Rain Jokinen

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• Posted Before There Was Timberlake: Jersey Boys to Culture/Entertainment
  My first introduction to The Four Seasons came from the 1979 Phillip Kaufman movie The Wanderers, centered on gangs in early 1960s Bronx, New...
• Commented on San Francisco's Caftan/Coat Conundrum: Opinions Needed
  The secret is to wear the warmth under the caftan! Jockey makes some thin thermals.... http://www.jockey.com/Catalog?department=women&category=long-underwear Problem solved!...
• Posted Not What You Think It Is: Side Effects to Culture/Entertainment
  Director Steven Soderbergh and writer Scott Z. Burns have created a bit of a pickle with their new thriller Side Effects, because to discuss...
• Posted Better Than Twilight: Warm Bodies to Culture/Entertainment
  When I first heard about Warm Bodies, and saw the trailer, I immediately joked it was Twilight with zombies, something akin to the SNL...
• Posted If Only This Were Out Of Sight: Parker to Culture/Entertainment
  By screening the Jason Statham movie Parker for critics the night before the movie opens, the studio is pretty much letting the world know...
• Posted Questionable Accents: The Last Stand to Culture/Entertainment
  Arnold Schwarzenegger has his fans. I mean, he must! You don't go from being one of the top action stars of the 1980s, to...
• Posted A Huge Downer: Skyfall to Culture/Entertainment
  I have a complicated relationship with the James Bond movies. For me, no Bond will ever top Sean Connery, as I prefer a suave...
• Posted Dull Sameness: Cloud Atlas to Culture/Entertainment
  On Monday the 22nd of October, 2012, I had to attend a screening of Cloud Atlas. This meant missing the majority of the game...
• Posted Absolutely Terrific: Argo to Culture/Entertainment
  I'm not sure why I continued to have doubts about Ben Affleck: Director. His previous efforts, Gone Baby Gone, and The Town are both...
• Posted Not What You Expected: Looper to Culture/Entertainment
  Writer and director Rian Johnson, (someone I think I should marry just because, seriously, Rian and Rain?), came out of the gate strong with...
• Posted Blind Crankiness: Trouble With The Curve to Culture/Entertainment
  After seeing Clint Eastwood's infamous RNC performance, I began to ponder what the last Clint Eastwood movie I'd seen that I actually liked was--I'm...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Plagiarism! Drugs! Sex! Superman! to Culture/Entertainment
  The Words - Everywhere Plagiarism is so in right now! Bradley Cooper plays a writer who writes an OK novel, but then finds a...
• Posted Appealing TV: Coma, DNC, Flipping Out to Culture/Entertainment
  Fall premieres will start to populate the airwaves next week, so consider this your final respite from the onslaught on the new, groveling for...
• Posted Nothing New: Lawless to Culture/Entertainment
  Musician and writer Nick Cave has once again teamed up with Australian writer and director John Hillcoat for a film about lawless brothers. Their...
• Posted Appealing TV: Conjoined Twins, The Exes, Breaking Bad Winds Down to Culture/Entertainment
  TLC is the channel you watch when there's nothing on, you're just channel surfing, and as you pass by stations you see a flash...
• Posted Better Than Its Set-Up: Robot and Frank to Culture/Entertainment
  It's hard not to laugh at the idea of a movie about a robot who takes care of an aging Frank Langella. I had...
• Posted Appealing TV: Haunted High, America's Next Top Model: College Edition, Harvey Keitel On Lifetime to Culture/Entertainment
  Tonight, the finale of the too brief first season of "Bunheads" airs at 9 P.M. on ABC Family. Being a big fan of "Gilmore...
• Posted Appealing TV: Hotel Hell, Stars Earn Stripes, Grimm to Culture/Entertainment
  The Olympics are officially over, and I ended up watching a total of 15 minutes of it. It was women's gymnastics, and a bunch...
• Posted Mastering The Measured Tones: Hope Springs to Culture/Entertainment
  Hope Springs is being sold as a comedy along the lines of Something's Got to Give or It's Complicated: a romantic comedy for the...
• Posted Appealing TV: Honey Boo Boo, Shark Week, W. Kamau Bell to Culture/Entertainment
  OK, this is more like it! Show previews! Animals! Toddlers! Sharks! And tonight! The season finale of "Miss Advised," a Bravo show about three...
• Posted Relentlessly Adequate: Total Recall to Culture/Entertainment
  I'm of the opinion that the original Total Recall is an awful movie, and by "awful" I mean "amazing." It's so amazing in its...
• Posted Appealing TV: Supermodels, John Wayne, Bob Marley to Culture/Entertainment
  The Olympics are on, and it seems like no one really wants to challenge that with any good counter-programming, so this week is slim...
• Posted Appealing TV: CLIOS, 3, London Olympics to Culture/Entertainment
  I was on vacation for just over a week, basking in 100+ degree heat in Palm Springs, and as part of that vacation, I...
• Posted Appealing TV: Perception, Breaking Bad, Damages to Culture/Entertainment
  Looks like we've gone from a holiday week, where there really wasn't much new to watch, to a week that feels like it belongs...
• Posted Appealing TV: What To Watch July Fourth to Culture/Entertainment
  Since I've lived in San Francisco my entire life, my Fourth of July memories are not filled with fond remembrances of warm picnics in...
• Posted Peter Parkour: The Amazing Spider-Man to Culture/Entertainment
  I'm not even going to pose the question, "Do we really need a reboot of Spider-Man already?" because, the answer seems to be pretty...
• Posted Never Really Reaching Half-Mast: Magic Mike to Culture/Entertainment
  I'm disappointed that Entertainment Weekly's "Libby Gelman-Waxner"* beat me to the punch in calling Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike the Citizen Kane of male stripper...
• Posted Appealing TV: SF Locals In XIII and Oddities, Real World Hits St. Thomas, Charlie Sheen Returns To TV to Culture/Entertainment
  I hate to dwell on it, but I'm not going to pretend that I am not STILL sad about not having "Mad Men" on...
• Posted Appealing TV: Snooki and JWoww, Futurama, Tall Hot Blonde to Culture/Entertainment
  Ahhh. Summer TV, where reality reigns. Tonight sees the premiere of two new offerings in the genre that just won't die. At 10 P.M....
• Posted Watching Someone Else Play "Rock Band" For Two Hours: Rock of Ages to Culture/Entertainment
  Frankly, I didn't know what to think of Rock of Ages going into it. Before it even began, I was pondering who would actually...