My suspicion is the KERN Krew and I will be talking tonight about “Breaking Bad,” “The Newsroom,” "Louie," “Bunheads” and maybe “Weeds.”
As for movies? I didn’t see a movie this week for the first time in months. I’m interested in seeing “Ruby Sparks” and “The Campaign” (from Jay Roach, the versatile director behind the Austin Powers movies and HBO’s terrifying Sarah Palin opus “Game Change”), but it feels like – post-Batman – the summer movie season is kinda over. Didn’t have the stomach to shell out for “The Watch,” which looks terrible and is only pulling 15% positive on Rotten Tomatoes.
What I saw so far this year in cinemas:
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Avengers
Bernie
Cabin in the Woods
The Dark Knight Rises
Dark Shadows
The Dictator
Magic Mike
Men in Black III
Moonrise Kingdom
Prometheus
Safety Not Guaranteed
Snow White and the Huntsman
That’s My Boy
To Rome With Love
Your Sister’s Sister
(That may not look like much, but it already puts me in the 11% of “frequent” moviegoers who pay to see at least 12 movies in cinemas per year. Digression. If Thanksgiving rolls around and you realize you still haven’t seen any movies this year, you can see 12 movies in 24 hours if you can squeeze yourself into Harry Knowles’ Butt-Numb-A-Thon. End digression.)
Tonight we may discuss which of the summer movies we enjoyed most. (Hint: not fucking Snow White.)
Then maybe we discuss which autumn movies we’re most excited about?
* SEPT. 14: “The Master,” the not-Scientology-that’s-for-sure project from Paul Thomas Anderson, of “Punch Drunk Love” and “There Will Be Blood” fame. (Maybe it’s secretly about the Mormons?)
* SEPT. 28: “Looper,” the time-travel tale from “Brick”/”Brothers Bloom” boy Rian Johnson.
* OCT. 12: “Argo,” the fake-sci-fi-movie Iran-hostage-rescue thriller from Ben Affleck (“Gone Baby Gone,” “The Town”).
* NOV. 9: “Skyfall,” Sam Mendes (“Revolutionary Road,” “Away We Go”) directing a James Bond movie.
* DEC. 21: “This Is 40,” writer-director Judd Apatow checking in on the Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann characters from “Knocked Up.”
* DEC. 25: “Django Unchained” puts Sam Jackson and Christoph Waltz back in proximity to Quentin Tarantino. It should have starred Idris Elba, but whatever.
I’ve been going through the episodes on my new season-one “Star Trek: The Next Generation” blu-ray
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