I watched the first episode last night on my DVR and I must say that I like the ambitousness of the dark comedy. Having the dad from Malcolm in the Middle turn from high school chemistry teacher to meth cooker is just funny to me.
The way he goes about doing [...]
I’m reminded that Sailor Moon had never actually seen any of the Rambo movies until Space Monkey and I showed parts 1 and 2 to him. Of course, badass action and using a bow to blow shit up was very appealing to him. That’s what we call a “weekend” at [...]
The pornstar that almost cost me my job, but who I would pick over answering the sports phone any day (I love you Eva Angelina, and I have the t-shirt to prove it), won an AVN award this weekend. To the uninitiated, that’s the porn equivalent of the Oscars.
I waited much too long to try and salvage some of my writing from Google cache. Thanks to someone for reminding me to try and do this so that I at least have clippings and it’s not like Cinema Toast never existed.
That’s probably the worst thing about this whole experience. [...]
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Again, I’m disappointed by moviegoers By nathan nance | Wednesday, December 26, 2007, 08:22 PM Why, oh why, do you people continue to go watch Nic Cage movies? He’s not an actor, he’s just a really annoying guy THAT SHOUTS FOR NO REASON AT ALL in the middle of some [...]
By nathan nance | Thursday, December 20, 2007, 07:41 PM
Somehow it ended up with the title “The Hottie and the Nottie.” Try and guess which one is the hottie. No, it’s not the girl other than Paris Hilton. Ha ha, I stumped you that [...]
By nathan nance | Friday, October 26, 2007, 12:43 AM
Unfortunately for Vietnamese actress Hoang Thuy Linh, one of her ex-boyfriend’s friends put a sex tape of her on the Internet. Unlike in America where people like Paris Hilton get publicicty and ratings for [...]
By nathan nance | Thursday, December 27, 2007, 06:57 PM
Cinematical has a post today titled “Is ‘Smallville’s’ Kristen Kreuk Chun Li?” Apparently they don’t even know what character she’s playing, just that she’s signed to star in a movie directed by the [...]
By nathan nance | Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 09:50 PM
Instead of picking the girl, Dani, she decided to go with the guy, Bobby. According to her blog post on the subject:
So here I am with Bobby. Yes, I know a lot of you wanted me [...]
By nathan nance | Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 08:13 PM
I know that Cloverfield is supposed to be the biggest monster movie of the coming year, but honestly, things are so screwed up with the marketing and with the thought of a giant [...]
The most popular Netflix rentals in Waco
By nathan nance | Tuesday, December 25, 2007, 11:03 PM
At the moment are 300 and Georgia Rule. There is quite the disparity there and I’m wondering if possibly all of you are schizophrenic.
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By nathan nance | Thursday, January 3, 2008, 08:23 PM
There is one kind of movie that we don’t really talk about at Cinema Toast. This is, after all, a niche blog and my niche is horror and sci-fi. I’m more likely to talk about Transformers than say, the [...]
By nathan nance | Tuesday, December 18, 2007, 08:50 PM
There are several movies coming out this week, but I honestly only think one is worth seeing: Sweeney Todd.
Some of you are going to kvetch and moan about Tom Hanks’ movie (I can’t stand Tom Hanks) [...]
By nathan nance | Tuesday, December 25, 2007, 08:35 PM
The thing I can’t stand about Christmas is Christmas.
It would be fine if it were just one or two days where family and friends got together to share in the holiday spirit. But that’s not what Christmas [...]
By nathan nance | Friday, October 26, 2007, 07:23 PM
The process for giving blood is a long one and I had an impatient photographer waiting for me to get stuck with a needle so he could go shoot a Friday night [...]
By nathan nance | Friday, October 26, 2007, 07:23 PM
The process for giving blood is a long one and I had an impatient photographer waiting for me to get stuck with a needle so he could go shoot a Friday night [...]
DVD: Ronald Reagan takes a Trip and starts killing hippies
By nathan nance | Monday, November 5, 2007, 12:21 PM
David Arquette stepped behind the camera to helm the slasher flick The Tripper. The basic idea is that a guy in a Ronald Reagan mask and blue power suit kills hippies in [...]
By nathan nance | Tuesday, October 30, 2007, 11:38 PM
Normally I make fun of Ghost Hunters’ live Halloween events because they are obviously reaching for ratings by inviting ECW wrestlers to join them on the hunt. They’re doing the same this year, but I’m [...]
