Alright I suck

Luckily I don't have any regular readers. I watched the Oscars. The show itself sucked but the winners were good. Yeah Slumdog Millionaire and Sean Penn. I've been pretty good at viewing most of the winners except Benjamin Button which I hear is Forrest Gump redux, oy vey. We have Frozen River coming soon which I hear is excellent.

In good news, the Philly fest is back on so hopefully I'll be working some shifts but who knows this year with everything being so late. Will update more later.

Waah

So I've been neglecting the blog. What can I tell you, I have personal things going on. But I promise to write more as I miss it. Plus hello, the Academy Awards are in two weeks! I'm off to see the Reader and then it's only The Curious Case of Benjamin Button that I have left to see for the best picture nods.

So far, I've seen lots of movies and I'm not ready to speculate quite yet as to what I want to win. I'll do in the next two weeks.

V returning, really?

I read this story about V returning to the small screen. Did we really need to see a revamped version? Well I guess everything 80s is new again with Knight Rider coming back (ugh.) Don't think I haven't been pop cultured out. I've been trying to catch up on all my favorite T.V. shows. Ugly Betty and CSI were particularly good this week.

Finally, let's go Phillies. We're this close to the World Series. Do you believe?

Woo Hoo

Let's Go Phillies! I have to shut the T.V. off and finish my book club book but really, awesome game. It's nice to see Philadelphia have some kind of hope in these troubling times. In other thoughts, House is not as good this season but Dexter is better. Project Runway needs to get rid of annoying Kinley. O.k. enough random thoughts.

O.k. one more - don't forget to register to vote.

Emmys are tonight!

I hope that Mad Men and Damages win a bunch of awards. My other hopefuls:

Michael C. Hall for Dexter (although last season wasn't as good as the first season) or Hugh Laurie for House.

America Ferrera for Ugly Betty.

Go Kathy Griffin for outstanding comedy special and My Life On the D-List. Why haven't I seen her live yet? Oh right, she's always in Atlantic City and no one I know likes her (plus I don't drive:)

Top Chef for outstanding Reality Competition Series.

Haxan amongst other things

Hum, how to describe Haxan. A 1921 "documentary" about witchcraft. For some reason, they have the real inquisition and general witch torture stuff in this film. Those Swedes/ Danish filmmakers can be very odd. Very dry but beautifully realized, not a film for everyone.

I give this 3 out of 5 devil butt kisses.

Hairspray

I'm not really a musical past 1970 kind of gal but Hairspray isn't bad. Nikki Blonsky was excellent as Tracy Turnblad, a Baltimore teen who sings about wanting to change the world and get on the dance hit, The Corney Collins Show. The music is enjoyable and the plot pretty consistent with the original movie (although I still prefer the cynical 1980s John Waters' classic.) Queen Latifah is great as Motormouth Maybelle. Michelle Pfeiffer did an admirable job as the evil Velma Von Tussle as did Britney Snow as her prissy daughter Amber. James Marsden was really cast well for the Collins part and Amanda Bynes wasn't terrible as the best friend. I thought John Travolta was trying too hard as Tracy's mother but I do give him credit for dancing in a fat suit. My question is, what is the big effing deal about Zac Effron. Yeah, he's cute but blah. Overall the film could have been cut by a good 15 minutes but it was a good 4th of July distraction.

I'm giving this 3 out of 5 Hons.