Lance & Matt: Isn’t It Bromantic?
While most of us enjoy a long holiday weekend stuffing our guts at picnics with family and friends, it’s refreshing somehow that Matthew McConaughey never takes time off from taking his shirt off. Here he is stoking the bromance with buddy Lance Armstrong as the fiercely fit duo hit the beach for a jog.
To see more stars addicted to showing off their hot bods, check out our Summer Skin gallery below.
Kyle XY: Grounded
(S02E17) “This family means everything to me.” - Kyle
The boy without a belly button was put under the microscope this week on Kyle XY. Okay, not a real microscope but still, the social worker asked tough questions to the Tragers and Kyle and visited the house to make sure Kyle was raised in a safe place. Because of this unexpected visit, the teens plotted and planned together in order to get rid of cases of beer and porn, hide Amanda and… take care of the tub situation. “Grounded” was pretty much a filler episode. The storylines didn’t really move forward and there wasn’t much new info revealed about the characters.
Kyle and Amanda
Kyle and Amanda moved their relationship one step further: they slept in the same bathtub. It was funny to see Kyle tell his girlfriend that her cheeks were pinker and that her body temperature was climbing and hear him tell her that he would give her a thinner blanket! He has so much to learn about relationships!
I’m really happy that this Amanda ordeal is over. If you ask me, this storyline was stretched too much. We get it, her mother is a pain in the behind and Amanda is not liking it at all. Can we move on now? I’m glad Amanda finally had the guts to tell her mother exactly how she felt and that things are somewhat going back in order at the Bloom house. We can now have Kyle focus back on his abilities and the bad guys.
Kyle and the Tragers
Kyle, as expected, gave a heartfelt speech about the Tragers and what they mean to him. Here is the list Kyle gave to the social worker:
- They gave him a seat at the dinner table when he had nowhere to go.
- Stephen gave up his workroom so Kyle could have his own place to sleep.
- Josh taught him how to play basketball.
- Lori shared her birthday with him.
- Nicole always makes him feel safe and protected even when he feels lost and scared.
After such a speech and seeing that nice lives in a nice room with a normal bed (good thing she didn’t look under the covers though), no social worker could have filed the paperwork to relocate Kyle to another family.
Brian and Jessi
What satisfied me most about “Grounded” was seeing more interaction between Brian and Jessi. We know Brian is up to no good and I can’t wait to know more. This week, we saw that he has a locked cabinet in which he placed different items such as a copy of a vinyl record. Why does he have a copy of the song? Yes, it could remind me a better time with Jessi’s “mother” but is there more to it? Some fans thought that Brian put the record under Jessi’s pillow but it clearly wasn’t him. Who did? My money is still on Foss.
Brian has really been working his way into Jessi’s brain. “Brian said you’d be like this. That I couldn’t count on you.” That sent shivers down my spine. Jessi is so possessive of Kyle that it’s unhealthy. She expects him to put his life on hold when she is there, even if it could mean that he could lose everything he holds dear. It looks like Brian is slowly creating a rift between XX and XY. It sounds like he wants his “daughter” to stop believing in Kyle and solely trust him (Brian) so he will have total control over her. You bet that this relationship can only end badly.
The social worker
The Tragers were told that Children Services were called because someone thought that Kyle was living without proper supervision and being disruptive to the community. We all, as did the Tragers, pointed the finger at Carol. When Amanda confronted her mother in front of the others, it is implied that Carol may have indeed filed the complaint. Sadly, the episode cut slightly before the end for me. We know that the social worker is answering to higher “evil” powers. Did we see who? So it can be assumed that Amanda’s mother didn’t make the call? Is she a real social worker working for both the Children Services and the bad guy(s)? If so, will she file the complaint against Nicole?
No matter the answer, we know the enemy is still watching Kyle closely. Speaking of the watching eye, who was in the car outside of the Tragers? Brian? Maybe he followed Jessi. Foss? Maybe he is back on the job. Who? Why?
Other scenes of interest
Lori saying that she is the most responsible one in the same sentence where she admits she is hiding beer for a friend!- Amanda and Jessi fighting over who knew Kyle better and who deserved his time was like watching two cats fight! Jessi will surely try to back stab Amanda a few more times to ensure that she wins Kyle over!
- Stephen warning Kyle that it is not good parenting to ask him to eavesdrop on Nicole and the social worker and then asking Kyle to continue!
