Friday NCAA Tourney preview
Three of the four games yesterday didn’t surprise me. It was mildly surprising how easily Marquette dispatched Miami, but I thought the Golden Eagles were a good match for Miami missing Reggie Johnson. Hope you took Marquette +5.5, like I advised. I’ll admit that Indiana losing, and losing convincingly, surprised me greatly. I thought Tom [...]
Hell no, don’t see ‘Joe!’
2009′s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra wasn’t exactly great cinema, but I have to admit I enjoyed it a little bit. It was big, stupid, cartoonish and ridiculous, but it still had a certain amount of levity and fun to it. Unfortunately the sequel, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, got a little too stupid and cartoonish for [...]
Bill Raftery and a Thursday Tournament preview
Easter weekend is usually a bright, cheerful weekend in my mind. No matter your religion you may feel the same way–temperatures start to rise, trees start to regain their color, etc. etc. Here in DC there will be Easter eggs on the White House lawn, the cherry blossoms might start to come in, and Bill [...]
‘Olympus Has Fallen’ didn’t do it for you? Try ‘White House Down.’
Fresh off the heels of Olympus Has Fallen comes a trailer for Roland Emmerich’s (Independence Day, 2012, The Day After Tommorrow) new “America and possibly the whole human race is screwed” movie, White House Down. Olympus Has Fallen rushed to get released before White House Down did so as not to seem unoriginal. Not that [...]
Sports MMSR: The Sweet Sixteen and not-so-sweet NASCAR
Greetings again with another jam-packed sports weekend! The NCAA Basketball Tournament has been whittled down to the Sweet Sixteen. I always love the Tournament, but in recent years it had been lacking in true last second buzzer-beating shots (it also lacks the amazing Gus Johnson calls of those last second shots, BRING BACK GUS!). However, that [...]
Politics MMSR: Rand Paul stokes 2016 speculation
With the possibility of a Government shutdown averted for now, we can turn away from the boring (but important) budgetary battles of the last few months and talk about other things. President Obama returned from a five-day Middle East trip, where he appeared somewhat successful in repairing his strained relationship with Israel. That was talked [...]
Selena Gomez should have avoided ‘Spring Breakers’
The words “spring break” mean one thing: freedom. While plenty of people go on cruises, there are just as many glued to Facebook pouring over the vacation pictures posted. For whatever excuse they can’t have the typical spring break and we live through others. I was hoping Spring Breakers would be a piece of escapism. Instead [...]
‘Olympus Has Fallen’ is moderately fun, but too generic to be very good
Die Hard meets Air Force One. That’s the best way I can sum up Olympus Has Fallen, the new action thriller produced by Millennium Films and directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day). The premise of the movie involves the capture of the White House and the President of the United States (Aaron Eckhart) by Korean terrorists. [...]
DreamWorks’ ‘The Croods’ is uh, very goods
The Croods, DreamWorks’ latest animated offering, stands out in just about every way in a dreary first quarter of movies this 2013. Visually stunning and creative, well-voiced, humorous and entertaining, the movie will please both children and adults on many levels. The best movies for families tend to be about entertaining families, and The Croods [...]
NFL possible rule changes, plus the Dumervil debacle
The NFL free agent frenzy has continued since we last talked last week, and we have some prospective rule changes to look at as well in this week’s edition of NFL news and notes. The owners are meeting right now and they are considering the competition committee’s proposals to change several rules to address player [...]