Adventures of Joe Dirt
Someone Like YouTwo 1/2 StarsMen are cows.According to the latest gal flick "Someone Like You," we are not the predecessors of animals that oink or bark, but instead comparable to the same lazy slabs of beef that mainly graze and sleep in their own feces.Luckily, the movie did not moo-tivate me to yell back at the screen to defend all masculine beings of the universe, but it did stop short of what could have been an adequately original yarn of the differences between the two sexes.Jane Goodall, which was wisely referred to within the movie as a funny name
Say It Isn't So1 1/2 StarsWho says comedy is easy?When you have the ability to make fun of stroke victims, homosexuals, incest, people with artificial limbs and cows, funny just comes naturally, right?Wrong, and in the newest bummer produced, but not directed by those darn Farrelly Brothers, funny only comes few and far between.Director J.B.
Forget playing your music in front of thousands of adoring fans. Just give the Donnas a Waffle House and they'll be happy."We're big fans of Waffle House," said Allison Robertson (otherwise known as Donna R.). "That's why I'm really excited about the tour, because there's lots and lots of Waffle Houses everywhere."Kidding aside, being on the road Willie Nelson-style is the life for the Donnas, a foursome of gals that come across as Hole crossed with '70s girl group The Rascals.
Monkeybone1/2 StarI've never smoked crack.But I realize, after taking a good 90 minutes of weekend time that could have otherwise been spent studying for midterms, anyone involved in subjecting me to "Monkeybone" must have been on it, big time.More "Fritz the Cat" than Disney, "Monkeybone" is a HUGE waste of a talented array of Hollywood whatnots whom I used to respect. It's not a movie that you would just watch for fun, or my idea of fun. It's not even drink-a-few-beers-with-your-buds fun.
We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us."This quote, taken from a marvelous little movie by Paul Thomas Anderson called "Magnolia," kept popping into my head as I listened to the newest radio station to emerge in my hometown: a 24-hour all-'80s music leviathan of nostalgia.How is it that we just barely get the 1990s behind us, and now suddenly the not-too-distant prior decade has become hip?
