Movie reports

A stressed out guy on vacation with his girlfriend accidentally kills his brother and then things go downhill for the couple from there.  This one is a gruesome little comedy that isn't bad.  It has it's moments.  Tyler Labine is always good in roles like this, but Lucy Punch is wasted in this one.  It's on Netflix instant.

The political hacks in the corporate media love to tell us that George McGovern was a loser because of his loss to Nixon in the 1972 presidential election, but as usual, they're wrong.  McGovern was an upright moral man, perhaps too moral for the cesspool of politics that is Washington DC.  He was a war hero, a man who revived the Democratic party in his home state of South Dakota, and a man who lived his convictions.  He was against the war in Vietnam before it was politically popular and in his run for the White House in '72 he broke the grip of old white men who ran the Democratic party by opening it up to women, people of color, and gay folks.  Without his run in 1972 there would have been no Carter or Clinton presidencies and certainly no Obama administration.  If he'd been elected there would have been no Watergate, a quicker end to the quagmire that the was Vietnam war, and perhaps corruption wouldn't be so endemic in DC today.  This fine documentary tells the story of McGovern, the one the corporate media refused to tell for so long.  Considering that Nixon will be remembered for his crimes, for being the only POTUS to resign and leave office in disgrace, and for having many of his administration be led off in handcuffs, while McGovern's legacy of goodness and decency lives on to this day, I'd say McGovern was the real winner.  I highly recommend this documentary that's currently on Netflix Instant.

A guy in a small Aussie town on his way to a job interview gets sidetracked by bad people who do bad things to one another.  There's a bag of cash, a hot woman, a hot tempered sheriff, and a very bad guy who may or may not be in law enforcement all mixed up in this thriller.  I quite liked it and honestly, a naked Emma Booth is always a welcome sight in any film.  This one is on Netflix instant.

Think about it

If you want to show people that guns and assault rifles are safe and that not every gun owner is a murderous idiot one insult away from a mass shooting rampage, then walking around waving your guns at easily frightened people is not the way to do it.

The fact is the streets and people's homes are far safer when there are no guns around.

The problem is capitalism (part 2)

 My pretend Indian/American socialist girlfriend nails it. 

Bonus brunette of the week

Amy Acker.

The problem with the USA today is capitalism

Brunette of the week

Garbiñe Muguruza Blanco 

Why do you need your gun?

 "I need it to shoot those sexy little boys who might go and tattle on me."

 "I need mine to stop Obamacare in it's tracks.  No one is getting socialized medicine at my hospital.  I'll stop it with a second amendment remedy if I have to."

 "I don't need any guns as long as I have poutine, back bacon, and a hockey puck.  But I'll take one anyway, just to protect myself from those god damn stupid gun loving Americans."

 "I need my gun because I never know when I'll see a target that needs shooting.  And because everybody in America is packing heat."

 "Jesus.  The answer to this question, and to any other question for that matter, is Jesus."

 "Misogynists." 

"American capitalists will soon run out of workers to shoot.  I need a gun for when they come over here and start shooting at us and trying to take my borscht burger.  All hail Comrade Putin!" 

 "I need mine to compensate for my tiny penis and because I fear black folks, gay dudes who might try to turn me gay, atheists, women, Gypsies, and anybody else who isn't a white guy with cheesy facial hair."

 "I need my gun because it makes me feel safe despite the fact that if I didn't have it no one could get shot with it.  And why do you want to know anyways?  You some kind of gun hating liberal who wants to take our guns and force us to get gay married to Mexicans?  Because I won't stand for that shit...wait...hang on...can I choose the Mexican guy I have to gay marry?  Because if I can, then I'm totally cool with you having my gun if I can marry a hot dude, but don't tell my wife I said that shit okay?  Fuck man, I'm hammered.  I been drinking since noon yesterday and I just smoked some reefer cigarettes that had been soaked in Oxycontin."  

"We don't call them guns, we call them spirit shooters!  And we need them to shoot unpopular people at pep rallies."

Movie reports

 A young couple find a teapot that dispenses money every time someone gets hurt.  Much pain ensues.  Clever, though somewhat racist film, the teapot has a star of David on it and was mainly in Jewish hands throughout it's history, that's pretty well carried out.  I quite liked Juno Temple in this one.

 Words cannot express how much I love the concept behind the story of this film.  A situationist 'game' is hatched in the San Francisco/Oakland area and thousands of people get caught up in it.  Some take it too seriously, and some refuse to admit it's over when it ends, but every one who 'plays' it is hooked.  It's brilliant.  The film about it drags a it but overall it's fascinating.

