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I don’t like children. I like them even less when they do things for attention and admiration. And when they perform in costumes to adult-themed songs, just forget about it.
Enjoy. Or not.
Portuguese Lady Gaga:

6 year-old Ke$ha

Parents? Where are you?

The most offensive part of my day is undoubtedly the 30 seconds I spend walking through the parade of advertising that is the 47-50th Street subway station. For the past few months the ads in this station have been exclusively for the little-seen and little-loved Spike-TV comedy “Blue Mountain State.” Most of them are offensive [...]

I owe Jay Leno an apology. For much of my life I’ve thought of him as a complacent old hack on the wrong side of history, with nothing better to do than spent his time telling humorless and mean-spirited jokes to an audience that thinks predictability breeds hilarity. I was making the cardinal sin of [...]

I like cheesy things, so it’s no surprise that I love the obnoxious, eyeroll-inducing sequel titles that go beyond sticking “2″ or another number behind it.
This morning I read about a sequel for Marky Mark’s”Four Brothers,” . Guess what they are calling it? “Five Brothers!” Or how about The Chipmunks’ “The Squeakquel?” It’s annoying but [...]

Readers, there are many times in life where you will find yourself presented with a total information overload. The next one minute and 49 seconds will be like that for you:

Where can we even begin to reckon with this? It’s best to start by eliminating the obvious. I’m not going to tread the well-worn path [...]

You know how Natalie Portman is the face of the ultimate indie-mainstream cross over. She’s cute, smart, vegetarian and a “serious actress”? Well, over the years I’ve liked her less and less. I can’t remember the last movie where it was her role that really made me like the movie. Can you?
But regardless of my [...]

Jim Emerson, editor of RogerEbert.com and proprietor of the wonderful film blog Scanners, has been re-uploading his video essays to a new server and in the process bringing them to my mind after a long absence. His best so far is this “free association dream sequence” from October 2007 centered around the theme of close-ups:

close-up [...]

As of now, Anna Kendrick is probably (well, definitely) best-known as that girl from the Twilight movies, you know, that one who doesn’t get a whole lot of screen time and is inexplicably overlooked by all of her male classmates in favor of Kristen Stewart’s listless Bella Swan.
But after December 25, when the funny-sad-smart George [...]

So this is my first post for BODB! I don’t intend on making it a regular thing but I felt a moral obligation to all fans of Degrassi: The Next Generation to warn them against continuing to watch the deformed beast this once great show has become.
Foremost on the list are the new characters they [...]

Space Invaders, a “beloved” arcade game is in the works of being made into a movie. The game has no plot. It involves shooting at alien looking things coming towards earth. This is not the first time the game has been adapted into something beyond the video game. It has been on t-shirts, in music [...]