If you are looking for some scarey movies to rent over Halloween Boston.com just published a Top 50 Scariest Movies list in slideshow format. You can just wheel through them and pick out a couple to rent from your neighbourhood store. There are a couple of good ones in there I had forgotten about and a few I have never seen. It also had a pile of hollywood fluff movies like Cloverfield which was just silly and not scary at all but hey it wasn't all bad.

If you want to see something even more scarier have a look at the bottom of the link page above at some of the gala pictures they have slidewhows for. Pretty teethy.

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With the Biggest Loser back in full swing there are lots of people looking to get their hands on the famous diets that have proves so successful on the show. You can get all a good collection of recipes and healthy eating tips right on their official website. Just head to The Biggest Loser Recipes page and start eating a little better. Remember,  healthy eating during the week means you can really let the booze and pizza fly on the weekend.

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So I tuned into  HBO’s True Blood for the second episode Sunday night. It moved a long much better and I can see how this is going to get interesting. The little meeting of vamps at Anna Paquin's boyfriends house gave me some hope that things are going to get good.

I couldn't help but notice in the bar a big display of Heinken beer bottles. A nice piece of advertising but I would doubt that anything besided Bud and Coors is being bought in that bar. Do they expect us to believe that those rednecks are toppping up for a premium beer? Doubtfull. I drink Heineken and still bitch about the price and I don't live in a trailer. Shame on you HBO, you should be finding sponsors like Billy Beer, Duff or Fudd.

Here's a gratuitous shot of Anna Paquin

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I know nothing of the novels that HBO's new series True Blood is based on but I do know that I love a good vampire story. Since it Alan Ball of Six Feet Under running the show I didn't want to miss it. What can be more exciting, modern day vampires living amongst us in the deep south and all of the racey scenes that HBO can get away with. They lost me 15 minutes into it. I was dying for a little excitement to get things going. Everything we have seen about vamps shows them to have super human strength and powers. How did the main vamp end up getting tied down and almost killed by a couple of redneck drunks? I couldn't buy it.

There were a few funny scenes though that will draw me back to see the next episode. I almost with when it was over that the show had been about Anna Paquin's telekinetic powers. Maybe a spinoff down the road. 

Photo From HBO

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All the people with bad taste must have been doing something else this weekend. Looks like they were too busy to see Nicolas Cage in his latest flop. It was the worst movie weekend in 5 years for movie goers. It would appear that people would rather stay at home and watch paint peel than go out and watch this cheeseball actor in another stellar appearance on film. The last weekend to post such poor results was the weekend after Labor Day in 2003, when the highest-grossing film was the David Spade flick "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star." Cage's movie only did a million more. Maybe it will be an eye opener for him to stop taking such stupid roles and get back to making decent movies. You know like Gone in Sixty Seconds and The Weatherman. Just kidding those are terrible too. It's a pattern.

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So, I just wasted an 123 minutes of my time wathing 21. The movie trailers descbribe "21" is the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings. I read a review on another website that said the movie was about as exciting as counting cards. Pretty much nailed it on the head. There was some eye candy but 6 superstar genius types that don't know enough to mix up their signals when counting cards in the same casinos over and over again. Please, I'm not even that smart and I could figure out that at some point you would have to change your signals. I didn't even get the fact that they all flew in and stayed together at the same place and met in the same room but they were undercover trying to take the casinos for money. Dumb. If you are bored and tired of watching Malcom in the Middle on Fox for the 400 billionth time then I guess it will do in a pinch.

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Wow, did I ever just waste 20 minutes of my life watching this stink fest. Even after that much time in I still can't tell you what this thing was about and how it ever made it to the movie theatres is way beyond me. I caught two scenes with the "reporter" in the movie. Walks across a police line and pulls the cover off a dead body on a gurney with nobody questioning him. When they do he says he with the press and shows his pass so it's all good. The next scene in a hospital the girl is under quarantine but because he flashes his press again he gets in to see her. I really need a press pass. If you see this one on tv, skip by it.

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