Entries for September 2008

"Lakeview Terrace" just might be the perfect guilty pleasure. It's got awkwardly presented social issues, barely established motives, beautiful homes in a ritzy southern California neighborhood, neighborly disputes on par with anything on "Desperate Housewives" and star presence supplied by Samuel L. Jackson.

Ethan and Joel Coen could very well be Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Or their careers could be described as such, at least. 
                                                        
For every brilliant, fully realized film such as last year's "No Country for Old Men" and "Fargo" they've released, there's been at least two significantly less watchable (i.e. slow and meandering) ones, such as their "The Ladykillers" remake and "The Man Who Wasn't There." Mainstream acceptance tends to directly follow this Coen tendency: "No Country" won a best picture Oscar and was one of my favorites from last year, while I don't know anyone who loves their "Ladykillers," for example.

Tina Fey wants to be a baby mama. She really, really wants to be a baby mama.

Or at least her character, Kate Holbrook, wants to be one in the just-released-on-DVD comedy, "Baby Mama." Only problem is, genetics are not on her side in the motherhood department. Sticky notes in her bathroom reminding her to be "Be fertile!"

When you think of "rockers," Rainn Wilson probably isn't the first person who comes to mind.That's largely due to the role he's most known for, Steve Carell's annoyingly clingy and anal-retentive sidekick Dwight Schrute on NBC's "The Office." On this show, the geeky man-child Dwight is quite possibly the anti-rocker.