By nathan nance | Thursday, December 20, 2007, 11:10 PM
I really hate watching Tom Hanks movies. Whether it’s When Harry Got Mail or Joe Versus the Leather Steamer Trunks or Castoff or whatever, I just can’t stand the guy. He’s one of those actors [...]
Well not really. The first weekend of January is sort of cut off with only one new movie and one movie expanding to more screens.
One Missed Call is a remake of Takashi Miike’s J-horror flick about people getting voicemail messages of themselves dying in the future. As Russ puts it, [...]
I’m guessing (and this is just speculation since I’m not a lawyer) that holding your toddler hostage, having the police kick the door in and having Britney Spears strapped to a gurney with police riding in the ambulance and then being put under 72-hour “crazy watch” (my non-legal term) may [...]
My penchant for self-destructive behaviour has led to the demise of Cinema Toast with Nate. Oh, don’t be sad. I brought it on my self.
It all started last night (wavy dream sequence with thematic music) I got a bulletin from on of my Top 4 Myspace friends, Eva Angelina, that [...]
My new blog is set up and I’ve already started posting. I finally settled on Cinema Toast with Nate. It just seemed right and I had to make a decision.
Things aren’t completely over here. I still have a lot of archives that I want to go through so I don’t [...]
I’ve got some good news and some bad news.
The good news is that after much lobbying, cajoling, pleading and selling… I’ve finally gotten a blog from the Trib. In the next week, I’ll be starting it up, moving my Movie Blog archives over to it and writing my own little [...]
That’s my favorite joke going around right now about a former Baylor assistant coach who “pissed on the bar” at Scruffy Murphy’s last Saturday night after the Bears’ devastating 58-10 loss to Kansas.
Those that know me know I used to spend every night at Scruffy Murphy’s with my co-workers and [...]
Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize. I probably should have mentioned that before Tila Tequila.
John Dickerson wonders if this will make him rethink running for the White House. He hasn’t said definitively “no way,” but I don’t think he really wants to. It was such a harsh experience last [...]
Apparently MTV has another reality show (Ed. note: Remember when you watched MTV for music videos? How old does that make me?) and this one stars Myspace hottie Tila Tequila.
In a twist on all those stodgy televised courtship tournaments, A Shot at Love sets 16 men and 16 women in [...]
Another football season, another year of the Red River Shootout. This year, I’m sad to say, I think the Sooners are going to win again. There’s no way that they cover the 11-point spread; just as a matter of pride Colt McCoy can’t let that happen.
If they do beat the [...]
The Yankees lost today in 11 innings, meaning the Indians lead the series 2-0. Boston is holding its own, it’s tied at 3 all after winning Wednesday’s game against the Angels 4-0. And the Cubs are still cursed.
(Ed. note: This is in no way my own work, I did not [...]
If you have a daughter under the age of 18, DO NOT DATE A MAN NAMED CHESTER!
Chester the Molestor, how hard is that to figure out? Oh, and if you have a daughter older than 18 who is hot, do not date a younger man with tattoos; he will end [...]
Timothy Noah over at Slate thinks that Bush’s veto of the S-CHIP reauthorization is bound to grease the wheels for those of us who want universal health care. I’m a little skeptical, but still hopeful, that he’s right about that.
S-CHIP has become a very important program for a lot of [...]
For those of you who know me, October is just about my favorite month. Halloween is my favorite holiday. There’s just something about fall leaves, candy and R-rated horror movies that make me happy.
What doesn’t make me happy are parades that block the parking lot at work. The HOT Fair [...]
Slate seems to be taking the approach that sex sells because they have several stories today about sex.
Probably the creepiest is William Saletan discussing lowering the age of consent. He breaks consent down between three distinct areas: biological readiness which is around 12, age of cognitive readiness which is around [...]
I’ve been wrapped up in work at the Trib. It is football season after all. That means I work 5-6 days a week, daytime on Mondays and that my sleep cycle is thoroughly wrecked. I haven’t gotten a decent 7 hours of straight sleep in forever.
And I’m practically living off [...]
Kathy Griffin managed to get the one reliably irate group to help spread her name around town: Christians.
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) — Members of a Christian theater troupe are spreading the word that they’re irate about Kathy Griffin’s off-color speech in accepting a creative arts Emmy earlier this month.