Sorry, I can't be objective about Jennifer Lawrence.  I have such a huge crush on her, I'd love her in anything.  I loved the parts of the film she was in but the others not so much.  I haven't read the books  this series is based on, and won't ever, so I don't know if they did a good job in adapting them, but I know they did a great job in casting Ms. Lawrence.  Bottom line on this one is it's pretty good and very exciting, although it does remind me a lot of the Japanese film Battle Royale which came out in 2000.

How to tell if you're a disgusting little shit stain of a human being

• If you gun down innocent people because you're ashamed of the fact you're 22 and haven't had sex or even kissed a female yet, then you're a pathetic disgusting little shit stain of a human being.  And really, it's not that hard to get woman to have sex with you.  You could have gone the traditional route of being patient, which entails being a nice guy, befriending women, listening to them, making them laugh, proving to them you're trustworthy and a decent guy who isn't out to fuck them and then fuck them over.  Or you could have gone to a legal brothel in Nevada and gotten laid that way.  But little shit stains don't do that shit, they think they're above that and that women with supermodel good looks are just going to drop their panties and let little punks with guns and a huge sense of entitlement fuck them whenever they feel like it. 
• If you go on Fox or any other 'news' outlet and claim that a lonely little wuss who never got laid or kissed a girl and was mad enough about it to kill others over it and claim that he did it because he was afraid he might be gay and therefore the fault with this latest mass shooting rampage lies with the gay movement for being proud and out of the closet, then you're a shit stain on the underwear of humanity.
• If you have to constantly stick up for men by claiming that 'all men' aren't like that little boy who is behind the UCSB shootings, then you're a fucking idiot shit stain on the brain of humanity.  NO ONE is saying that all men are like him.  NO ONE is accusing you of being like him.  What women are saying, and rightly so I might add, is the people who do this type of crazy rage fueled murdering bullshit are always men.  

First aid or torture?

First aid illustrations always look sinister to me.  They look like someone is torturing someone else.

'Murica!

A future school shooter with her first gun.  Happy long weekend everybody!

Wanna hear a good one?

Sarah Palin said that President Obama was too lazy to investigate the VA 'scandal.'  Yes, you read that right, the woman who was too lazy to serve her full term as the governor of one of the least populated states in the union, called someone else lazy.

No shit.  She really did.

Free to a good home

Seen on a street near our house.  I have no idea if it's still there or not.

TV reports

How I missed this one when it first aired is beyond me.  It's right up my alley, it's British, it's got beautiful women, and it's period semi British class system based drama.  These three series tell the story of the ups and downs of the personal and professional lives of two sisters.  Left penniless by their recently deceased father the Elliot sisters go into business making dresses, slowly they build their business until they conquer their home country and the USA but there's always someone or something they must overcome.  It's all very entertaining if you like shows like Upstairs Downstairs, Downton Abbey, Duchess of Duke Street, and the like.  I found Louise Lombard to be mesmerizing.  If you like British period drama, this show is for you.

This one isn't bad but it's another of those good cop goes rogue and murders some guys to keep the streets safe dramas.  I'm just not into the 'ends justify the means' cop shows any more.  Murder is murder no matter how high minded the reasons.

Movie reports

This sequel to the Star Trek reboot is big, loud, and messy.  But it's still a lot of fun.  Kirk is a more than a bit of a stiff in this one but the rest of the cast make up for him.  Lots of special effects, explosions, and people fighting on moving vehicles and on high places.  Recommended.

 An apartheid era cop sees that his force is stretched thin keeping blacks down so he decides to see if he can get away with robbing a bank.  He does, and so he decides to rob some more.  Eventually they realize it's him, they catch him, and try and convict him.  But of course he busts out of prison and keeps on robbing banks until the South African government get sick of him making a mockery of them.  He escapes and gets gunned down in the good old USA.  It's all gritty, intense, and gripping but it's also glorifying a lawless thug who used the apartheid system to enrich himself and to commit robbery.  In the end I didn't like this one because they wanted me to like a repellent criminal, they wanted to make him seem like some kind of folk hero when in fact he was a weasel.  Good performances all around, especially by Deborah Kara Unger, in an unlikable film.

