Author Archives: AaronOOF

I’m fluctuating right now as to whether or not I should go, as planned, to the Ted Leo show at the South Street Seaport this evening and brave the humidity and expected scattered thunderstorms. I’ve been looking forward to this show for a couple weeks, but I just don’t think I can handle being wetContinue reading “MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANY: BECAUSE IT’S JUST TOO HUMID FOR ANYTHING MORE IN-DEPTH”

So I don’t spend a lot any time blogging here about sports, but the fact is that I’m a pretty big fan, particularly of football and baseball, and especially of my San Francisco 49ers and San Francisco Giants. During football season, you can usually catch me going to a sports bar to watch every NinersContinue reading “WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM FOR … UHM … SPORTS”

We hare most definitely falling down the rabbit hole. Item 1 is terrifying; the rest belongs in the “Completely Unnecessary” files: I would say “They’ve got to be kidding,” but sadly I know they’re not. “A conservative group asked federal election officials on Thursday to investigate whether television ads for director Michael Moore’s anti-Bush documentaryContinue reading “MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANY: NO NO NO NO NO … THROW LOGIC OUT THE WINDOW”

Ads before the previews at the movies have become ridiculous. With 10-15 minutes of coming attractions already playing before the film you actually paid to see, 5-10 minutes of TV-style commercials seem to do nothing but annoy audiences anymore. I know that I have decided to try to specifically not purchase anything sold to meContinue reading “DON’T YOU … WANT TO … KILL THE FANTA GIRLS”

Not that Maxim or Stuff actually encourage reading, but they are printed matter and do include words. Now I’m not knocking Dennis Publishing; they also publish the great music mag Blender as well as my favorite weekly news and media digest, The Week. But I get the feeling that their new film shingle, as reportedContinue reading “MAXIM MOVIES: BECAUSE WHO NEEDS TO READ”

It may be Fahrenheit 9/11 day here in New York, but the most interesting news on the front page of Variety (sub req’d) has to be that HBO Films plans to produce “an original period tuner starring OutKast’s Andre 3000 and Big Boi.” For the Variety-lingo-challenged out there, that basically means a full-on singin’-n-dancin’ musical,Continue reading “HEY YA! HBO IS FOR EVERYDAY PEOPLE”

It looks like the kids won’t get to see Fahrenheit 9/11 without some adult supervision. Backers of documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 failed to overturn its R rating on Tuesday, restricting young American moviegoers from seeing its critical look at President Bush and horrific images of the war in Iraq. I don’t need to rant on thisContinue reading “THE REQUISITE FAHRENHEIT 9/11-OPENS-TODAY-BUT-IS-TOO-HOT-FOR-TEENS POST”

Deeply buried (if mentioned at all) in all the stories focusing on Dodgeball‘s trouncing of The Terminal in the weekend box office race was the even more delightful news that The Passion of the Christ can no longer claim to be the top grossing movie of 2004. It just so happens that our big greenContinue reading “MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANY: THE PASSION OF THE OGRE”

I read two different sequel-related reports today (one which I had heard weeks if not months ago, but apparently it’s news again). In the best-case scenarios, they could both be phenomenal films. Thinking more realistically, they’ll suck and simply lessen how people think of the originals, much as has happened in some sense to TheContinue reading “THE BEST POTENTIALLY BAD NEWS”

I can rant on-and-on about A.O. Scott’s pathetic writing and never encapsulate how poor a critic he actually is as well as TMFTML does right here. Oh no … he doesn’t need my blogfucking, but it’s worth clicking the link. Using the beginning of Scott’s review of The Terminal, he succinctly proves what I’ve beenContinue reading “IF ONLY HE WERE THE PERMANENT CHIEF FILM CRITIC FOR THE TIMES“