I was able to sit down for a couple of years and pump out a book. It’s got little to do with movies. Download and read “Thank You, Goodnight†right HERE for free.
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NOTE BENE, MUY IMPORTANTE
For those of you missing what I used to do every single week here inside the Trailer Park need to look no further than the new writing space/temporary housing at Slash Film.com’s This Week In Trailers. They have been more than gracious in letting me speak to their audience as I still spend time here with my other many projects which seem to consist of giving away free screenings, free DVDs and bringing you interviews with some fairly interesting people.
I do hope you check me out over there every Friday, as I do here, and I hope to be a parent who tries to keep their children wondering whether they’re their favorite.
I love you all equally…
COUPLES RETREAT – SCREENING
I know, it’s been some time since I’ve had a screening around these parts. Well, I am delighted to say that there are finally some that I will be able to invite all my readers in Arizona (the 1 of you) to attend.
This screening, however, is for the new film COUPLES RETREAT starring Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman and Jon Favreau, all three of which represent a potential of great comedy. Bateman is a great choice solely for his output as of late. There is great promise here so if you want to see it, shoot me a note at Christopher_Stipp@yahoo.com and I’ll get you entered to win.
The screening is happening this October 6th at 7 PM at Tempe Marketplace in Tempe, Arizona. Hope to see you there…
Description of film below:
Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Malin Akerman, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell and Faizon Love star in Universal Pictures’ upcoming comedy Couples Retreat. The comedy follows four Midwestern couples who embark on a journey to a tropical island resort. While one of the couples is there to work on their marriage, the other three set out to jet ski, spa and enjoy some fun in the sun. They soon discover that participation in the resort’s couples therapy is not optional. Suddenly, their group-rate vacation comes at a price. What follows is a hilarious look at real world problems faced by all couples. The film also stars Kali Hawk and Jean Reno.
30 Rock, Season 3 DVD Giveaway
It took me a while to get into 30 Rock.
I think I have become so used to formulaic comedies on major network television that I didn’t know how to respond to its writing, its language. For those of you who are already hooked on this program know that there is a reason it has been nominated in so many different ways for an Emmy.
If you’re looking to add this to your collection and don’t have the scratch to get yourself a copy shoot me an e-mail to Christopher_Stipp@yahoo.com and you’ll get entered into a drawing for the fill season on DVD. For those looking to get an idea of what happened this season read the DVD description:
Warning: The third season of 30 Rock may cause fits of “lizzing” (an elevated state of hilarity that involves laughter plus whizzing) with its brilliantly loopy word play, “what the what” situations, and deft turns by a stellar roster of A-list guest stars. Liz Lemon (Emmy-winning geek goddess Tina Fey) trying to avoid jury duty by dressing as Princess Leia? Jenna (Jane Krakowski) starring in a biopic about Janis Joplin (or Jackie Jomp-Jomp due to rights complications that forbid use of Joplin’s name and music)? Steve Martin as a fabulously wealthy agoraphobe? I want to go to there! This season, Liz increasingly yearns for a normal life outside of the demands of her sanity-testing job as head writer of TGS, a Saturday Night Live-esque comedy show. Happiness will find Liz, but not before two hilariously doomed relationships, one with a little person (guest star Peter Dinklage), whom she initially mistakes for a child, and the other with a neighbor (Mad Men’s Jon Hamm) who doesn’t realize people have allowed him to skate through life because of his impossibly good looks. She also has a rude awakening when she joins a group of Ladies who Lunch while on forced administrative leave. Her friendship with Master of the Universe mentor Jack Donaghy (indispensable Emmy-winner Alec Baldwin) is the series’ endearing sweet spot
30 Rock is unlike any other workplace comedy on television. Dancing to its own comic rhythms, the series takes great delight in tweaking sitcom clichés and conventions. In “The Bubble,” the scene is set for a montage of Id-driven Tracy Jordan’s (Tracy Morgan) wackiest moments on the show. Instead, Liz dreamily reflects, “I’m thinking of some of them right now.” Family Guy’s got nothing on 30 Rock when it comes to the surreal arbitrary gag, as when naive NBC page Kenneth (Jack McBreyer) realizes he is being sexually harassed by a Miss Vierra (Meredith from The Today Show), or when sociopathic, narcissistic Jenna is taught a lesson by the writers who have banded together as the feathered Fedora-clad Pranksmen. 30 Rock makes truly inspired use of the actors, TV icons, and musicians who appear this season. In “Believe in the Stars,” Oprah Winfrey, smelling of “rose water and warm laundry,” hilariously appears as herself, kind of. In “The One with the Cast of Night Court,” Jennifer Aniston is upstaged by Harry Anderson, Markie Post, and Charles “Mac” Robinson. Salma Hayek makes for an exotic love interest for Jack in a multi-episode arc.
The season finale features Sheryl Crow, Clay Aiken, Elvis Costello (a.k.a. Declan McManus, international art thief), Adam Levine, and others brought together for a benefit to find a kidney for Jack’s long-lost father (Alan Alda). But the joy of 30 Rock is not the stars, but such brain-tickling lines as, “I watched Boston Legal nine times before I realized it wasn’t a new Star Trek,” and the charming character grace notes, like seeing the world as Kenneth does, populated by Muppets. In the season finale, Liz remarks that she figures TGS (30 Rock?) has two years left. Say it ain’t so!
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