I’m at the point that I’d really like to put Shawn and Marlon Wayans in a locked, windowless room with an alligator and a lion and see who emerges the victor. That might not be entirely fair to Shawn and Marlon, since their name doesn’t appear on the crew list for Scary Movie 5 other than to say the movie is based on characters created by them on IMDb, and they haven’t actually appeared in one of the movies since the second one, but… they started it. By ‘it’, I mean the current parody movie trend that we are subjected to.
By Heather Stromski
I’m at the point that I’d really like to put Shawn and Marlon Wayans in a locked, windowless room with an alligator and a lion and see who emerges the victor. That might not be entirely fair to Shawn and Marlon, since their name doesn’t appear on the crew list for Scary Movie 5 other than to say the movie is based on characters created by them on IMDb, and they haven’t actually appeared in one of the movies since the second one, but… they started it. By ‘it’, I mean the current parody movie trend that we are subjected to. By Heather Stromski There aren't many movies that I can watch from my childhood that I love as much now as I did then. Near the top of that short list is 1991’s Hook, a live-action take on the beloved children's tale Peter Pan that contains as much fun for adults as it does for children, with all manner of inside jokes – and inner sadness - that become all too clear as one 'grows up'. By Heather Stromski Sometime last year, this little book was making all sorts of fuss for being ‘racy’ and touching on such topics as BDSM and dominance/submission, while containing more sex than you could shake a stick at. 50 Shades of Grey, by first-time novelist E.L. James, was being touted as the doorway to reopening a woman’s libido and a whole passel of babies born over the next few months will be blamed on the 50 Shades ‘phenomenon’. Now, me? I’m the type of person that pretty much reads anything I can get my hands on. I’ve very rarely met a book I didn’t like, and almost never met a book I couldn’t get through. So when I heard all this racket about a book of the erotica genre getting a whole mess of buzz, I figured I should give it a shot. After all, I enjoy a fair bit of smut every now and then. I’m a stay-at-home mom/housewife. This stuff is pretty much marketed right at me. Don’t judge! |
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