So here we are in the official Hollywood hangover week. The Oscars are a thing of the past. Slumdog brought home the bacon. Mickey Rourke didn’t get to give a wacky acceptance speech. Hugh Jackman was praised for doing less than anyone else had in the past. We have only two non-reviewed movies rel...

Song, Dance, and Commendation: Turning the 2009 Oscars into a Television Event When the Academy Awards brought on a set of new producers, there was the usual buzzwords: on time! Big surprises! Excitement! On time! Thrilling! And yet, we all doubted that it could live up to the expectation, especiall...

I know, ladies. I understand the grand conspiracy - you don’t really give a crap about Valentine’s Day. You don’t care about the schmoopy, lovey-dovey stuff. You don’t care about the stuffed animal with a heart that you’ll probably hide in a closet somewhere or donate t...

Trivia Time! It's been 180 years since an Act of the British Parliament allowed for the building of mental asylums. The first ever built was the 1st Middlesex County Asylum in West London which opened its doors in 1831. The British invented insane asylums! Who knew? And yet it all makes sense... 177...

woke up today with a raging headache. much worse than the past two days. the kind of pain that pain pills just bounce off of. the kind of pain so bad you can't sleep or sit still. so obviously i called off again. consecutive days count as one occurance so whatever. i'm off tomorrow, have an intervie...

Pens lost again last night.I called off sick again today.I wanted Mamma Mia again today.I continue to be ignored....

First let me get out of the way that I happen to be an ABBA fan. Okay I said it. I know not many people say that out loud, but for this review I have to say it and be done with it. For those not in the know ABBA was a Swedish band that had many hits during the 70's and early 80's. ABBA gained immens...

We're not really sure why this is happening (other than these people being weird), but Mamma Mia! is huuuge in the UK. Like, top-grossing film of all time. Beats Titanic, even. That's what we read today and we, while not being judgy, are a bit WTF about it. £69 million and counting! The film, despi...

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Believe it or not, between all those wall-to-wall Abba songs in Mamma Mia!, there is a plot, of sorts. A teen daughter (Amanda Seyfried) reads the diary of her mother (Meryl Streep) and discovers that not one but three men (Stellan Skarsgard, Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan) had intimate relations wi...