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Martin Landau

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George A Romero

 

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Flounder

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The Director of Fcuking ROCKY and THE KARATE KID!!!

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Chester Bennington

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he was Kohl as ice

Prodigy of Mobb Deep

Bill Dana/Jose Jimenez

Paddington bear creator

the only professional athlete to play for Major League Baseball and NBA championship team!!!!!!!

2 Live Crew’s Fresh Kid

Clockwork Orange editor

Red West

co-inventor of the ETHERnet!

Nelsan Ellis/Lafayette Reynolds

hall of fame sportscaster

that guy!

baby Oscar from Ghostbusters II

Rolling Stones muse Anita Pallenberg

did he ever find out who moved his cheese???

Afghan Whigs guitarist

Soviet spymaster

one of the five formidable Fendi sisters

Hollywood camera operator

self-cleaning home-maker

USA womens world cup champ coach

Ms who didn’t miss

imprisoned Chinese Nobel Laureate

he gave James Bond a lift

Prince drummer

Gretzky protector

the oldest of the 12 Hart (wrestling) family children

French composer who influenced the Futurama theme song

Graceland guitarist

Michael Nyqvist/Mikael Blomkvist

he lost 27 consecutive pitching starts!

Abscam investigator 

Grotbags the witch

a guy who was in one of the Harry Potters

some Italian actor

some Skippy actor

some character actor

a mathlete

49ers punter

ASU coach

Jets LB

Patriots QB

FIFA whistleblower 

voiceover guy

Walking Dead stuntman

Elsa Martinelli

some film distributor guy

60 Minuteser

NY reporter

Houston DJ

British film critic

Sun-Times graphic designer

Gloria Estefan’s mom

Stan Lee’s wife

niece and heiress to Greta Garbo fortune

DC food guy dies by food

Mets groundskeeper

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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
This Review Will Self-D-Suck In 5 Seconds
Official Website | Trailers & Mo
PG-13 | 133 min

Fourth time’s a charm, if you choose to accept it.  It’s true!  After 3 failed missions, Mission Impossible 4 is the best of the series, but that’s almos like saying that getting gonorrhea is better than getting cancer or AIDS!  Good work Brad Bird???  OK, so this movie is overly long, and loses any sort of steam it had steaming after Tom Cruise does that thing on that building in Dubai and then runs wild in a sandstorm, but it’s OK cause it’s all OK, instead of being beyond awful.  Even if Jeremy Renner feels out of place, and Anil Kapoor‘s appearance is pointless, and Simon Pegg‘s quips aren’t all that quippy, cause Michael Nyqvist is such a perfect scowling Euro-trashy baddie, like he was in Abduction, and Paula Patton is hot and even hotter when fighting Léa Seydoux!  OK! OK?  Sure!  Whatever!

Verdictgo: Jeepers Worth A Peepers

Mission is mos possibly playing at a theater near jews

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

Abduction
Wolfkid’s Got Nards
Official Website | Trailers & Mo
PG-13 | 106 min

There are bad movies that are juss flat out bad, and then there are bad movies that are fun cause they are bad.  Abduction is fun bad.  It’s a movie that is played out rather seriously, but no viewer would possibly be able to take it seriously.  And if you take it for what it’s not, you might end up enjoying it, like we did… somehow.  IT’S TRUE!

We’ve always been on team Jacob (Taylor Lautner), THIS IS ALSO IT’S TRUE!!!, but the Twilight movies never let him win.  In Abduction he’s finally the center of brooding attention, fighting the good cheesy fight, and even gets the girl in the end.  Plus, this girl (Lily Collins) is far better looking, far less annoying, and doesn’t pine for undead dudes who play vampire baseball at dusk like someone one we all know and don’t care about!!!

READ: KRISTEN STEWART IS THE TWIWÃœRST!!!

