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Kula 2316's Morning Reaction: The Throw Heard Round The World

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As you will see in Kula's morning reaction, the world is all over the shoe incident. You can click at the top photo for the morning reaction ( until the middle of the day ), or just here.

The Cinema for 10/31/08: Seth Rogen Is Soon Becoming Another Will Ferell

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Photo from the movie, via the NY Daily News Seth Rogen, i know you want to cash in from "Knocked Up" and "SuperBad", but please stop. You are over-saturating yourself, and this is the second movie in a row, after Pineapple Express, where your original and funny crude humor now just isn't that funny anymore. Not a surprise most feel "ZAck and Miri" isn't that good : I have nothing against the cheerfully crude nature of "Zack and Miri Make a Porno." Before Judd Apatow, before "South Park," even before the Farrelly brothers, it was Smith's "Clerks" that exposed the delirious potential of shock value. But without the wit, raunchiness tends to feel uncomfortably forced. And the moments when "Z&M" works are, almost without exception, the ones that are more sweet than shocking. All the rest, frankly, feel like Apatow Lite. But knowing Rogen, he is trying to cash in as much as possible. And he is headed on t...

The Cinema for 10/24/08: The Asinine High School Musical Hits The Big Screen. Ugggggggggh

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(Photo from thecia.com) The always excellent columnist Elizabeth Weizman of the New York Daily News gets it perfectly right with her title to her review of this movie: 'High School Musical 3' is reliably cheesy It is only for the kids, and that's it. Hopefully, this movie won't have another installment on the big screen. It just needs to stay happily cheesy at happily cheesy Disney, where it belongs. (Photo from moviesmedia.ign.com) Meagan Good again lowers herself as an actress in another terrible role, in another terrible movie. And speaking of staying put, why in the hell is there another "Saw" movie out? There's already five of these things. Goodness gracious. Again, the excellent Weizman sums up how terrible the fifth installment is : It's time to acknowledge that killing off your lead is a major tactical error in an ongoing franchise. Next October, the filmmakers either need to figure out a way to bring Bell back for real, or stop torturing fans...

10/20/08- TWD's Agenda For the Day: The "Awesomeness" of the Awesome Jed Lewison; "The Read"

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(Photo from JedReport.com) Another integral part of the "rational online community" in America is a gentleman by the name of Jed Lewsion. Here's a quick bio from the Huffington Post about Jed: Jed Lewison covers politics and edits video for The Huffington Post. He's based in Las Vegas, NV, and was previously communications director for U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell and director of online marketing for RealNetworks. As you can see on "The Outstanding" site roll (on the right side of the page) that one of the links is "The JedReport," Lewison's site where he basically has all the major videos of the day, and in particular, the Presidential race for this year. This guy is unbelievable, and I'm trying to figure out how the hell he gets all these videos so fast? In fact, here's more about him, and his site . Maybe that will help me with answer (or an interview with him) : Although The Jed Report is relatively new, I've been active online ...

The Cinema for 10/17/08: "W" Getting Rave Reviews, And Hated By The Right Wing

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(Photo From www.nydailynews.com). Who needs to do a hit job when the man himself provides all the material to do one on himself. "W" is handled real well. The reviews are in. From every reputable newspaper and movie critic, "W" is one of the best movies of 2008 (unless you beg to differ). And showing how good it is (or bad, from your perspective of course), the right wing hates it. The New York Daily News' Joe Neumaier gives the movie a solid "four out of five stars" , and highlights the only problems in it from his review. Dreyfuss perfectly captures "Vice's" lumpen Mephistophelian stillness, and Jeffrey Wright makes Colin Powell's own deal with the Devil quietly shattering. James Cromwell's George H.W. Bush is bewildered and saddened by his son's missteps, Elizabeth Banks' Laura Bush checks her intelligence for politics, and Young's Rove is like a creepy alien cranium in search of a body. Less spot-on are Glenn's...