Saturday 27 June 2015

My vote for Funniest Movie Actress



Let's give some female credit where female credit is due. When it comes to comedians, we can all name off 10 'Go-To' actors we like or expect to see in comedies. Most of them will have Saturday Night Live Credits. So I'm going to give this a try; the first 10 comedians to pop into my head.
Steve Martin, Steve Carrall, Jim Carey, Adam Sandler (I will use the term loosely for him nowadays), David Spade, Ed Helms, Rob Schneider, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Ben Stiller.

There's a lot more of course, but those are just the first 10 that came to mind. Now try that for women... It gets a lot harder. Kirsten Wiig has been in near every movie recently that required an 'approachable, yet funny' female role; she really came into her own in Bridesmaids. There was also Melissa McCarthy (I think that's her name, also in Bridesmaids). Cameron Diaz has had her fair share of laughers since Something About Mary, as has Malin Akerman in Heartbreak Kid aka Something About Mary 2 but I wouldn't consider Malin a household name just yet.

Then there's Leslie Mann. She's incredible and her list of comedies stretches over a decade. It helps in casting she's Judd Apatow's wife, no doubt. But she isn't defined by who she is married to. And she doesn't need to be to be looking to Judd for movie roles.

Thursday 4 June 2015

The Off-Season Game Plan; San Jose Sharks Edition

By now you know how this goes. I, without any help from any stats sites or office fan boys or any pay from the NHL head office go ahead and help decide what millionaire owners should do with their money and/or their team.

This time, I'm about to get all 'up in it' with the San Jose Sharks.


The San Jose Sharks recently lost the mantle of 'perennial Cup contender' to the Anaheim Ducks this year. The Sharks have consistently been picked to be one of the top challengers to the Cup at the beginning of each year since I can remember, which is technically 2003. And yet, they have never been able to make it to the Glory Land and ticket revenues of the Stanley Cup.

It all came to a head this year when the face of the franchise and their all-time assists leader Joe Thornton was stripped of his Captaincy. Then there was the things the press made into big deals but didn't really deserve any more thought devoted to it so you will have to look it up yourself in case you don't remember.