Archive for January, 2009

I wonder how many times we’ll have to see a womanizing d-bag figure out what love is really about before the whole storyline is retired. In The Ghosts of Girlfriends past, obviously a spoof (or something) on A Christmas Carol, Matthew McConaughey plays a seemingly heinous human being who has been with what appears to be a thousand women. A ghost played by Emma Stone talks to him about his past girlfriends and, along with two other ghosts, ultimately points him in the direction of the one he let get away (or, more accurately, the one he could not run away from quickly enough), played by Jennifer Garner. Lemme guess: She takes back the d-bag even though she still knows he’s a d-bag. But as a kid he said he’d keep her picture forever, so it all makes sense.

Except that it doesn’t. Michael Douglas also stars as a phantom trying to help this dude find love. The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past opens May 1. To please share in my experience of watching this trailer, read more.

Photo courtesy of Warner Bros.

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There’s no new Office episode to recap today, but that’s OK - I’m willing to give my Dunder Mifflin friends a break since I know they have something special up their sleeves. On Sunday, immediately following the Super Bowl, NBC will air a special hourlong Office episode called “Stress Relief.”

In the episode, Dwight will force the Scranton branch into “extreme disaster training,” setting the whole office on fire while all the employees are locked inside. There’s also a plot involving several special guest stars, including Jack Black, Jessica Alba, and Cloris Leachman, who apparently appear in a bootlegged Hollywood movie that some Office workers try to watch. Jenna Fischer herself says the opening is “the wildest two minutes of The Office ever,” so I can’t wait to see it.

To check out a few scenes from the episode, plus an interview with Jessica Alba and several regular cast members, just read more.

Welcome to Buzz Brainteaser, the trivia feature on BuzzSugar! Every weekday I’ll test your knowledge about TV shows, music, and movies. If you enter in the correct answer, you win points!

Name the ’80s movie from which I’ve taken this quote:

“Oh, I know what y’all really want is some gross, caricature of a woman to prove some idiotic point that power makes a woman masculine, or masculine women are ugly. Well shame on you for letting a man do that, or any man that does that.”

• Fox has repeats of House and Lie to Me
• NBC is new with Howie Do It, Friday Night Lights, and Dateline
• CBS has repeats of Ghost Whisperer, Flashpoint, and Numb3rs
• ABC is new with Wife Swap and 20/20
• The CW is new with Everybody Hates Chris, The Game, and 13 – Fear is Real
• USA is new with Monk and Psych
• TLC is new with What Not to Wear
• VH1 is new with Best Week Ever
• Sci Fi is new with Battlestar Galactica
• Late-night highlights include Mary Hicks and the Gaslight Anthem on Late Show With David Letterman on CBS; Elizabeth Banks, Dev Patel, and James Morrison on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on NBC; and Greg Kinnear and J.J. Abrams on a repeat of Late Night With Conan O’Brien on NBC

A little while ago I received in the mail this seemingly cute little colorful box from an unfamiliar sender. Turns out it contains two buttons which, should I decide to cross over into my “Other Mother”‘s world, would have to replace my real eyes. Creepy! Included in the package is also a typed-up note from my “Other Mother,” explaining that she’s made this box by hand, just like she hand-made a whole world for Coraline, the lead character in the freaky stop-motion movie Coraline which opens next Friday. Anyone who’s ever wished for a better life has an Other Mother who will provide a lovely, perfect life – as long as you promise to stay with her forever.

It’s a pretty neat gimmick, I gotta say. The stop-motion movie includes all kinds of amazing, miniature handmade things and having seen the film it’s truly a breathtaking experience to watch it – particularly in 3-D. It’s also creepy and sometimes downright frightening, so receiving this real-life little box from my “Other Mother” is appropriately spooky.

Apparently 50 different handmade Coraline packages were sent out to a bunch of bloggers and you can see a whole rundown of different mysterious-looking Coraline boxes here. Below you can peruse the photos of my particular gift from my Other Mother. Are you creeped out? Because I am.

The long-gestating live-action film version of beloved ’80s cartoon series He-Man has found a director in Kung Fu Panda helmer John Stevenson. The He-Man movie – which also now has the title Masters of the Universe – will mark Stevenson’s live-action directorial debut, and apparently he came on board for the project when he visited the Mattel headquarters and “was shown into a secret lair that contained the visuals created by the toymaker staff.” According to him, “There was this locked bunker that you had to be escorted into. It was filled with art, some generated by the Mattel artists, and I looked around, and said, ‘I get it.’ We started formulating a specific vision for costumes, creatures, architecture, and the creation of a mythology and look for a whole world we’ll create.”

So, there’s a vision of some sort here. . . right? Kinda? It might not be totally ridiculous and embarrassing? Personally, I think as long as they don’t put a blond pageboy wig on Brendan Fraser and call it a day, I’ll give this project the benefit of the doubt for now.

Still, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: We’ve gotten Transformers and we’re getting G.I. Joe and He-Man. Why is it all so much boy stuff? As long as we’re on this ride, where is my Jem and the Holograms movie?

The Super Bowl is this weekend in Tampa, and fans of both the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals are getting ready to cheer. But the game isn’t the only reason to tune into the Super Bowl broadcast. From the funny ads to the halftime show, Sunday will be filled with entertainment. So tell me: What entertainment-related part of the Super Bowl are you looking forward to most?