Here’s the Super Bowl Spot For Hulu’s The Handmaid Tale!


“My name is Offred.”

Margaret Atwood’s novel is a classic and one that, perhaps even more than Orwell’s 1984, feels especially relevant today.  Will Hulu do it justice?  We’ll find out on April 26th.

Here’s The Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring Mobile Strike Super Bowl Spot!


If the Celebrity Apprentice is canceled (and it looks like it will be, judging from the ratings that its been bringing in), at least Arnold Schwarzenegger can fall back on his job as the Mobile Strike spokesman.

For the record, I think Arnold was great in Maggie.  I’ve never played Mobile Strike and probably never will but I think he’s actually kinda charming in this commercial.

 

Here’s That Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Super Bowl Spot!


It’s Super Bowl Sunday, which means that people like me — who know little about football and care even less — will be having a great time watching commercials!

Speaking of which, here’s the Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 Super Bowl spot!  I can’t wait until this movie comes out!

A Movie A Day #36: Four Falls of Buffalo (2015, directed by Ken Rodgers)


four-falls-of-buffalo-movie-posterIn America, they love winners and that’s especially true when it comes to the Super Bowl.  Every year, one team wins the Super Bowl and goes home to a parade and sometimes a riot.  Another teams loses the Super Bowl, often becomes a laughing-stock, and spends the next season searching for “redemption,” never mind that even the team that loses the Super Bowl still did something that 30 other NFL teams failed to do.

Just ask the Buffalo Bills.  In the early 1990s, the Bills accomplished something that no other football team had ever accomplished.  They went to four consecutive super bowls.  And yet, because they lost all four times, the 90s Bills are remembered for what they lost instead of what they accomplished.  If the Bills had won all four of those Super Bowls, they would be remembered as the greatest team of all time.  But because they lost, they are forever remembered as being  joke.

Four Falls of Buffalo is a documentary about those four Super Bowls, all told from the point of view of the players that lost and the city that loved them.  Four Falls of Buffalo is very much a fan’s film but it’s still interesting to watch.  Along with detailing what went wrong (and sometimes right) at all four of the Super Bowls that the Bills lost, it also features interviews with the Bills players.  Particularly notewothy is an interview with Scott Norwood, the kicker who missed a field goal that, had he made it, would have won Super Bowl XXV for the Bills.  Even though the city of Buffalo embraced him after the loss, it is obvious that missed kick still haunts him.

Watch Four Falls of Buffalo in honor of all the teams that made it to the Super Bowl but did not get that win.

My Super Bowl Predictions


Since we are only a few hours away from the big game, I better get my Super Bowl predictions in.

I predict that the final score will be:

New England Patriots — 32

Atlanta Falcons — 17

After winning his fifth Super Bowl, Tom Brady will announce his retirement, run against Elizabeth Warren in 2018, and will be elected President in 2028.

Congratulations, Mr. President!

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Late To The Party : “Blair Witch”


Ryan C. (fourcolorapocalypse)'s avatarTrash Film Guru

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Adam Wingard is one of those directors that comes along every once in awhile and takes the world of horror by storm, but unlike other “flavors of the month” he seems to have some genuine a) skill; and b) staying power, so when it was (masterfully, I might add) revealed at Comic Con last year that his latest, the 2016-filmed The Woods, was actually a sequel to The Blair Witch Project that was “really” called, simply, Blair Witch, folks got understandably excited — including myself.

Anyone who follows this (hopefully) modest little blog of mine knows that I’m not nearly as “down” on the “found footage” sub-genre as some (okay, most) and still find quite a bit to like in many films that fall into the much-maligned category, but even someone who still holds out some hope for flicks of this sort such as myself will readily admit…

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Music Video of the Day: En Stilla Flirt by Agnetha & ??? (1969, dir. ???) + 8 Hootenanny Singers Videos From 1966


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This is the last of the pre-ABBA music videos. There are a couple more with Agnetha and one with Björn, but they don’t sing, so I am excluding them for the sake of my own sanity.

Phew! There is one last thing to bring up. While Benny was in The Hep Stars, before going on to ABBA, Björn was in a group called Hootenanny Singers. I found a video that you could technically break-up into separate music videos, but this is a whole special with narration between the songs. To me this crosses into A Hard Day’s Night (1964) territory. Nevertheless, I have embedded the video below if you want to hear some of their songs. Yes, it does have the song Baby Those Are The Rules, which I am sure Björn would rather you forget was ever a thing. But, it does give you some nice shots of Björn circa 1966.

Enjoy!

ABBA retrospective:

  1. Bald Headed Woman by The Hep Stars (1966, dir. ???)
  2. Tangokavaljeren by Björn (1969, dir. ???)
  3. Vårkänslor (ja, de’ ä våren) by Agnetha & Björn (1969, dir. ???)
  4. Titta in i men lilla kajuta by Björn (1969, dir. ???)
  5. Nu Ska Vi Vara Snälla by Björn & Agnetha (1969, dir. ???)
  6. Finns Det Flickor by Björn & Sten Nilsson (1969, dir. ???)
  7. Nu Ska Vi Opp, Opp, Opp by Agnetha (1969, dir. ???)
  8. Det Kommer En Vår by Agnetha (1969, dir. ???)
  9. Beate-Christine by Björn (1969, dir. ???)
  10. Att Älska I Vårens Tid by Frida (1970, dir. ???)
  11. Min Soldat by Frida (1970, dir. ???)
  12. Söderhavets Sång by Frida (1970, dir. ???)
  13. Ring, Ring by ABBA (1973, dir. Lasse Hallström)
  14. Ring, Ring by ABBA (1973, dir. ???)
  15. Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough) by ABBA (1973, dir. ???)
  16. Waterloo by ABBA (1974, dir. Lasse Hallström)
  17. Hasta Mañana by ABBA (1974, dir. ???)
  18. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do by ABBA (1975, dir. Lasse Hallström)
  19. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do by ABBA (1975, dir. ???)
  20. Bang-A-Boomerang by ABBA (1975, dir. Lasse Hallström)
  21. SOS by ABBA (1975, dir. Lasse Hallström)
  22. Mamma Mia by ABBA (1975, dir. Lasse Hallström)
  23. Knowing Me, Knowing You by ABBA (1976, dir. ???)