I don't give a shit if you don't like pro wrestling.  Turn your nose up at it, say it's 'fake.'  I don't give a shit.  It is, no matter what the intelligentsia try to say, a very hard form of performance art.  It combines storytelling with athleticism, and it's practitioners are some of the best actors in the world, it takes talent to get beat up and stay in character all the time.  Pro wrestlers suffer an inordinate amount of injuries and their careers are short due to the heavy workload and the dangerous moves they must do in their performances.  This film tells the story of a female wrestling show that came about during the wrestling boom of the early 1980's.  You can tell the women who were this league loved what they did and many of them clearly miss it.  This is a fascinating and sometimes heartbreaking film about them and the men who were behind the endeavor.  Highly recommended.

Heart to heart

"Billy, do you have a few minutes?  I'd like to talk to you about Communism."

Sunday hotness

I've looked at wigs from both sides now

The Johnson City (Hard right Republican) Press isn't fit to wipe your ass with

If you sent a letter to the editor of the Johnson City Press that said, "I hate what they are saying in the corporate media about President Obama, it's especially odious when they try to belittle him by saying he's gay." They'd edit to make it say, "I hate President Obama, he's gay."

How to tell if you're a horrible person

• If you claim that hashtag activism designed to help free the kidnapped Nigerian girls is actually a ruse to help their kidnappers, then you're a horrible person.
• If you say that Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton might not be helping to free the Nigerian girls if they knew the girls were Christians, then you're a horrible person.
• If you kidnapped a bunch of Nigerian girls and claim it's okay because some mythical religious deity told you to, then you're a horrible person.
• If you watched all seven rounds of the NFL draft just to see if Michael Sam got drafted and then you bitch about him getting drafted, then you're a horrible person.
• If you're more outraged by two consenting adults kissing than you are about kids in this country going to bed hungry and or abused, then you're a horrible person.

I love you too Jane

Isn't she the best!

Movie reports

Fascinating documentary about Tomi Ungerer who lived through the loss of his father at an early age, the Nazi occupation of his native France, and being blacklisted by puritanical busy body children's librarians.  Ungerer is a writer and prolific illustrator who specialized for many years in writing and illustrating somewhat subversive children's books.  He also did erotic illustrations and posters that were sharply critical of USA foreign policy.  Once the children's librarians found out he was drawing naked women enjoying themselves sexually, they blacklisted him and refused to buy and of his books for their libraries.  He moved to Canada, and then to Ireland, before he was 'forgotten' enough to come back.  It's a shame we let a few sex hating women dictate our morals.  Thank goodness Ungerer defied them and has come back into vogue.  He's a magnificent artist and storyteller.

A family that snitched on their former mob associates is in the witness protection program and living in France.  They can't seem to stay out of trouble.  While under protective care they get many people beat up, maimed, shot, and it's all deeply unfunny and very very off putting.  I didn't like this movie one iota, not even Michelle Pfeiffer's good looks could save it for me.  I was rooting for these cold blooded assholes to get gunned down but no such luck.  Yuck.  Unfunny, way too violent, and a waste of time.  It's sad these actors needed the money so bad that they stooped to do this shitty film.

How do you feel about openly gay Michael Sam getting drafted to play in the NFL?

 Hank Groink of Belle Plains, Oregon: "I'm cool with it.  It's not like he's going to bugger anyone during a game."

 Joe Figgins of Strawberry Plains, TN: "It's wonderful.  I'm so proud of him and that kiss, what a move!  And listen, anyone who says they support LGBTQ equality but who didn't like that kiss Sam laid on his cute little boyfriend, well, they're homophobes.  I want everyone to know that I'm so okay with it that I invited a gay dude in to my house and let him bang me in the butt in front of my wife to prove how okay I am with the whole thing.  Anyone who complains about that needs to be shot for not being open minded enough."

Pia Nolessons, High Plains Drifter, MT:  "I'm drafting him to play shortstop on my fantasy foosball team!"

Valentina Tereshkova, Somewhere in Outer Space: "Moscow, we have a problem."

 Calvin Broadhips, Middlesboro, KY: "I'm a Southern Baptist, so of course I have a problem with it.  I also have a problem with these apples, I'm sure the Prince of Lies is in them and the only way for me to get him out is to turn them into applesauce with my penis."

 Gail Keegals, Santa Fe, NM: "An openly gay man wants to play in the NFL?  Won't that ruin decades of stereotypes that say all gay men are lisping mincing limp wristed pansies who speak in a falsetto voice and live to dress in women's clothes while molesting children?"

 Auld Lane Sign, 19th Century Idaho: "Football?  Fuck some football.  It's not a sport, it's a game.  Getting greased up and wrestling a bear while naked, now that's a sport!" 

Geddy Leigh, Port St. Lucie FL: "I like cereal.  And that's it.  Just cereal.  Now leave me alone."