Mike Judge made Beavis & Butthead, Office space and Idiocracy, but you wouldn’t know that he also wrote and directed the new movie Extract.
To say “some of the comedy appeared to be extracted from Extract” would be the type of corny joke you’d hear in Extract,
but not here on da Dominion.
Other points …
One of the main issues that kept me from getting into Grey’s Anatomy – besides not having a vagina – was the complete absence of astronauts.
Now, ABC gives us Defying Gravity (DG): Grey’s Anatomy in spaaaaaace!
Peter Jackson’s new movie ain’t about hobbits on a long walk. District 9 is an Alien Nation story filmed like Children of Men with themes similar to Amistad or Schindler’s list.
Based on your enjoyment of those films, you could judge for yourself … or allow me to elaborate.
A big plus of coming of age is that Hollywood can draw you in to see new flicks based on your childhood favorites. The downfall is having your initial hopes dashed as they completely “reimagine” the story, effectively murdering fond memories.
You’ve probably caught the trailers of Harold Ramis’s historical comedy Year One, starring Jack Black and Michael Cera, and thought it was a bit lame.
Good news: you’re not as right as you think.
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Last Friday many of you comic nerds flocked to the theatre to check out what you hoped to be the restoration of the X-Men franchise after it’s weakest chapter X-Men: The Last Stand. After a few years of throwing shit at Brett Ratner, director of X3, it’s nice to have a new target of geek ire for target practice – the director of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.