Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 4 weeks 1 day ago.
If you’re anything like me right now, you’ve got the TV and the hi-fi switched off until this window-rattling system moves through. At least my laptop won’t die with the power. Should you be in the same boat - or even if you read this to...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 4 weeks 1 day ago.
At the start of this decade, a man undeserving of such an honor took over one of America’s most influential posts. Eight years - and reams of head-smack blabbering and inanity later - the nation can collectively exhale. After 2008, we will no longer...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 1 month ago.
Can you get off topic before establishing it If so, here goes.
In a few paragraphs, you’ll find my review of “The Dark Knight,” easily the best movie of the summer, and the year, so far. I’ll be seeing at least one time more, if n...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 2 months ago.
Just when it seems easy to again write off Edward Norton as a humorless boor, he goes and does something like this. (Given that he’s done little promotion for “The Incredible Hulk” - the final cut of which he’s reportedly not so pl...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 2 months ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=QTahrYXCChI
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 2 months ago.
Well, if I just put “Flight of the Conchords in Chicago,” you might not read, right
For those who aren’t familiar with Flight of the Conchords, they’re “formerly New Zealand’s fourth-most-popular guitar-based digi-bong...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 2 months ago.
My review of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” runs in print tomorrow in the A&E section. But because it will have a screening at 12:01 a.m. Thursday (or Wednesday, depending on how you might incorrectly want to slice it...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 3 months ago.
With “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” opening in theaters on Thursday, next week’s A&E section is taking a look at “Indy” nostalgia for. Tell me your favorite moments from the “Indiana Jones̶...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 3 months ago.
Surely, it’s in violation of Blogger Code, Section 324, Sub-Section G, paragraph 102 to spend more time issuing mea culpas for not blogging than actually blogging. But here it is, yet again.
No, there hasn’t been much to comment about here lat...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 3 months ago.
Unpainted Huffhines is closing down for a few days while its proprietor visits our nation’s capital. So I’ll see you all next week. In the meantime, here’s an advance sneak peek at my review of “Iron Man.” The movie opens Fri...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 3 months ago.
… in honor of Dan’s post about live albums, allow me to defend one of my choices. I submit to you the awesome “Big Love” from Fleetwood Mac’s “The Dance.” Enjoy, and have a great weekend:http://www.youtube.com/wat...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 3 months ago.
Today’s A&E section spotlights the numerous movies opening between May and August to compete for your summer-blockbuster dollars. There are the major movies, the rest of the rest and also an online-only chronological schedule with one-click trai...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 3 months ago.
Honestly, I didn’t really know that David Cook would perform “Music of the Night” last night, but I certainly think it solidified him as a favorite to win the whole “American Idol” shebang. I remain unconvinced that teenybopp...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 3 months ago.
Tonight on “American Idol,” remaining contestants sing the songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber. If the idea of hearing David Cook’s breathy slowed-down rock take on, say, “Music of the Night” or David Archuleta busting out something...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 3 months ago.
Prairie Capital Convention Center general manager Brian Oaks admits that Sunday night’s Lynyrd Skynyrd concert didn’t quite live up to expectations.
“We had hoped we’d have at least 4,000 people in attendance,” Oaks said Mond...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 4 months ago.
Nothing tempers excitement in an “X-Files” sequel like a lame subtitle and, if this synopsis is to be believed, a plotline that sounds extra-ordinary. Then again, creator Chris Carter and company have been up to plenty of purposeful misinforma...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 4 months ago.
Link dump later, but here’s a soundtrack to today’s tremors. Feel free to leave other suggestions.http://www.youtube.com/watchv=V9lcCFI_4XAhttp://www.youtube.com/watchv=Bomv-6CJSfMhttp://www.youtube.com/watchv=p88HutyvsZ8http://www.youtube....
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 4 months ago.
Today, ZZ Top announced a co-headlining tour with Brooks & Dunn that stretches through the summer. Interesting news given that yesterday, ZZ Top’s date at the Illinois State Fair disappeared from the radar on Pollstar, a concert-industry Web sit...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 4 months ago.
“South Park” excepted, I don’t think I’ve ever seen re-runs of any current TV show I watch. I know “The Office” is always adding in a couple seconds of extra footage each time it re-airs an episode, and that’s no...
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 4 months ago.
It’s a question I’m pitching to you for a column I’m writing for next week’s A&E section.The column idea came from “The Mist,” Frank Darabont’s criminally overlooked chiller that he adapted last year from Step...
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