This year’s Connecticut Film Festival starts Friday, Dec. 5 at Bethel Cinema.
I know some of you are thinking “Wait a second. Wasn’t the Connecticut Film Festival held earlier this year in Danbury? Isn’t that how this blog, the most widely-read movie blog between 330 and 333 Main St., began?”
The answer is yes, the film festival [...]
CT Film Fest Kicks Off Dec. 5
Captain Kirk Vs Sulu
William Shatner and George Takei hate each other.
In this video, Shatner brags about being so darn enlightened.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAeLFjNCb3A]
POLICE OF ROCKS? YOU MORON!
Uw ga . . . I was just falling into the sewage, uh, I mean reader comment section of our Web site where I learned I wrote that a driver, apparently asleep at the wheel, drove into a “police of rocks.”
I was groggy as all get out when I wrote that story (and my two [...]
Reel Quick Reviews
Reel quick, get it?
“THE STRANGERS” Pretty sick, unrelenting horror movie about young couple terrorized by quiet people in creepy masks. I was surprised how disturbing it was. See it, if you’re into that sorta thing.
“WALL-E” Pretty sick, unrelenting Pixar crap about . . . Nah, I’m just yankin’ your chain. Wall-E is a heart-warming little [...]
Random Thoughts
1. DIE SQUIRRELS!
That is Afrikaan for “the squirrel.”
People are still talking/or we’re just running letters about the fact I used the phrase “fried squirrel” to describe a CL&P substation vs. squirrel incident in Danbury a few weeks back.
No one seems to remember I also described squirrels as “our furry friends.”
The “how to describe dead squirrel [...]
Very Weird Jean Claude Van Damme Interview
From Newsweek.com:
VAN DAMME: “I really opened myself up in “JCVD.” I peeled back the skin of the fruit, cut the pulp and then took that very hard seed. In this film I cut that hard seed, and inside that seed was a kind of liquid cream substance of the man I am, or the woman [...]
Greatest Ending Of All Time
For my money, probably the best 10 minutes on celluloid, period.
The conclusion of “On the Waterfront,” (directed by Newtown’s own Elia Kazan) has finally made it to YouTube.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwVv-mAR_eo]
SOUTH PARK May Conclude With Filmed Finale
From the LA Times:
“South Park” co-creator and executive producer Trey Parker says they’ve been discussing how to end the Comedy Central flagship series. . . It looks like the final hurrah will come in theaters.
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Newspapers Feel Like The 1986 Red Sox
Is there anything more depressing at the moment right now than the constant stream of doom and gloom over the state of the newspaper industry?
OK, maybe I have a bias.
The Courant’s Rick Green is writing a column about the Journal Register Co.’s woes in Connecticut.
Green interviewed Steve Collins, a veteran reporter at The Bristol Press, [...]
Because We Need To Hear This
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