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  1. What a dilemma: Coffin Joe feeding Brazilian babes LSD on IFC, vs. commie-stooge Lee Marvin passing state secrets on TCM.
  2. Digging David Carradine as Woody Guthrie in "Bound for Glory" on TCM. Could we kindly start over, agitate for our rights, elect a Roosevelt?
  3. We raise a glass of tears for Paul Michael Wiliams, died on this date in 1990. Those who knew him know.
  4. Revisited both "Toy Story" movies, opening as a twofer next Friday, in 3-D. For giddy richness of detail, no other kidflicks come close.
  5. Studying "Gangs of New York" again on IFC. I'll say it forever: Daniel Day-Lewis was robbed of the Oscar. Adrien Brody? My left foot!
  6. I'm finishing Truffaut's wonderful movie-within-a-movie "Day for Night," a Netflix disc I've kept for a month. (I didn't want it to end.)
  7. "Zombieland" is bloody hilarious.
  8. "Couples Retreat' provides a vicarious trip to Bora Bora (and for some of my TV-reporter pals, the trip will be real, for a junket).
  9. At Litchfield's Skyview Drive-In: "Time Traveler's Wife" was a bland, backasswards "Benjamin Button," but better than pointless "Post-Grad."
  10. Two weeks of blessings culminate in a cheap ticket to U2 in Toronto. Remember: It's ALWAYS a beautiful day when your eyes are open.
  11. At Toronto filmfest, when I asked Anna Kendrick about misplacing a "New Moon" script in a St. Louis dumpster, her handler shushed her.
  12. A highlight of the Toronto filmfest: explaining who Megan Fox was to Oscar-nominee Jane Campion, director of "The Piano" and "Bright Star."
  13. Waiting to see The Road. Just saw the last Heath Ledger film. Later I talk to Michael Moore. Suggestions?
  14. I'll bet you $100 that a health bill with a public option for all Americans will NOT be passed or signed by 2010. Hot air + spin = sell-out.
  15. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: I see original lyrics of "Purple Haze," Lennon's "Pepper" garb--and my teen idol, Todd Rundgren, posing for pix.
  16. Staying at the FLWright designed Penfield House, in a town called Willoughby, Ohio. A Twilight Zone of serenity.
  17. A screaming comes across the sky. Fighter jets over the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame are SO wrong.
  18. I thought of torching Wright's Fallingwater for Burning Man. Instead we saw "Inglourious Basterds" at a Pittsburgh drive-in. Better choice.
  19. I can see Niagara Falls under a full moon from my hotel window. Tomorrow: Fallingwater. I'm sensing a theme.
  20. Just chatted with director Steven Soderbergh (3rd time in 6 months). "The Informant!," whistleblower comedy starring Matt Damon, is a hoot.