Derren Brown, the British mind magician and all around annoying show off, has wowed the slackjawed public with his latest special, Hero at 30,000 feet, in which he takes a bad actor an average guy and turns him into a hero… at 30,000 feet (this is achieved with a plane in case you haven’t yet realised it).
Now, I’m not one to nit-pick (not true, I really am), but I had a bone to pick with this show. Most people will tell you that it was all staged and that it was done with split screen technology or something equally annoying, but that wasn’t the problem.
The problem was… Derren Brown appears to have just made a mockumentary version of Donnie Darko. Read More >>>
Long-distance relationships don’t work – everyone knows that.
I had one once, it was a lot of hassle, too much travel and involved not nearly enough nookie. And nobody is worth that? Or are they?
It begs the inevitable question: How far would you travel just to see the woman/ man of your dreams? Down the street? To the ends of the earth? Croydon? Personally, if it is any longer than two tubes and a short bus ride, I am making other plans.
But then I am neither Drew Barrymore, who plays Erin, an aspiring journalist, nor Justin Long, a music promoter called Garrett.
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Given the high abundance of adolescent pseudo-intellectual gobbledegook that seeps from the jaws of Ellen Page’s Juno in the Oscar-winning movie of the same name, it’s hard to view her with anything but sheer barbaric contempt.
While she hardly shows much range beyond indie-grunge smarty-pants, at least in Whip It she appears likeable. Well, likeable in as much as we didn’t want to choke her on her obvious collection of Dawson’s Creek spin-off novellas.
Whip It, while still neck high in offbeat comedy and teen ideals, proves to beat Juno at its heart, making for a more relatable coming-of-age story. Oh, and features more girl power than one Geri Halliwell’s padded bras from the ‘90s.
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Trends – they’re really cyclical. A couple of years ago, were you to go for a wander wearing a beret and red trousers that perfectly contoured the exact definition of your groin, everyone would think that you were a weirdo. Not now though. You’d be just another guy in beret and jeans, having a bit of a stroll.
And, of course, the clever ones know to hang onto these garments, even when they no longer feature on the cutting edge. They shall rise again. They always do. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but one day… and for a bit of the rest of your life.
Anyway, the point being that – thanks to a new Drew Barrymore film – roller skating looks all set to soar again, as it once did in the 1970s and 1980s. Hence, we thought it high time to leap directly onto the bandwagon early doors, and after the jump there are ten wonderful roller skating videos that you can show to your friends, as you explain that, really, you’ve always been into it… Read More >>>
Here’s one (not) made earlier.
In a movie industry dominated by action hero sequels, re-makes and Judd Apatow productions, there sometimes comes a long a comedy that truly is the cream on top of the cake.
Whip It follows Bliss Cavendar, an unhappy teen trapped in her small Texan town, until she discovers a hard core roller derby league in Austin. Bliss soon discovers that sometimes you need to grab life by the wheels and roll on out your own destiny.
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The Twilight movies are unique, in that a monkey could direct them, so long as it was a) cheap and b) fast.
And able to make Robert Pattinson look suitably vacant. But that one’s a given. Anyway, rumour has it that Twilight is about to break from the norm by hiring a director who’s shown signs of basic competency to direct Twilight 3. According to reports, Juan Antonio Bayona of The Orphanage is onboard.
However, according to some other reports, Drew Barrymore is going to direct Twilight 3. Phew, that was close – for a second there we almost wanted to see it.
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As Jeremy Thomas, Tom Green, Jane Pratt, Fabrizio Moretti & the people in charge of food on the set of Music & Lyrics might tell you, Drew Barrymore’s bad side is not a place you want to be.
Justin Long might tell you that too, but give him a week or so. And why don’t you want to incur her anger? because if you do she’ll chase you down, pounce on your right shoulder and suck your heart out through a hole she bites in the back of your neck.
That was actually a recurring dream we had for most of the sixth grade. We still can’t watch her films without trembling. Another person who will probably never be able to stand the sight of her again (especially enlarged like that on the silver screen), is the guy that just made her the victim of a hit and run.
He didn’t get away. She chased him in her car at speeds in excess of 35 mph.
Hey – we’re serious here.
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