Archive → May, 2010
Wonderfully Violent Muppet Coffee Commercials
I can’t keep myself from getting all excited about the prospects of a new Muppet movie from Muppet-aficionado Jason Segel and Nicolas Stoller, director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the upcoming Get Him to the Greek. Apparently, there was a table read recently for the new movie, with all of the Muppets on hand (in Muppet form). I recently came across this series of ads done by Jim Henson with some wacky, early Muppets.
Back in the late 1950s, before The Muppet Show and all that pizzazz, there was Wilkins Coffee. In a series of short tv ads created for the coffee chain in Washington, DC, Jim Henson had two lovable little Muppets maim and torture each other Itchy and Scratchy style. They’re all great.
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Review: The Losers
The Losers is the first of a trio of similar mercenary team movies due this summer, along with the nostalgia-stroking A-Team and the all-star lineup of The Expendables. Compare this to the ménage à trois of Mr. and Mrs. Smith-style action comedies (to wit: Date Night, Killers and the atrociously-titled Knight and Day). It seems as though the old Armageddon/Deep Impact summer head-to-heads have evolved a third head.
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Review: Kick-Ass
Matthew Vaughn has crafted the best superhero movie this side of Watchmen in Kick-Ass. The movie’s tone is all-at-once hilarious, relentless and violent in all the right ways.
Dave Lizewski is your average comic-book nerd dreaming of something better. He spends the movie narrating for us in much the same way Jesse Eisenberg’s Columbus guides us through the rules and wackiness of the world of Zombieland, or the Fight Club-style lecturing and posturing of James McAvoy in Wanted. Dave is a mere socially inept nerd and nothing more. By his narrative’s admission, if you’re looking for clichéd tales of vengeance for the death of a loved one, you’ll have to look elsewhere. READ MORE!