Adam reviews the new scary movie remake: The Crazies.

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Rated R – 1h41 -

The Crazies is capable horror film. It’s tense, and a little smarter than the average scary movie. It needed a little more dread and fewer predictable things jumping out from the dark at you.

The film is a remake of Horror God George Romero’s 1973 “The Crazies,” and manages to achieve the task of doing a good job with it.

Small town Iowa Sheriff David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) finds himself at the center of town gone crazy after a military jet carrying secrets crashes nearby. One by one, the town’s residents turn into murderous psychotics and no one can explain why.

I wouldn’t say the town folk are turning into zombies, but rather the do not kill instinct in their brain gets turned off.

The film is set in Iowa, but a rather generic looking military force is sent into clean up the mess. It seems like it would be the U.S. military that’s sent on a contain-and-eradicate mission, but it’s not clear.

What is clear, is the idea of who’s crazier? Is it the infected locals, or the government that’s bringing down a big hurt on its own citizens? Who are the hero’s to run from? The infected or the military? Is this a horror story, or a man without a country whose on the run?

In my head, those ideas muddied what seemed to be a pretty good idea for a scary story. Adding in the tension where the viewer and the characters in the film can’t quite tell whether a person is infected, or just way stressed out is a nice touch.

It’s not bad, but Romero always adds a far superior gloom to his work. It was a little lost on this one.

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     This weekend, we’re counting down the top 70 songs of the 70s.  And we have 70 reasons to love the 70s here.  When I checked out the list, #15 popped out at me.  “Nancy Drew” mysteries. 

     See, I’m a “Trixie Belden” girl myself.  She’s a little different from Nancy, a bit younger, at 13.  Trixie and her friends Honey Wheeler and Di Lynch (along with Trixie’s brothers and other friends) are in a club they formed called Bob-Whites of the Glen.   There are 39 books in the series and believe me when I tell you I’ve read each one many, many times.  Books 1 through 15 have been reissued–grab ‘em for the girl who loves to read in your life!

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This morning the screen blinked at me,  ”Brett Favre to apppear on Tonight Show.”

“Ok, sounds good, ” I thought, yawning and still waking up around 4am.  Then the coffee kicked in and I realized what this meant, this Favre Alert.

What this means, this appearance in the debut week of a high-profile national show coming back from a high-profile divorce, means that Brett Favre will announce that he is returning to football next season.

Or, it’s the start of the What-Will-Brett-Do season. But I’m betting on the former, and here’s why:

If Brett ever really decides to hang it up, he won’t do it on the Tonight Show, no matter how big the tune-in might be. He knows that he can outdraw Jay for viewers any day, and would want to control fully how and when that info would be released.

If he really hasn’t yet decided what he will do, then making this appearance would just serve as the green flag to start the WWBD season, which he would do only if the theory that some people have is true- that his ego is larger than the mountains in Vancouver.  

Now, if he has decided that he will return to football, a less dramatic and fairly common decision for Brett, well then the spotlight of the Tonight Show would be a great place to announce that, wouldn’t it?

What do you think?

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The gross, nasty 140 year old hot dog…or this reporter’s Brooklyn accent.

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     So, headed to the airport today to pick up my mom and she’s clearly bringing the Florida sun with her.  Now, if we could just work it out to where she brought Florida temperatures with her as well…I don’t know though, it’s been chilly down there lately.  I mean, we’d be wearing short sleeves here if we had temps in the 40s now.  But Floridians are bundled up and complaining.  I do think after a weekend of highs of only near 30, my mom at least won’t be complaining that much anymore!

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Ricky Gervais

Found this list today, and it got me thinkin’.

I would add Ricky Gervais, in any character role. Don’t know if you’ve seen Archer, the new FX show yet, but Archer is golden. And while they picked Dwight from The Office for their list, I’d put Andy from the same show on mine, because nobody brings the crazy, with artistic flair, like Andy does.

Others who make my list of funniest current tv characters: Phil on Modern Family, and Brian, the dog from Family Guy.

Who would you add to this list?

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     American Idol judges Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson have both openly admitted to wanting a girl to win this season’s singing competition.  But right now, on a betting site, the odds on favorite is contestant Andrew Garcia at 4 to 1.  

     But I am not a betting woman.  Nope, not me.  I champion contestant Crystal Bowersox.  She is the calmest, coolest, most collected contestant I can ever remember.  And when Simon mouthed off last night that she needed to be more original…Crystal calmly and quickly reminded him contestants can’t sing original songs.  Which just begs the question, how many original songs has she written and when do we get to hear them?!?

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You’ve heard of Ole’ Miss right?

The University of Mississippi was featured in Sandra Bullock’s movie “The Blind Side” but it’s also the center of a mascot battle, which may only be resolved by using “the force.”

They wanted to get rid of old southern references, so they ditched their old mascot Colonel Reb. The students are voting on who should be the new mascot and the guy leading the way is Admiral Ackbar. You may remember him from “Return of the Jedi” where he held the title Supreme Commander of the Rebel Alliance fleet and had the famous line “It’s a trap.” (see below)

So the question is, can this Mon Calamarian make the cut? It’s a pretty cool title he has. Ole’ Miss are the “rebels.” Supreme Commander sounds a little dictator-esque, but hey, we’re talking about winning games.

Don’t forget, he won’t be fooled by trick plays. The guy obviously knows when its a trap.

I say may the force be with you Admiral.

Now you can really geek out with the outtakes:

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I found this while wasting time at work today. Who woulda thought that dog’s hate Law & Order?

Are they upset with the splintering into Criminal Intent and SVU, or is there something deeper. A lot of people have tried it, check out the results. Its weird.

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