Posted in Films, Other, tagged House by the Cemetary, Lucio Fulci on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Harlequins and mimes are fine. But Clowns? No way. Pas du tout. Niet. Nyet.
I was browsing the boards at IMDB’s entry for Lucio Fulci’s film The House by the Cemetery (1981) and came across a link to this blog called KinderTrauma. It’s a scream. It’s brilliant. What better way to overcome those panic attacks and [...]
Posted in Films, Other sports, tagged Get Smart, hockey, LA Kings, Love Guru, Toronto Maple Leafs on June 22, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I watched Get Smart (Peter Segal, 200eight) and The Love Guru (Marco Schnabel, 200eight) over the weekend. I reviewed the latter for Filmthreat. Before I get to the Mike Myers bit, I’ll share some thoughts on the Steve-Hathaway snips.
I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. I’m aware that [...]
Posted in Films, Football, tagged Buffalo Bills, Doug Flutie, New York Giants, Second String, TNT on June 17, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s almost the end of regular football season and you’re the Buffalo Bills. You’ve just beaten the New York Giants 23 to 19 (probably) and are heading to the play-offs. To give the starting offense–especially quarterback Doug Flutie–low-impact to no-impact practices before (and possibly between) play-off games, you bring in a near-former NFL [...]
Posted in Films, Other, tagged Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, M. Night Shyamalan, Mark Wahlberg, Never Back Down, The Happening, The Incredible Hulk, Zooey Deschanel on June 15, 2008 | No Comments »
I saw The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan, 200eight) and The Incredible Hulk (Louis Leterrier, 200eight) on Friday and Saturday respectively. I reviewed the former for Filmthreat. It’s not a very long piece, so I’m copying and pasting it below. I gave it three out of five stars:
Minor spoilage!
In a virtually packed AMC [...]
Posted in Films, Other sports, tagged Jim McKay, Olympic games on June 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Une autre jour triste.
Tapped from Yahoo Sports:
Click here for the full picture.
Click here to read the rest of the article.
Click here to see an interview with Jim McKay where he talks about covering Olympic games from the 60s and on.
Posted in Films, Football, Other, tagged Allan Graf, Dreamworks, Ernie Davis, Jack Black, Kungfu Panda, Syracuse University, The Express on June 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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I watched Kungfu Panda (Mark Osborne & John Stevenson, 200eight) today. This Dreamworks Animation platter was superbly done on all levels: music, animation, script, voice-overing.
I thought it was pretty clever to have some of the main characters’ names be the Chinese (Mandarin pronunciation) word for that particular role or animal. For example, [...]
Posted in Basketball, Films, Other sports, tagged Detroit Redwings, golf, hockey, Pittsburgh Penguins, Tiger Woods on June 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Mr. Green Lawns and Motorized Carts and his misinformed (or mal-formed) perception of the popularity of hockey.
Click here for the Yahoo Sports story.
Speaking of the frozen cousin of futbol (with more equipment and propensity for increased amount of dental work), click here for a Yahoo Sports story (and highlights) on the recent nose-to-kneecap goings on [...]
Posted in Films, tagged BBC, Genghis Khan, Mongol, Sergei Bodrov, Tarsem Singh, the History Channel on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
I watched Tarsem Singh’s newest cinematic sparkle, The Fall (2006), last week. One of the previews was a movie called The Mongol (Sergei Bodrov, 2007), which is about Genghis Khan’s early life.
Click here for The Fall trailer.
Nevermind that Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano is playing the main character; nevermind that Japanese actor Takashi Sorimachi has [...]
Posted in Films, Football, Other sports, tagged Adam Sandler, Longest Yard, Necessary Roughness, Second String, Sports Night, Waterboy, Wildcats, Youngblood on May 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sitting Pugs will be celebrating its one year of existence on June Seventh. I had fully planned to include a gondola-full of entries on sports movies. Alas, poor Yorick, I’ve had to go back to the optometrist to get my left eye re-tested. I had to return one set of frames too–they weren’t comfortable. I [...]
Posted in Films, Football, Other, tagged George Clooney, Leatherheads, sydney pollack on May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Producer, actor, and director Sydney Pollack has been fighting cancer for nearly a year and is now on to a separate peace.
With George Clooney on the set of Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007).
Pollack was one of the executive producers of Leatherheads.
He did good work. His creativity will be missed. View more about him here, here, [...]