The Miracle [...]
I spent four minutes just now watching our president speak about the surge’s success in Anbar and I swear if I hear about Anbar being a success anymore, I’m going to hit someone over the head with my cane!
You know how we drove out AQI (all 200 of them) out [...]
President Bush has decided, after sober assessment of our military and political victories on the ground in Iraq, that he can drawdown 30,000 troops by the middle of next year. I think, this is a reasonable move on his part.
Really, is it so hard to write the truth at the [...]
I wanted to write something beautiful and poignant about the 6th anniversary of the tragedy, but I don’t have the time or the inclination.
In truth, I’m still as angry and confused about that day as I was standing in the counselors’ office at MCC watching the events unfold live. I [...]
All the guys at CHUD took the time to bad-mouth, trash-talk and generally snub (and that’s putting it kindly) Rob Zombie’s version of Halloween.
This is in stark contrast to my review, which was generally glowing with praise. All the things they hated, were things I found great. It seems like [...]
Apparently, the chick from High School Musical (hold on, let me look up her name) Vanessa Hudgens has some totally, not anywhere near safe for work, full-frontal nudity pictures floating around on the Internet.
I agree with the dude from The Superficial, her rep is an idiot for even confirming that [...]
I’m referring, of course, to Halloween. Christmas is nice and all, but you have to admit, Halloween is a more fun holiday. There is dressing up, a lot of fun ghost stories, the weather is usually great, candy and, if you go to the right Halloween party, a very good [...]
I’ve been working at the Trib nearly 5 years now and I still don’t get to do the picks box. Not even the college picks box, something I know about.
So, if you wanna complain with me, send Jerry Hill and email and tell him to let me in! I [...]
Iraq isn’t so much a quagmire as it is a training ground for jihadists.
When the United States struck Afghanistan in 2001, “there were probably 3,000 core Al Qaeda operatives,” says [John] Arquilla of the Naval Postgraduate School. “We killed or captured about 1,000; about 1,000 more ended up in distant [...]
From the Desk of
Jim Dunnam
State Representative, District 57
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           I want to take this opportunity to ask you to join me in welcoming State Representative Rick Noriega to Waco. Rick is running for the United States Senate and I would invite you to come visit with Rick and see what [...]
You can take that as a joke if you want to, but they are reporting that Afghanistan’s opium production is at “frightening levels.”
Afghanistan is now responsible for 93 per cent of global opium production, according to the UNODC.
“The amount of Afghan land used for growing opium is now larger than [...]
Alberto Gonzales has resigned, to be replaced by the Solicitor General Paul Clement as interim AG. As you can imagine, many Democrats and just about anyone who has not had a hemispherectomy are ecstatic. Here is the text of his resignation speech.
Of course, just because Fredo’s gone doesn’t mean [...]
Today several of the U.S. intelligence agencies released a report that paints a grim outlook for the future of Iraq… politically.
The assessment, known as the National Intelligence Estimate, casts strong doubts on the viability of the Bush administration strategy in Iraq. It gives a dim prognosis on the likelihood that [...]
My new little sister has ended her visit with us and gone back home to Ballinger.
I have to say that I’m sad; I liked having her around. At the same time, now that she is gone, I get to have my sanity back. I’ve been subsisting on 5 hours of [...]
As Bruce Fein says in Wednesday’s Slate, we can’t just take impeachment off the table.
Not when our brilliant commander-in-chief believes that we should have staid in Vietnam and uses that analogy to keep us in Iraq.
The president said US involvements in Vietnam and in other places in Asia was not [...]
Not being the techno-geek that I should be to really speak about this problem, I can only tell you it has given me a headache.
I don’t know which one I’m going to have to fork over the dough to buy in the future so that I can watch movies on [...]
For the past week my new little sister Kiddo has been staying with us.
After 24 years of being an only child, it is taking some adjustment. Especially since she tries really hard to make a lot of jokes and be really hyper. So I alternatingly get really mad at her [...]
High school volleyball has been going on for about a week now, even though most schools haven’t started classes, and already I can’t stand these people. How hard is it to give me the winning team and their score?
Really! These fucking morons give me the losing school first and their [...]
The only time I have ever said “Hey, I think Rick Perry is right,” (and it was hard to say. I had to have a shot of gin afterward.) was when he wrote the executive order to vaccinate every girl over the age of 12 with Gardasil to prevent infection [...]
