Advantages: Funny a good watch Disadvantages: Too predictable.
When this was advertised at the cinema, I thought it looked quite funny, but I am one of those people who just doesn't get the time to go to the pictures, and by the time I DO finally get the time, the film I wanted to go and watch is no longer on! So when I saw this on Sky Box Office the other night, I thought it would be a good watch seeing as I was home alone for the night, and there was nothing else on TV, so I bought it for the night.
The film stars Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks, who play Zack and Miri in the film. Zack and Miri have been best friends since preschool and have grown up together. Now in their late twenties, they share a flat together. But, neither of them has ever grown up, and Zack still works in the same low paid coffee shop job as he has been in for years and Miri doesn't work at all, and so they're broke ...
Advantages: Funny, heartfelt, wholly endearing. Disadvantages: The OTT sex-banter (and situations) might be a bit much for some.
Zack And Miri Make A Porno, writer / director / cult hero Kevin Smith's latest slackers-with-seriously-dirty-mouths-being-hilario us opus, is an interesting picture for a number of reasons.
For one, it's one of the most explicitly (and explicit, as it happens) autobiographical films Smith has made, the film riffing throughout on his own experiences making his classic lo-fi debut Clerks. For another, it marks only the second time he has stepped out of the "View Askewniverse" within which the aforementioned debut was set (the first time being for 2004's sorely underrated Jersey Girl). And also, it marks the inevitable convergence of Smith and the Judd Apatow-produced comedies that have for the past couple years been threatening to topple him from his mantle.
To that end, Zack and Miri makes prominent use of Apatow cohorts Seth ...
Advantages: A fantastic book Disadvantages: You won't be able to put it down!
An Underground Education is written by Richard Zacks and is a treasury of information that you might not have seen anywhere else.
The book has an outrageously long subtitle: "the unauthorised and outrageous supplement to Everything you Thought you Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge."
Is that sub-title I any way accurate? Yes. It is. The book is an interesting collection of disparate yet fascinating facts about many different fields of knowledge.
The introduction reveals Zacks to be a very interesting person. Certainly he is as interesting as you would suspect the author of such a wonderful book to be. He decided to flunk college. And then proceeded to find professors in Italy who would teach him what he wanted to know. His plan to learn Italian at Perugia University in ...
