your job is to sit around all day in your dirty bathrobes coming up with hackneyed premises to temporarily distract our stupid faces. Fair enough. Everyone has to put...
View ArticleThe Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Blindness
The novel Blindness, by Jose Saramago, was published in Portuguese in 1995 and translated into English in 1997. Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature one year later, in 1998, in no small...
View ArticleBeing Gay White Is Hard: The Kids Are All Right
It’s gay life, jump into gay life. The Kids Are All Right trailer, you guys: No homo, but this looks pretty good! It’s like Noah Baumbach without all the boring stuff to prove. (We get it, Noah...
View ArticleCrazy, Stupid, Love Trailer, You Guys
Well, I will say the same thing I said when the How Do You Know trailer came out: “I actually like romantic comedies, the problem is just that to so many of them are terrible, but I hope this one is...
View ArticleHey, Did You Guys Watch Game Change?
Over the weekend, HBO premiered Game Change, a movie based on the book of the same name by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, which begins in 2008 at the decision to have Sarah Palin as John McCain’s...
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