Bonds just hit home run number 756. I demand that he take a piss test right now!
[...]Seeing as how people keep clicking on here, I should probably update you all on my life and what is going on.
Lot o’ pills: I’m taking about 40mgs of Vicodin a day now. My tolerance seems to have leveled off there and it covers me on good and bad days [...]
I was at my doctor’s office today to get my new Vicodin script and go over some of the paperwork I have to have at next Friday’s meeting with the Social Security Disability people.
He told me that there can be a two-year donut between when you get declared “disabled” and [...]
Space Monkey and I traveled all the way to the Bob Bullock Museum of Texas to watch the new Harry Potter movie. We must be dedicated, well, at least as dedicated as you can be without ever having read any of the books.
Believe me, it was worth the extra price [...]
I splurged and bought 2 tickets to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at the IMAX in 3-D for Saturday night. It’ll be me and Space Monkey painting Austin some paisley color for the night. It’s been far too long since we just went down and had [...]
While driving down Franklin the other day I noticed a beautiful vintage Mustang at what I thought was a car dealership. I got so excited that Common Sense Mom actually drove my car over there the next day to talk trade on my 2002 Cavalier.
Turns out, it wasn’t for sale. [...]
Many a fan is waiting for midnight Friday when they can purchase (legally) a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. They are speculating themselves into coronary disease over the fate of a fictional character. I myself am going to purchase a copy on Amazon.
I’m also headed to Wal-Mart [...]
Some of us have been saying for years that all we’re doing is increasing our chances of being attack by terrorists again by staying in Iraq. Funny, that’s what the whole of the intelligence community thinks too:
Let’s put together the syllogism: Al-Qaida is more inclined to attack the United States [...]
I took my own advice and brought two more people with me to see SiCKO last night at the theater: My mom and my mom’s new boyfriend, Buddy.
Unfortunately, all three showings were sold out! Word is getting around and I don’t care if you are a Republican, a Democrat, an [...]
Then you may have noticed I used old school Frylock for my Drive-Thru review as my rating standard. Originally, the Aqua Teens were corporate mascots that had taken over the show on the old Space Ghost: Coast to Coast show (Episode Baffler Meal). I don’t think there was even a [...]
The centerpiece art for tomorrow’s sports section was supposed to be local little leaguers. But the game has been rained out because of a massive downpour and the sports desk is scrambling to find something to replace it with.
I suggested we take all that Evan Almighty art that we ran [...]
This post was originally going to be titled “How much wood could a woodchipper chip if a woodchipper could chip you?” I rented Woodchipper Massacre and was all excited when I popped it into the DVD player. Dead Mary had been sort of iffy and I was looking forward to [...]
Or murder, I’m not sure which it would be yet.
I’ve talked before about my doppleganger on this site and I’m sure you readers thought I was being paranoid or funny or whatever. The fact is, I’m not. For many years now I’ve been confused with him by many people and [...]
This is one of those times when I actually get to say something knowledgeable about someone famous who has passed away.
I had the good fortune to actually meet Lady Bird Johnson a couple of years ago at a taping of Texas Monthly Talks. Evan Smith was interviewing Jim Lehrer because [...]
How come Sasha Grey gets to be friends with Bill Corgan and I don’t?
Soooooo okay…. recently a few people have been asking me is that little old you tucked within the art work for the new Smashing Pumpkins album Zeitgeist ….why yes it’s little old me playing a part a [...]
You know things are getting dirty in presidential politics when the unofficial Sam Brownback Myspace site is asking you to join the “Ron Paul Supporters Suck” group.
Should I join the group. I mean, as far as viability goes, Ron Paul has more money in the bank [...]
I kinda wanted to see it anyway. I don’t know if any of you know this, but I happen to be a Michael Moore fan. For Fahrenheit 9/11, I managed to get my mom to drive us to Austin so we could see it together.
She was just as outraged as [...]
Usually for the 4th of July, I repost a story I did on flag burning and taking flag worship to a level beyond what it should be. After all, what good is a symbol of freedom if you lose the freedom to use that symbol.
But this year I say “Move [...]
Where you just want to sleep and vomit? Well, I’m having one now.