Best lines of the week
- “My mom is going to kill me!” - Amanda
- “How could doing something so wrong, feels so right?” - Kyle
- “My guess is that she’ll be thrilled to get a break from her mother!” - Stephen
- “As if we’re the kind of kids who’d smuggle in one of their runaway girlfriends or something.” - Josh
- “I have to hide all my porn!” - Josh
- “Tap into that little cunning brain of yours and come up with something quick.” - Lori to Josh
- “The real problem is you have no idea and no interest in who I am and what I want.” - Amanda to Carol
More Gladiators coming to TV this fall - VIDEO
Do you like American Gladiators? How about a version that has kids competing instead of adults?
That was a concept of Gladiators 2000, a spinoff of the original version of American Gladiators. It aired for a couple of years in the mid-1990s (which is odd, considering it had “2000″ in the title - maybe they were optimistic), and now it’s coming back to syndicated television because of the success of NBC’s remake of the original AG. If you don’t remember the show, it was a little bit like the Nickelodeon show Guts. Contestants would engage in all these tests of strength and speed and accuracy while at the same time learning why carrots were good for you and too much pizza wasn’t.
The real gem about the video clip from the show (after the jump) isn’t the game itself, it’s the host — American Idol host Ryan Seacrest co-hosted the show. Check out his hair
Rant: This Is Absolute BS. Nation’s Critics Now Calling There Will Be Blood Best Movie Ever.
Editors Note: The following rant includes some very strong language. Please be advised…
You know those fake dipshits who voted for Bush (once, twice, whatevs) and now try to explain and express their sorrows about the Iraq “War” and the economy’s collapse to you? Yeah, my new keychain from Supreme says “F**k ‘Em” for a reason. But, yeah, those dipshits are not half as bad as all of these movie critics who are now jerking off Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood now that it’s safely tucked-in on DVD.
What a bunch of fucking cunts. Srsly.
How many articles do I have to read from “new-and-old-media” movie critics about why the general public doesn’t give a flying shit about movie critics anymore (the most unproven, self-obsessed employees in the Western World)? Nobody gives a shit because even when a film is as fucking fantastically great and earth-shaking as TWBB, these mocha-choking-assholes don’t have the guts to call it out until they can watch it “four times on DVD” and even then it’s still an “A- or B-minus.”
What is the deal? I understand why a pathetic college-educated, money-sucking wanker like Gregory Kirschling at Entertainment Weekly now calls TWBB a “masterpiece” after numerous viewings, after dissing it the first time. His first impression? The film was fucking “weird” and “with little of the flash or exuberance or life of PTA’s previous epics, Boogie Nights and Magnolia.” Are you fucking kidding me? I saw TWBB once and automatically knew it was light years beyond No Country For Old Men in every way. I smoked a huge joint and realized it was practically impossibly great! My editor Peter, who did not smoke a joint at all, agreed (seriously, our TWBB discussion is why I write for Slashfilm and love this site). When I saw the film two more times, I realized that the movie totally killed the very notion of God. Was I wrong? I honestly don’t care.
I have not read one “movie critic” discuss such implications, but that is what the public wants. They crave controversial, bizarre-even, opinions about today’s films. Not PR-pleasing bullshit. You want Pauline Kael? I don’t. She wasn’t fucking Mary, okay? I want new light. I don’t want Lester Bangs. No more death. I want young bloods who say what they think and then go party the night away.
I love CHUD (the site, the movie a lil’ less); but Devin’s review, while well worded, doesn’t come clean about what this film means and is about. Do we need PTA to get his bib dirty? I’m glad that Devin doesn’t refer to Plainview as “evil” as so many assholes have, but c’mon. The DVD is packaged like a Bible for a reason. This movie is about the end of religion in the face of American progress, as ugly as that concept is. It’s about being a man and facing off in a world full of supernatural, batshit “man in the sky” bullshit and how that can drive said man crazy, then and now. Get out of here Ghost! It’s about sons and fathers, when the father can’t have a son and how he looks at the world with that in mind. It’s about killing a God that doesn’t exist. It’s a fucking great movie and possibly in the top 10 ever made.
Critics, grow some huge balls. Do drugs. The world’s best scientists are (Adderall, so ‘04 btw). Live life, then watch movies. Don’t shrink in a chair. Get crazy. Come up with weird theories about new movies for the helluva it. Like Quentin Tarantino says, if you back up a cool review up with examples, they will come and cum. Stop pretending like you are immortal in the face of mainstream mediocrity. The Internet is now your pimp. Show some skin (not literally, please never), but get freaky.
TWBB is a fucking masterpiece and it shits all over No Country For Old Men. That is ALL. Either you said it then (LIKE WE DID AT SLASHFILM) or you are an idiot. Every scene of TWBB is worth 1,000 words. Here’s to the new generation.