Abduction‘s got some quality out of place talent on board (Maria Bello, Jason Isaacs, Alfred Molina, Sigourney Weaver), something resembling decently-ish directed hot action action (John Singleton, who’s gone from examining gun violence, to becoming a gun for hire), and sum well needed Amtrak Pittsburgh Pirates love (they might juss have the best font in all of sports), but it’s all undermined by a bumblepooped script (by Shawn Christensen).  Hard to tell if it read better as a script than how it sounded in a film, but there’s no way lines like ‘I hate balloons‘ was ever going to make much of a pop.  And who hates balloons anyways, besides maybe the boy in the plastic bubble??

Still, the clunky dialog, and in & outnane story (enrypted names on a phone or something with the wolfkid‘s dad that’s like a secret dad, which somehow also deals with nightmares about home gas attacks in Paris from the past, or something) hactually helps to make this nonsensical sensicalnon consensual nonsexual conjob watchable

Biggest benefactor of the cruddy verbiage is Dragon Tattooer Michael Mikael Blomkvist Nyqvist.  This tired & grumpy looking Swede was born to play a generic Eastern European baddie, but hopefully he’ll get better baddies to play in the years to come, or perhaps star in remakes of Daniel Craig movies

This film is thighly recommended for people who love thick eyebrows.  Everyone else – eye-browse at your own risk

Reprised Possession: we were blind-sided by Phil Collins’ daughter Lily in The Blind Side, and she will forevermore be stroking us with her invisible touch

Verdictgo: can’t believe we’re typing this but Jeepers Kinda Sorta Worth A Peepers

Abduction is lost and found at a theater near jews today

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed, but team Jacob isn’t…

The Girl Who Kicked
The Hornet’s Nest
(Luftslottet Som Sprängdes)
I Love You, Lisbeth Cooper
Official Website | Trailers & Mo

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was Star Wars.  The Girl Who Played With Fire was The Empire Strikes Back.  And guess what?????  The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest is… Return of The Jedi!!!  And what does that mean?  Star Wars was an out of this world kickoff, Empire is the shiz, and Jedi, while not eggzactly close to being up to snuff with 1 & 2, is still a very satisfying final chapter of the trilogy.  OK, comparing anything to the Star Wars trilogy is purty darn dumb, but this is indeed Sweden’s Star Wars, cept more political, and with better dialog, but with less Sand People, but with more Swedish people!!!  Bless you Stieg Larsson, wherever you may roam!!

Director Daniel Alfredson picks up the action right where he left it with Fire.  [SPOILER ALERT!!!!  Do not continue reading if you haven’t seen any of the flicks, read the books, or are juss being super lazy and waiting for the Fincher film versions!!!] Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is an absolute physical and emotional mess after trying to kill her ruthless pops, while her half-monster/brother (Micke Spreitz) has escaped to the countryside!!!  So Lissy spends about half the movie on the sidelines, recuperating at a hospital, while the world around her is about to explode.  Her man Thursday, Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and his Millennium mag crew (with more attention and love given this time around to Lena Endre) are trying to blow open a story about government corruption that’s directly related to L’beth’s life, but of course the powers that be won’t let that happen, so they want to silence them and L’beth, but that aint gonna happen, cause she kicked a hornet’s nest!!!!  Actually she doesn’t kick much in this movie, especially not a hornet’s nest, but she’s gonna be put on trial for attempted murder, and her ex-psychiatrist (Anders Ahlbom) is a total prick and is totally out to get her, and things don’t look so good for her (do they ever???)!!!  Luckily L’beth’s got Blomkvit’s sister as her lawyer (Annika Hallin, finally given something to do), and two women together totally have more power than one!!!!!!  Especially when one rocks a power suit and the other a wicked mohawk!!!

