December 26, 2005 Archive

Video

• Oh My God -- They Cast Kenny! You Bastards!

  ESPN's hilarious personality slips on dancin' shoes for Dancing with the Stars. What's an anti-reality TV viewer to do?

  Opinion in Video — by Matthew T. Sussman — on Dec 26, 2005

• Lucy's Story: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

  The strength of Narnia, however, like Lord of the Rings, is in the casting.

  Review in Video — by Tama — on Dec 26, 2005

• Movie Review: Ran

  Ran, Kurosawa's last masterpiece, is given The Criterion Collection treatment

  Review in Video — by El Bicho — on Dec 26, 2005

• Region 1 DVD Releases For 26th and 27th December 2005

  We end 2005 with two days worth of releases, one of which may actually give "straight-to-DVD" a worse reputation.

  News in Video — by David Dylan Thomas — on Dec 26, 2005

• Movie Review: King Kong

  Director Peter Jackson returns to his earlier idiosyncracy.

  Review in Video — by Adam Ash — on Dec 26, 2005

• Movie Review: Pride & Prejudice and Oliver Twist: Real/Ideal

  A hit and a miss. The moral: know what kind of book you're adapting.

  Review in Video — by Alan Dale — on Dec 26, 2005

• DVD Review: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

  Tim Curry...piles more sexual innuendo into words than Mae West, and dresses like a cheap hooker from a bad western.

  Review in Video — by Richard Marcus — on Dec 26, 2005

• DVD Review - Roseanne: The Complete Second Season

  Roseanne may have been the single best show ever made when it comes to character definition.

  Review in Video — by Chris Akin — on Dec 26, 2005

• Movie Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

  Review in Video — by Tim — on Dec 26, 2005

Books

• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

  Review in Books — by Murphy — on Dec 26, 2005

• Review: Man-Made Monsters by "Mad Marv"

  Chasing too many ideas in too few pages leaves this collection of horror short stories wanting.

  Review in Books — by Tim Gebhart — on Dec 26, 2005

• Staying Alive

  The politics of narcissism ... protest the failure of the world to live up to imagined aesthetic ideals of peace and harmony.

  Review in Books — by Tony Dalmyn — on Dec 26, 2005

• Review: The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

  An absorbing historical saga of South and Southeast Asia pits the yearning for freedom against formidable forces of despots and deep-rooted dispute.

  Review in Books — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Dec 26, 2005

Music

• CD Review: The Greenhornes - Sewed Souls

  Review in Music — by Tan The Man — on Dec 26, 2005

• CD Review: Electrocute - Troublesome Bubblegum

  The latest album by the Berlin-based duo.

  Review in Music — by George Dionne — on Dec 26, 2005

• Single Review: Ready For The World "Love You Down"

  Melvin Riley soothes his girlfriend's fears regarding their relationship in the faithful "Love You Down."

  Review in Music — by Pam Avoledo — on Dec 26, 2005

• CD Review: Bluestars by Pretty Ricky - Worst Album of the Year

  My principle objection is that Bluestars utterly fails on every musical level, but this record also conveys a grotesque gutter minded idea of romance that's too boring and mundane even to be disgusting.

  Review in Music — by Al Barger — on Dec 26, 2005

Culture

• A Creature Was Definitely Stirring

  I swear to this day I saw him, swinging his legs out our window.

  Opinion in Culture — by Victor Lana — on Dec 26, 2005

• Jerusalem Should Get What It Wants

  You don't have to know everything to give something.

  Opinion in Culture — by Diana Hartman — on Dec 26, 2005

• I Am A Jerusalemite

  What happens when a man leaves the land of his birth - but his heart stays there?

  Opinion in Culture — by Ruvy — on Dec 26, 2005

• Invitation To Travel - Sagittarius Moon: Astrology-Based Advice

  Opinion in Culture — by Elsa — on Dec 26, 2005

• Day By Day for December 26, 2005

  Chris Muir's excellent Day By Day cartoon, for December 26, 2005

  Satire in Culture — by Chris Muir — on Dec 26, 2005

Politics

• Notable/Quotables- 12/26/05

  Why shouldn't you pay for my crime? America's House of Lords. More Wal-Mart nonsense

  Opinion in Politics — by Patfish — on Dec 26, 2005

• Some In Media Didn't Buy RNC Spin About Bush's Domestic Surveillance Program

  The RNC used sentence fragments to take presidential executive orders out of context. Thankfully, some people noticed.

  Opinion in Politics — by David R. Mark — on Dec 26, 2005

• Some Conservatives, While Discussing Bush's Surveillance Program, Mentioning Dreaded "I" Word

  As Bob Barr said: "For a member of Congress to say, oh, that doesn't matter ... is absolutely astounding."

  News in Politics — by David R. Mark — on Dec 26, 2005