Jun 2008 26

Wanted

Posted In 2008

Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) reaches a breaking point amid his cubicle doldrums and smashes his ergonomic keyboard across a colleague’s jaw, dislodging keys, blood and teeth. As the bloodied bits slowly fly towards the screen, the keys laughably spell out “Fuck You.” It’s not a particularly poignant scene in Wanted, but it does embody the hyperbolic, [...]

Jun 2008 13

With the high from Iron Man starting to wane, fans are anxiously awaiting their next fix promised by Marvel’s second summer blockbuster in as many months, The Incredible Hulk. Add to that Ang Lee’s 2003 attempt to bring the “angry man” to the big screen, widely perceived as half-baked and too mellow, and you have quite a hunger [...]

Jun 2008 12

The Happening

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The Happening may not be a reboot of a previous storyline or character (ala The Incredible Hulk, also out this weekend), but it certainly aims to recharge M. Night Shyamalan’s career. Since the writer/director (and sometimes actor) crept into the public consciousness with the Sixth Sense back in 1999, his career hasn’t exactly gone skyward, save for the slight [...]

Jun 2008 07

We’re all familiar with the saying, “Cheaters never prosper.” That’s an adage easy enough to apply to taking tests in school, but not for taking anabolic steroids. On one hand, Olympians are stripped of their medals for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs, yet on the other, one of the most well-known users of steroids [...]

Jun 2008 06

Adam Sandler, certainly known for some grade-A ridiculousness and juvenile humor, has outdone himself in his latest, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan. With the typically less-than-funny Jewish-Palestinian hostility as a back story, Sandler, by way of heaps of hummus and a cantaloupe-sized crotch – which, by the way, given it’s prominence should have its own [...]

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