Sing along where you can
Since tomorrow is Halloween, it’s time to dust off this old chestnut, from a movie my sister and I used to watch on HBO and adore beyond all rational thought.
The Worst Witch, starring Fairuza Balk, Mrs. G from the Facts of Life, and mothereffing Tim Curry.
Please, as a treat to yourself and me, jump and watch Tim Curry’s musical number from the movie. He plays the King of the Witches, and he wants to teach the witches at the witch school what can happen on Halloween. Spoiler alert- ANYTHING can happen on Halloween.
Those Brits really know how to make a kids movie that’s not a kids movie
Was it just me, or was there always something oddly sexual about the movie Drop Dead Fred?
I mean, yeah, it starred Rik Mayall, who was the insane punk rock guy of the Young Ones, so he brought a very rebellious and sly and cheeky vibe to the complicated role of the imaginary friend who comes back to his former playmate once she’s grown up to taunt her into happiness… but the movie was still written with some very “adult themes”, as they say. Fred frequently comments on people’s sex lives and spies on Phoebe Cates when she’s making out with people, but at the end, when it’s time for him to finally leave, do you remember the kiss that he and his grown up companion share? My my, it was hot.
So I’m not at all surprised to learn this:
Splinterheads!!!
Thomas Middleditch, fellow Chicago transplant, current neighbor, cohost of Game Bros. LIVE!, and always wonderful fweind, starred in a movie last year that’s going to be at the South by Southwest Fest this year!! Watch the trailer for Splinterheads! He’s the guy who is literally in every frame!
YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
The Polish are way cooler than us
I found a bunch of Polish movie posters for American films that are amazing and often require explanation. There are a few after the jump, check the link for more!
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Run for cover!!!
Mariah Carey has a new movie coming out at the end of this year!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Tennessee is the story of two brothers, Carter and Ellis, who embark on a journey from New Mexico to find their estranged father in the hopes of saving Ellis, who has been diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Along the way they meet Krystal, an aspiring singer whose dreams of a singing career have been ruined by a bad marriage.
Though not a musical, director Lee Daniels’ film features Carey performing the original ballad “Right to Dream,” which she co-wrote with Willie Nelson, who apparently will work with anyone these days.
Watch a scene from it after the jump! You will shudder at Mariah’s cornrows and horribly fake Southern accent! You will giggle at her attempts to seem broken! YES!
Let’s NOT do the time warp again
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but MTV Studios, the folks that brought you such movies as Joe’s Apartment, Freedom Writers, and Dead Man on Campus, but also, amazingly, Hustle & Flow and Murderball, have decided that now is the time to “reboot” Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Yeah. I know. The goth theater geek population is up in arms. Goth theater geeks, by the way, are a small subset of both the goth community and the theater geek community, and generally considered weird by both. They can be recognized by their overly sexual style of dress, poor complexion, and tendency to have sad orgies with each other.
Weekend
Rather than posting this weekend, I’ve been off the grid weekending it up all over NYC, which, by the way, included watching this movie at 3am in Bushwick with Jared and Steve and Kumail.
The Garbage Pail Kids MOVIE. Being in a rough part of Bushwick at 3am paled in comparison to the horror of this movie, which makes the Garbage Pail Kids, who are supposed to be gross but lovably cute, into completely horrifying rubber-faced beings that just….don’t…look……right.
So instead, on this sunny summer morning, I leave you with Harvey, who is the son of British “glamour model” Katie Price (aka Jordan). Katie Price and her current husband Peter Andre, Harvey’s stepdad, have had several reality shows about their whole family. Harvey was born blind and with septo-optic dysplasia, which sounds like a very traumatic disorder, and is a favorite of gossip blogs and pop culture junkies. This is my favorite clip of Harvey, and what I’d like to tell the work week to do.