It’s either because of my mom’s cooking or something else. I was upchucking in my trashcan before I even heard about any commutations, so that can’t be it.
It was probably a combination of bad guacamole, the increased pain [...]
At least that’s what she told Larry King on last night’s live interview.
HILTON: I have been on medication since I was a child. I have ADD. So I take medication for that.
KING: That’s the only thing you deal with, attention deficit Disorder?
HILTON: Yes.
KING: Have you ever been addicted to drugs?
HILTON: [...]
I used to root for this guy way back in junior high when me and my cousin Dave were WCW fanatics. We were total nuts for Sting and Rowdy Roddy Piper. We even had a sleepover to watch a Pay-Per-View special one Christmas in 8th Grade.
ATLANTA - Pro wrestler Chris [...]
NBC has canceled its post-jail interview with Paris Hilton.
NBC has canceled their $1 million interview with Paris Hilton, most likely from the pressure of the entire world calling them ass clowns. No official reason was given, but NBC is backtracking and saying they never sealed the deal on the [...]
Ron Paul, fast becoming THE most popular presidential candidate on the Web, is strong on the issues.
But is he strong enough to defeat the Loch Ness Monster? Let’s watch the debate before deciding for ourselves. And remember, he’s got that whole Ron Paul dollar thing backing him up, so he’s [...]
Apparently, NBC is going to pay Paris Hilton $1 million for her first after-jail interview.
Let me say that again. They are going to pay a billionaire hotel heiress $1 million to talk about her 23 days in jail. I don’t want to scare anyone, but I’m starting to understand why [...]
Apparently he has left the GOP and switched his registration to “unaffiliated.”
NEW YORK - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday switched his party status from Republican to unaffiliated, a stunning move certain to be seen as a prelude to an independent presidential bid that would upend the 2008 race.
The [...]
Sad to say, American horror films started going downhill fast in the 1980s.
There was a time when Universal’s horror films ruled the box office and sequels meant The Wolfman meeting Frankenstein’s monster with Bela Lugosi in some role. Do you remember the first time you saw John Carpenter’s Halloween? The [...]
Apparently, people who want to vacation in the Western Hemisphere have found a backlog of passports being issued and vacations have been ruined.
The demand soared at the beginning of the year, as travelers sought to comply with a new rule requiring passports for all U.S. citizens flying within the Western [...]
Or rather, to write on. From my Myspace:
IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR RON PAUL SUPPORTERS
We all know public media is trying to ignore and pass over some of the important things this man has to say! Well here it is, the simplest way to get his name out there! I have a [...]
(Ed note: I knew adding a whole category category tag for Gina Parker would come in handy.)
My local harpie, Gina Parker, is circulating a piece around the capitol crowd (pdf) accusing Paul Burka and the others at Texas Monthly or being racist, sexist and “wine and brie Democrats.”
Obviously I [...]
“Hey, I got some beers! Let’s drink ‘em!”
The immortal words of Clifford “Cliff” O’Malley (Cochran Munro) in 1998’s Dead Man on Campus. You can almost picture Jay Chandrasekhar and the rest of the Broken Lizard comedy troup watching this movie while taking bong hits standing up and saying “Guys… I [...]
Paris Hilton has been ordered back to jail! A judge actually ordered her to go back to the place she checked out of after 5 days to serve her original term of 45 days, minus the 5 she’s already done.
Just look at that picture. I just want [...]
Paris Hilton is no longer in prison. She was in danger of having a nervous breakdown, according to her psychiatrist, so they let her go home.
Psychiatrist Charles Sophy visited Hilton in jail yesterday and the day before. We’re told after Sophy’s visit yesterday, word was passed to the Sheriff that [...]
I actually saw a guy driving a black Suburban with a bumper sticker that read:
STOP GLOBALISM
VOTE RON PAUL 2008
For those of you who don’t know, Ron Paul is in my Top 24 Myspace Friends… right next to Transexual Porn Star Saigon Lee. But below Jesus and The Dude. We’ve [...]
The English pioneer of medicine Thomas Sydenham once said of opium:
“Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.”
Truly I believe him, and I believe Galen when he spoke of its effectiveness.
But [...]
I’ve had this post about Chubs dying up top for nearly a week and its gotta be bumming some of you out. How about we put up the shot of Paris Hilton after getting booked?
And this link to Sarah Silverman ragging on Paris at the MTV Movie [...]
