If you’ve ever seen Election — the high-school movie with Reese Witherspoon as a blowhard running for class president — this mash-up made by Slate is too good. It montages Hillary Clinton clips with the scene where Tracy Flick, the uncontested candidate, learns that the school’s genial jock (guess who) is entering the race. [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 24, 2008
Big-Ups Movie: There Will Be Blood
There will be blood. And by the end of the final scene, it is unmistakably clear what the film’s title was setting you up for. As you can probably guess, blood is one of this movie’s central themes, flowing like a stream of crude oil through the dark soul of our villain-protagonist, Daniel [...]
February 5, 2008
Pre-Super Tuesday Thoughts
In this world of ours today, we’ve learned that the only way to really figure out a political candidate is to approach his record, his platform, and his proposals and break them all down in order to get at his true motivations, his character, his convictions.
Until now. Never before in my lifetime do I [...]
February 3, 2008
The Patriots are Mortal!
Total, utter ix-nay on that “Snoozer Bowl” prediction. WHAT a game. For just one minute, my Eli hatred goes out the window — that was a superb defensive outing for the Giants and a downright gutsy, dare I say Patriot-ic final drive for their offense. TD pass to Plaxico? Ecstasy. [...]
