• ROSS DOUTHAT IS A FILM CRITIC: Hey, anybody want to see the new Judd Apatow movie about awful Adam Sandler saying unfunny things to “liked him better when he was fat” Seth Rogen and also Leslie Mann? No? Go with that impulse, because apparently Funny People is a morality play about America in which people are punished for their sins. And that is why Ross Douthat uses this film for masturbation material rather than using normal pornography, because porn would be cheating. [New York Times]

Commenter and amateur vetter “SwanSwanH” makes this shocking discovery on that other thread about how John Ensign considers it his Constitutional duty to probe Sonia Sotomayor for any symptoms of Idiot Cancer. It appears that less than two weeks ago, Sen. Ensign twatted that “Night At The Museum 2″ was “better than the first one,” a declaration wrought with symptoms of Idiot Cancer. [Twitter]

Oh brother, here we go again. Charlie Crist, the governor of Florida, is known for precisely two things: being orange, and having a dreadful porn mustache in the 1970s, which was the style at the time. Everybody likes to make jokes about how (allegedly!) gay he is, jokes that were only made more hilarious by his engagement to a lady right around the time last year that John McCain was supposed to pick him as his running “mate.” MORE »

Oh golly, a coterie of unpaid Hill interns has discovered a pair of famous Movie Stars walking around our Washington D.C.! Everyone loves the Movies, right? Well let’s share a Hill intern’s e-mail about famous liberals Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie having a sexy threesome with Nancy Pelosi today, and maybe some of you can send in pictures, or whatever it is one sends to a blog. (Pornography.) MORE »

Heartthrob angel of death Rahm Emanuel went to the movies Saturday night! He went to see a sports movie called The Wrestler at Washington’s E Street Cinema (the one that serves beer), and was getting all amped up to see Marisa Tomei’s boobs until the guy next to him had a seizure, at which point he just started cursing at everyone. MORE »

The Wrestler is a sad little story about Randy “The Ram” Robinson, a washed-up wrestler who spends his wages from his job at the supermarket on tanning sessions, hair appointments (for that fried, bleached-blond look) and the ‘roids. He devotes his whole life to the weekend, where he wrestles in local community centers and town halls for whatever money is thrown his way. MORE »

THE FULL LIST OF THE BEST CONSERVATIVE MOVIES OF THE LAST 25 YEARS: We’re giving up on writing about the rest of the National Review’s entries to “The Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years,” because enough with them right? We covered through #8, and The Corner has posted entries through #6. They force people who wish to see the rest of the list immediately (for hilarity) to buy a subscription to their wacky magazine. Well, enough with their useless games: here’s the full list, according to some heroic blogger. Be sure to check it out before he gets his cease-and-desist letter from NR’s attorney, Joe the Plumber. [The Same Dame]

THE 10TH, 9TH, AND 8TH BEST CONSERVATIVE MOVIES OF THE LAST 25 YEARS: “#10 Ghostbusters (1984): This comedy might not get Russell Kirk’s endorsement as a worthy treatment of the supernatural, but you have to like a movie in which the bad guy (William Atherton at his loathsome best) is a regulation-happy buffoon from the EPA, and the solution to a public menace comes from the private sector.” It’s a welcome bit of escapism, sure, because we all know that the private sector is constantly trying to destroy the country. MORE »

What the headline said! We’ll give the Corner credit for the unrolling of this special feature — it’s posted #25 - #13 only as of this minute — which makes us wait patiently for the full list UNLESS we purchase a National Review subscription. In other words, they managed to make us consider seriously subscribing to the National Review for a full three seconds. Such teases! Well, whatever, let’s discuss the first half of this historic list. MORE »

The foreign language film part of the Oscars is usually an agonizing experience, mainly because you’ve never seen the film before, and secondly, because you wish you had. Luckily, National Geographic is hosting “Global Glimpses,” a mini film festival running from Feb. 13-15, to update the Heath Ledger-obsessed masses on the Oscars’ 2008 foreign language film nominees. MORE »

Friday, Feb. 6: The Freer Gallery is screening Loose Rope tonight, a Persian film about two men who must deliver a cow to the northern part of Tehran in 24 hours, or else their jobs are at stake. Sounds like a typical American movie, except you’d have to replace “cow” with “cocaine” and “Tehran” with “Inglewood.” 7PM. [Smithsonian] MORE »