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I enjoyed this tidbit from BuddyTV’s report on former “Laguna Beach” (shouldn’t that be former star of the show Formerly Known as “Laguna Beach”) star Talan Torriero’s new starring role in the film “American High School”:

After Laguna Beach, he made several guest appearances on television and soon land roles in the horror feature Doing Time on the Set of Driftwood, Driftwood, and Through the Gauntlet: Inside the Walls of Driftwood.

That’s some hat trick!

Good news from HBO today as an undisclosed number of episodes of “Flight of the Conchords” have been picked up to be aired in 2008. The 12 episode first season was great, managing to quickly distance itself from “Tenacious D.” Personally I think they should have nixed the “Appearing tonight: The Flight of the Conchords” poster from the credits–didn’t “Tenacious D” have almost exactly the same thing, always beginning with Paul F. Thompkins introducing the band at open mic night? Anyway the point is Bret and Jemaine offer a lot more than JB and KG ever hoped to, although not in body mass. Boo ya!!! Watch a video performance of “The Humans Are Dead” after the break.

Continue reading More “Conchords” in 2008

I’ve never been much of a Union guy, and most of the time I view striking workers cynically. It’s not my most well-thought out opinion, it’s just one of those instinctual things. But I can get behind a WGA strike, if it means a slight chance of seeing “Battlestar Galactica” or “Project Runway” on NBC. Granted, since “BSG” is going away next year it would be more selfish than anything. Plus, it’s probably more likely that a strike would mean more reality game shows.

Read about the strike and its Canadian and cable implications in Variety here.

The Summer of 2007 has faded into memory leaving several disastrous blockbusters in its wake. I tried to see as many as I could but alas I am but one man. Anyway, here’s a rundown of the rest of this films I saw this past summer: Continue reading Summer Movies: Part Two

“Mac is a Serial Killer,” a new episode of FX’s “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is available on the MySpaces. Season two starts early, September 13 to be exact.

I know of only one other person on the face of the planet who also watches “Supernatural,” and he doesn’t read BLUE MAG. So the “Supernatural” category on this site is pretty much just a blog for me.

Hey Don, BuddyTV has the goods on the first 4 episodes of “Supernatural.”

Seven demons have crossed over altogether and the Winchesters will get a taste of what it is going to be like to clean up the mess…

Awesome!

The other day I saw the rather forgettable new comedy “Hot Rod.” In the background of one scene appeared the poster for the 80s sex comedy “The Whoopee Boys,” another forgettable movie. For some unfathomable reason this juxtopositioning of two forgettable films within each other like the renderings of a medium-talent Escher caused me to become obsessed with “The Whoopee Boys” and more importantly its director John Byrum.

Continue reading Whatever Happened to the Whoopee Boys?

This month Martin Scorsese’s “Raging Bull” is being re-released in England. This doesn’t mean much to us Yanks but fortunately it means a lot to some of the best critics writing for British publications.

David Thomson gives his take here in the Guardian.

And the Independent profiles Raging Bull co-screenwriter Paul Shrader.

Also: The above newspaper also has an interesting article about the apparent controversy surrounding Hayao Miyazaki (or what was supposed to be) new film

Perhaps I’m the only person who would get excited about director Martin Scorsese’s written tribute to Antonioni but these words are so good:

Where almost every other movie I’d seen wound things up, “L’Avventura” wound them down. The characters lacked either the will or the capacity for real self-awareness. They only had what passed for self-awareness, cloaking a flightiness and lethargy that was both childish and very real. And in the final scene, so desolate, so eloquent, one of the most haunting passages in all of cinema, Antonioni realized something extraordinary: the pain of simply being alive. And the mystery.

The rest of the NY Times article can be found here.

Good video here from “Superbad” viral marketing…

Continue reading What *does* it mean to be Superbad?