There is no shame in preferring the Pet Shop Boys to U2.
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ModernPost-it #4
The Pet Shop Boys’s rendition of “Go West” is the definitive version of the song.
ModernPost-it #3
The Pet Shop Boys’s rendition of “Always on My Mind” is as good as the ones by Willie Nelson and Elvis.
ModernPost-it #2
Any viewing of an infuriatingly inane film (e.g., The Terminator Does Vegas
Okay, it’s not exactly the Terminator, and not exactly Vegas. Instead, it’s a 19-year-old named Sean Stanley Smith who was strolling in the nude along the highway near the Nevada border until some motorists called the cops on him. When ordered to stop, Smith, in good old Terminator fashion, disobeyed and made his way into a casino. He was eventually tased by the police there, in full view of the casino patrons, which purportedly included a group a children. Gambling, nudity, and police violence, up close and personal: what more can a kid ask for from a family outing?
Smith claims that he is a Terminator from the future, but it turns out the whole debacle was fueled by LSD and pot. (Damn, almost had my hopes up for a second.) The police ultimately charged Smith with indecent exposure and resisting arrest.
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Trailer: Flame and Citron (2008)
Ah, Nazis and movies, an eternal love affair. From trashy fun (The Inglorious Bastards, Dead Snow) to thrilling heroic portraits (The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare) to insightful studies of humanity behind enemy lines (Das Boot and Schindler’s List), you’ve probably seen them all.
Flame and Citron looks like an addition to the last category. Directed by Ole Christian Madsen and starring Mads Mikkelsen (I really dug his turn as Le Chiffre in Casino Royale), the film promises to offer a healthy dose of dramatic turns, dark twists, assassinations, and a surprising number of explosions, all executed with the deadly seriousness of a mature comic book. Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds sounds like a yawn fest in comparison.
