Wednesday, August 25, 2010

The 100 Greatest Movies of the 00's


1. The Dark Knight

2. Memento

3. The Lord of the Rings

4. Tropic Thunder

5. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

6. Forgetting Sarah Marshall

7. Zombieland

8. Spider-Man

9. Black Hawk Down

10. High Fidelity

11. The Departed

12. (500) Days of Summer

13. Wedding Crashers

14. Inside Man

15. Love Actually

16. Atonement

17. Shaun of the Dead

18. Hellboy

19. Funny People

20. 300

21. Pan's Labyrinth

22. Inglourious Basterds

23. There Will Be Blood

24. American Gangster

25. Gran Torino

26. Sin City

27. District 9

28. Flags of Our Fathers

29. Elizabethtown

30. Gladiator

31. Superbad

32. Drag Me to Hell

33. Almost Famous

34. Watchmen

35. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

36. Traffic

37. Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith

38. Bend it Like Beckham

39. Knocked Up

40. Gangs of New York

41. School of Rock

42. Hancock

43. Up in the Air

44. Wall-E

45. Slumdog Millionaire

46. Letters from Iwo Jima

47. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

48. Waitress

49. Pineapple Express

50. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

51. Grindhouse

52. 2012

53. Garden State

54. Catch Me if You Can

55. Dead Snow

56. American Dreamz

57. Murderball

58. The Incredibles

59. Iron Man

60. Legally Blonde

61. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

62. Pootie Tang

63. Supersize Me

64. Snakes on a Plane

65. Fahrenheit 9/11

66. Zoolander

67. Up

68. V for Vendetta

69. Mean Girls

70. Idiocracy

71. Closer

72. Eastern Promises

73. Hot Fuzz

74. Saved!

75. Brick

76. Juno

77. Zach and Miri Make a Porno

78. Munich

79. Sunshine Cleaning

80. Bring it On

81. Half Nelson

82. Maria Full of Grace

83. Team America: World Police

84. Blue Crush

85. Fanboys

86. Couples Retreat

87. American Pie 2

88. Orange County

89. The Rundown

90. A Walk to Remember

91. Lars and the Real Girl

92. Serenity

93. Punch Drunk Love

94. The Hurt Locker

95. Dedication

96. Remember the Titans

97. Little Nicky

98. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

99. Avatar

100. Red Eye

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

I Want My Music Television vol. XC


There have been a couple of videos that have caught my eye lately so I thought I’d give them some love since the death of Musical Television left a void for a forum on the art form. If you are interested in buying the video through iTunes, click the title link (where available). If you are interested in buying the song, look for a link in the analysis.


Madder Red – Yeasayer



I guess we have Yeasayer to thank for giving us a little insight as how Kristen Bell could date Dax Sheppard.


Wake Up Everybody - John Legend, The Roots featuring Common and Melanie Fiona



I do not know exactly where they find the time, but color me excited for a collaboration album between The Roots and John Legend. Hopefully Legend carved out a week to join The Roots on Late Night to perform a bunch of the songs.


(Expletive Delete) You – Cee-Lo



Expletive lyrics have not been this catchy since Closer by Nine Inch Nails. Thank you Cee-Lo for raising my chances of getting mouth washed out with soap in the near future.


Bushwick Blues - Delta Spirit



Hurmph. I actually thought something was actually going to happen, but it was all build up and no payoff from Delta Spirit. At least the song is pretty decent.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Previewing Witness: Katrina


It is hard to believe we are already upon the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina which was officially classified as one five years ago today. It took another week before it wrecked havoc on the gulf coast where things still are not back to normal in placed she hit. Tonight at 9:00 the National Geographic Channel is taking a look back at the storm literally through the eyes of people who lived through it with Witness: Katrina.

All of the footage show will come from those on the scene from amateur cameramen documenting how they try to live through the storm throughout the Gulf Coast (but mostly focusing on New Orleans), filming as water rises above their waste, walls getting blown down and even the Superdome falling around them. The footage ranges over seventy-two hours of the storm starting with a bunch of hippies mocking at how un-scary a hurricane named Katrina sounds to hours after the storm passes as we join residents trying to rescue their neighbors who stayed with their house.

It is good they the show stays in first person for just the prelude, the storm, and in immediate aftermath so the special isn’t bogged down with the finger pointing, celebrities getting stuck in a boat or dudes with the nickname Brownie that came afterward, just an unfiltered account of real people in the path of the hurricane. The only addenda we get are an update of how the videographers are doing today. Check out a preview of Witness: Katrina below.