Buy Or Don’t Buy

Most successful actors fall into a niche: George Clooney playing the charmer; Clint Eastwood playing the tough guy; Clive Owen playing Clive Owen. In a world as competitive as Hollywood, you’ve gotta stick with what works.
And yet, take a look at what James McAvoy has portrayed so far in his relatively short career:

When I was in London last semester, my roommate and I tried to experience the local colour by watching as many British viral videos as we could. Kersal Massive was always good for a laugh and everyone loves Old Gregg, but no video inspired as much after-the-fact quoting as this one:

Maybe it was our latent [...]

When I told a friend of mine that I was thinking about writing about RDJ, her response was “too easy”. Well duh. He’s a movie star that I actually like. He combines the right amount of edginess, skill and humor to the rolls he plays. The last few movies I saw him in he continued [...]

The sociopathic nihilist values neither human lives nor any of the constructions that society has to offer him. (Notably, this insane person is usually a “him” and not a “her”). From Psycho to Hannibal Lecter to Heath Ledger’s latest portrayal of The Joker, these uninstitutionalized nuts have been trying to find their place in Hollywood [...]

Wordpress provides a few basic stats, like how many page views we get per post and how people found our site (through referrers and search terms).
Well, one consistent search term has been gracing us with page views. Susan Roesgen. Either her name comes up, or the phrase “photos of susan roesgen”. I’ve never heard of [...]

I’m willing to bet that I am the only writer here at BODB who would actually go see Mamma Mia, much less enjoy it.  Yeah: I’ve seen the stage show twice.  It never stops being dumb, but it also never stops being really, really fun.

Hence Mamma Mia is absolutely a love-it-or-hate-it kinda movie.  For fans of the [...]

In an age of rampant personalization, there’s something to be said for shared experiences. Movies are readily available for home-viewing on a television or computer, and television itself has become so segmented that there will never be another M*A*S*H (105 million people watched its series finale in 1983!)

In this quest for ultimate convenience, something [...]

Earlier this year there was a buzz growing around about a live-action version of Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are.” It’s a children’s book. And I was basically raised on that book. It’s about a little boy who is grounded and while he is in his room, he imagines he is in this land [...]

Duh. The movie was fantastic! It had everything needed for a great film. It had plot, great characters, some action and even some humor. My complaints? There were a few holes in there that were not big enough to take me out of the story, along with some similarities to the ending of Spiderman 2, [...]

Disclaimer: This is not what AAA used to tow our car
To make a long story short, last night I was driving through downtown D.C. to pick up a friend from the airport when her car’s brakes failed.  As in, I could not stop the car.  (My reaction was, I’m told, similar to my reaction “when something [...]