Snark, Critic and Pop!

• Rented Twinkle Toes from the Redbox for my daughter today.  Two directors and four writers and all it turns out to be an hour long commercial for Twinkle Toes shoes… no better than the Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Chocobot Hour.
• Levar Burton is alive and well and getting work, including a new show on TNT called Perception and the Reading Rainbow app.
• Mayim Bialik was injurred in a car crash but is OK and back on the set of Big Bang Theory.
• Robert Pattinson is going to play Lawrence of Arabia in the Werner Herzog movie, Queen Of The Desert.  Meanwhile (continue reading…)

Kristen Stewart is not showering, moping around and eating ice cream.  After years of playing sad drippy characters on the big screen she has become a sad drippy character in real life.  Well, I guess you reap what you sew.  Big problem for her going forward is that she broke the heart of the super sexy Robert Pattinson, seen here on a typical Sunday evening.  What teenage girl will pay to see her now?  Worse, she cheated on him with director Rupert Sanders who just happens to be married to Liberty Ross who played Stewart’s mother in the film Snow White and the Huntsman which was directed by, you guessed it – Rupert Sanders.  The pair have two children who will be undoubtedly scarred for life.  The only good to come out of this is that Us Weekly who broke the story will continue to have readers and stay in publication.  With more and more vital periodicals going out of business it is good to see that the knowledge of who screws who and who wears what ugly dress will continue to be passed on to the public.

The nominations for the 31st annual Razzies are out and Twilight: Eclipse tied The Last Airbender with 9 nominations to lead the pack.  Despite the fact that Twilight is a blight upon the world, it is hard for me to believe it will be able to slow down the speeding locomotive that is the terribleness of the Last Airbender.  M Night Shyamalan also received Razzie nominations for worst director and screenplay.  Oh, how the mighty have fallen… it’s like he is Orson Wells and Sixth Sense was his Citizen Kane, except that his failure to live up to it has nothing to do with Randolph Hearst and everything to do with a lack of ideas or film making skills. 

This year the Razzies have added a new award:  worst eye-gouging misuse of 3D.  Don’t let anyone tell you they are not with the times.  The biggest drama will be in the worst actress category (continue reading…)