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Tuesday
09Mar2010

The Literary Event of the Spring

Posted on DateTuesday, March 9, 2010 at 12:49PM | by AuthorEdward Michalik | |

Seth Grahame-Smith is sitting pretty: the movie rights for his mashup extraordinaire, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009), have been sold; A-lister Natalie Portman is set to star as Elizabeth Bennett in the film adaptation. Even Time magazine literary critic Lev Grossman is warbling about Grahame-Smith, describing the erstwhile free lancer, whose new pot boiler,  Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, just dropped, as a “lively, fluent writer with a sharp sense of tone and pace.”  

Check out the video ad for ALVH. It’s slick. Grand Central Publishing sank some serious coin into this promo; they’re banking on the book and the author. Right now it’s good to be Seth.

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Monday
22Feb2010

Pretty in Pink

Posted on DateMonday, February 22, 2010 at 1:28PM | by AuthorEdward Michalik | |

What if you were to take the Fuhrer and glam him up? Photoshop him to look like a line dancer in a Lady Gaga or Pet Shop Boys video. Would he be any less frightening? I’m not sure how to react to this image of Hitler. It makes me want to chuckle at his expense. Then I catch myself: some subjects are just notfunny. This vamped-up Hitler does make you do a double take, though.  Seeing the Monster puffed up in pink creates cognitive dissonance, enough at least in my case to dissolve this reification of Evil. Briefly.

Props: Culture Vulture

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Thursday
18Feb2010

Megan Fox does Armani

Posted on DateThursday, February 18, 2010 at 11:50AM | by AuthorEdward Michalik | |

An alternative title for this post: “A Shameless Way to Boost Traffic to a Blog.” You gotta admit, though, Megan Fox be lookin’ fine.

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Thursday
18Feb2010

She Puts the S in Sultry

Posted on DateThursday, February 18, 2010 at 9:55AM | by AuthorEdward Michalik | |

That’s what chanteuse Jill Barber does in this scorching blues-n-swing number, “Oh, My, My.” Video director Jonathan Bensimon takes this choice cut from Barber’s award winning disc Chances  (2008) and sets it at the  Alpine Hotel,  a dive located just behind the back lot of the Coen Brothers’ Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). Or is it down on Dylan’s Highway 61 (1965)? Wherever. It’s the perfect place for a gal carrying a torch to die from a broken heart.  

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Wednesday
17Feb2010

And the Best Picture Goes to ...

Posted on DateWednesday, February 17, 2010 at 1:15PM | by AuthorEdward Michalik | |

With its seamless integration of 3D, Avatar is the herald of a new kind of movie making. But it’s not the best picture of 2009. Its plot is predictable, its politics progressive boilerplate (the script reads like a Huffington Post blog). Among the Oscar Best Picture nominees, it’s middle of the pack at best. Precious, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Up in the Air, A Serious Man—even a so-called small film like An Education—are richer fare. My guess, though, is that Avatar will take home the Best Picture statuette. For two reasons: its spectacle, which is impressive, and its Hollywood politics, which are not.

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