That’s about all we’ll say, as you can probably figure out where it goes from here, but it aint eggzactly the slaying of the Emperor, the tearful death of Darth Vader, and the party to end all parties on Endor, all rolled into one solid ending.  Hactually, the very end ending was kinda like, whatevs dot whatevs.  Don’t know how it is in the book, but it wasn’t necessairly the mos perfect way to close the door, no?  Maybe Stieg had more shiz planned down the road, or maybe he didn’t, but he’s dead, and that sucks.  Wish that wasn’t the case, cause wethinks L’beth hacker pal Plague (Tomas Köhler) is ripe for a spin-off: The Fat Dude Who Ate Swedish Meatballs & Hacked People’s Computers To Deaths!!!

Cue Ballroom: Niklas Hjulström, who plays the prosecuting attorney, is totally on cue, with his own band Cue!!!

Verdictgo: Jeepers Worth A Peepers

Hornet kicks the trilogy goodbye this Friday in limited release

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

too many reviews to do this week, so lettuce do sum short & sweet ones…

The Girl Who Played With Fire
(Flickan Som Lekte Med Elden)
We Wouldn’t Care If She Were Playing With Poop,
Cause We’d Show Up To Watch Her Play With Anything!!!
Official Website | Trailers & Mo

Lisbeth Salander(/Noomi Rapace) is our hem flicka.  That’s ‘homegirl’ loosely translated into Swedish, which is the kind of fish you’ll be sleeping with if you don’t agree or don’t know what we’re talking bout.  If you saw (or read) The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo then yer a wise person already on the right track.  If you haven’t, stop reading this, start that and then come back and start reading this again.  Actually skip reading this and go see the mighty slow-burned AND high-octaned (AT THE SAME TIME!!) sequel The Girl Who Played With Fire.  It is The Empire Strikes Back to Tattoo‘s Star Wars, for many reasons, and most that we can’t talk about, but none involve lightsabers!!!!  Plus this new one has this dude named Micke Spreitz playing the Swedish version of Jaws from James Bond and he will not be stopped!!!  And even though Michael Nyqvist make us want to take Nyquil-vist, we still love him and root for him and wants him to bag the mosquitoed-chested Lisbeth over and over!!  Cause if he has a chance with her, we all do!!!  Can’t wait for the Hornet’s Nest!!!!!!!!  And then (no, not Zardoz) to see Fincher’s take on Stieg Larsson‘s matz!!!!

A Girl‘s Girl:  she may not have a fire… crotch, but our girl plays with the radiant Yasmine Garbi!!!

Verdictgo: Breast In Show

Jean-Michel Basquiat:
The Radiant Child
Not The SAMO© Shiz
Official Website | Trailers & Mo

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an artist.  You may have heard of him.  Julian Schnabel made his brilliant directorial debut with a film about him called… Basquiat.  Mike D’s wife and Billy Madison director Tamra Davis was friends with Jean-Michel.  She filmed him doing his art and once interviewed him talking about stuff AND things.  This interview sat untouched in her drawer for 20 years.  Cut to NOW!  And now she felt the time was right to make a doc about him, including this footage.  This doc is purty straightforward, but purty darn good, especially if you want to see what Fab Five Freddy looks like without sunglasses!!!! Basquait should not be confused with Bisquik

The SAMO© Shiz: photos of J-MB(and crew)’s early work in graffiti

Verdictgo:  Jeepers Worth A Peepers

Winter’s Bone
Haters of the Lost Ozarks
Official Website | Trailers & Mo

Jennifer Lawrence looks like Renee Smellweger, but acts betters than her in Debra Granik‘s Winter’s Bone, which is like Frozen River, but not as good cause most of Winter’s Bone is Lawrence asking the same question (‘you seen my daddy?‘ 32928282 times, and sometimes to the same person twice).  And sorta speaking of Melissa Leo, she could have played every role in Winter’s Bone, cept for maybe John Hawkes‘sszz, but maybe the two should mate and have children that could play white trash peoples to a T for future genetations!

Mad Fly: remember Ozark Air Lines? probably not, unless you ever flew to or outta the STL

Verdictgo: low end Jeepers Worth A Peepers

all three flicks are currently playing in limited release

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…