May 29 2008
Popcorn
I rolled with the punches when gas prices topped four dollars a gallon this summer and vowed to drive less. I even contemplated the idea of purchasing less beer when a hop shortage ravaged the cost of suds. But, I refuse to pay anymore for movie theater popcorn!
This USA Today piece from a few days ago outlines how a rise in corn prices will affect the emptiness of your wallet this summer blockbuster season. And while movie theaters have to battle dangerous movie pirates to protect their 40 percent profit margin on concessions, we will probably be seeing a rise in price of every food item as well; from the 65 ounce Pepsi to the dusty box of Milk Duds that has been screaming to be purchased.
I have always thought of the Olympic opening ceremonies as a little overdramatic and dare I say cheesy. Well thanks to a 300 million dollar budget and the artistic vision of renowned Chinese film director Zhang Yimou, 2008’s Bejing ceremonies were legendary - despite the frequent flood warnings and technical difficulties interrupting the broadcast thanks [...]
Bret Easton Ellis strikes again; Wayfarers, New Order, drugs, sex, and rich LA brats. Welcome to the first look at “The Informers”, the film adaptation of Ellis’s 1994 novel of the same name in which he also wrote the screenplay.
“The drama is set over the course of a week in 1983, in the chillingly [...]
In the 1950’s Hollywood was producing around forty westerns per year, that number fell to twenty during the 60’s, around ten per year in the 1970’s through 90’s, and in the new millennium, we are lucky to get five westerns each year. But when those westerns are of the caliber of 2007’s “3:10 [...]