Urban Honking

Last year, I read 43 books, a relatively high annual total for me. This was largely due to spending so much time that year working on a stop-motion animated music video which lead to a huge amount of audio book listening. This year, I read much less. The two main factors in this falloff were […]

I loved it! Wow. SO wished I had seen it in the theatre so as to catch the transformative CGI gleam in those monkey eyes. I almost cried when the lil monk was having a sad time of things because now that I am a mom any baby-thing suffering might as well be your baby. […]

Wow. I rented this film on impulse, having heard nothing about it, because the movie place attached to my gym was repping it really hard. Much like when I watched “In Bruges” because Netflix accidentally sent it to me, the extremely half-assed nature of my film choosing made it even more triumphant when “Hanna” turned […]

I would say I “liked” this movie but I never stopped thinking “I am watching a movie” and I was paying attention to the wrong details. Starting when Ewan MacGregor and his frenchy fun date drive over the curb in front of the apartment I used to live in when I lived in LA. Then […]

I finished House of Leaves. What a crazy book. I fucking loved this book. It’s really funny to read it as an academic, because of course in large part it is intended to be a parody of academia. It largely succeeds, and I admit I laughed ruefully a bunch of times. HOWEVER! I would say […]

I saw the last half of the trailer for Steve McQueen’s Shame before some other movie I saw (not Muppets) and my friend and I joked about how of course we are seeing a movie which appeared to be a movie where Michael Fassbender appears fully naked like, 18 times. EASY SELL, AMIRITE? The truth […]

Over brunch with my family we started brainstorming shitty movie titles. You know this spate of half-assed rom-com titles that just very baldly indicate what happens in the film, like “He’s Just Not that Into You” or “Ten Things I Hate About You” or “What Women Want” or “Get Over It” or “Something’s Gotta Give” […]

Lindy West fanpage mode, again, I know, but I really could not resist, not at all, where she reviews Twilight based on like, an US weekly special edition tribute to the movie: “Page 50: This is a very important page where we learn things about Taylor Lautner, a muscular child who middle-aged women enjoy masturbating […]

As the year draws slowly to a close and I find myself waking up earlier and earlier in some sort of sick perverted cycle I am helpless to stop, my mind turns to the films of yore that have made impressions upon my psyche as indelible as they are probably useless in terms of actual […]

Horrible Bosses is a sub-bromance buddy condundrum flick wherein three bros decide to help each other out by murdering each others Horrible Boss. For laffs, there is much playing against type, save for Bateman who is in default factory setting–ever the flustered professional. Jason Sudekis, playing against type, is a nice guy pussyhound that women […]