Entries from SFist tagged with 'borat'
July 25, 2007
Question: Is the world ready for a German-Jewish black comedy mercilessly satirizing Adolf Hitler? At yesterday night's screening of My Fuhrer (Mein Fuhrer -- Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit uber Adolf Hilter) at the SF Jewish Film Fest, the mood of wicked glee was somewhat sobered by the person that we abruptly realized was security standing in front of the theater. (Nothing happened, though, as far as we know.) The premise of the movie is that......
Continue Reading "SFJFF: My Fuhrer -- The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler"May 6, 2007
There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with......
Continue Reading "Week In -ists"February 18, 2007
With Rita's blessing, we bring you a brand new column called "We Read the Glossies." It's just like "We Read the Weeklies" only with monthly glossies. Here we review the February issues of Diablo, San Francisco Magazine, San Jose Magazine, and 7x7....
Continue Reading "We Read the Glossies"January 8, 2007
From NWZCHIK, we get today's batty neighbor story concerning someone in San Mateo who is drawing ire from her neighbors for scribbling messages supposedly from God all over her house. And by house, we mean like the roof and the walls. And her car. Which also has signs on top of it. Not all of the postings are about religion too, some are about politics and the deeds of the government. The house, actually, looks like this shed we had by our High School in which everyone from the Senior Class wrote graffiti on it to celebrate their graduation. ...
Continue Reading "Rod! Todd! This is God!"December 13, 2006
The San Francisco Film Critics Circle announced their season ending yesterday, something of which we are constantly told could mean something when it comes to the Oscars. The idea, we guess, being that these awards are like the NCAA brackets: Movie A wins the SF Flim Critics and movie B wins the LA Film Critics award, then they go off to meet the winner of the New York Critics Awards with the winner being the front-runner for Oscar gold. Or something like that. ...
Continue Reading "And the Winner Is...."November 19, 2006
Cultural Learnings of Blogosphere for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of -Ist-a-verse Jagshemash! Borat is a hit. It's getting rave reviews, grossing millions, and definitely the most quotable thing we've seen in ages. But Borat seems to have missed most of the -ist cities, and we were all wondering how the film would have been different if he'd made his way around the world on the -ist tour. In Shanghai, Borat would be observing Inane Learnings......
Continue Reading "Week in -Ist"November 8, 2006
That eavesdropping case we've been following took another step to eventually seeing the light of as an appeals court has decided to review the decision by U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker that the lawsuit should move forward despite the whining of the Federal Government. The eavesdropping case, for those who don't remember, was brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against the Government and AT&T for reading things they shouldn't be reading. Of what, we don't know but its super serious and of utmost importance to the War on Terror. And porn. We're sure somewhere they're checking out porn. ...
Continue Reading "Up the Judicial Branch"November 7, 2006
Election-free edition! --Are the A's moving to Fremont? --Ken Garcia enjoyed Borat. --They're going to start Translink (the one pass that works on all Bay Area public transportation systems) soon! BART, Muni, and Caltrain are expected to start accepting Translink in 2007. --Google's going to start buying ads in newspapers. Cute -- they call it "offline media." --YouTube wins Time Magazine's Invention of the Year award, beating out the cervical cancer vaccine and hypoallergenic cats.......
Continue Reading "Day Around The Bay"November 6, 2006
Niners 9, Vikings 3-- In all honesty, we didn't watch any of this game. We went to see Borat instead. And you know what we thought of the movie? It was fine but we're a little concerned in that for the next month or so ,everyone will be going around saying "high five" or "very nice" or even "va-GINA" in that faux-accent of his. Fear it. You want to know why we think David Chappelle went crazy? Because everywhere he went, every white guy would go up to him and either say "I'm Rick James, bitch" or the L'il Jon impression. It would drive anyone crazy. We're pretty sure the Bush administration uses it at Guantanomo....
Continue Reading "It's Got to Be the Morning After-- Part I"November 2, 2006
Last week's winner, the East Bay Express. DAMN Choreography objects to an article about them with the title "Tits and Assets." It's their special East Bay politics issue! Political bloggers wreaking havoc in Alameda, that Democrat running against Pombo might actually win, hipsters are voting for Aimee Allison. The EBX recommendations, plus a genius move -- polling people about fake propositions. We liked the school vending machine tax to go to anti-bullying programs, and the......
Continue Reading "We Read The Weeklies"October 1, 2006
As fall settles in and another calendar page gets turned, thoughts turn from bbq's and vacations to holidays and the realization that '06 is coming to an end. With all that going on, with change in the air, we wonder what is it that made that makes the -ists ponder? ...
Continue Reading "Week in -Ist"August 25, 2005
Our vulgar friend to the south, Defamer, points out why: California needs a man of unshakeable faith, a man who’ll stand up to the drug companies, a man who will outfit those slackers in Sacramento with some smart, nautical-themed uniforms. Plus, we'd have a first lady who doesn't look like skeletor! Okay, okay, this isn't ferreals. It's from a photoshop contest on Fark. Other nominees from Farkers include Christopher Walken (as a springboard to......
Continue Reading "Cruise in Ought-Six?"