On Fancast: Today’s Highlights: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Young People F**king, Flipping Out, And More!

TELEVISION

1. Flipping Out: Preview Special Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration, or, if you’re multi-million dollar house-flipper Jeff Lewis it’s “25% fruit punch, 15% lemonade, 25% Sprite, and 35% water.” Watch and learn.

2. 30 Days: 30 Days In A Wheelchair - Two-time Super Bowl champ Ray Crockett spends 30 days in the shoes of paralyzed former teammate Mike Utley by going without the use of his legs. Not that you didn’t already guess it, but it isn’t easy.

3. The Jonas Brothers: Surprise - The singing siblings get quite a surprise on tour.

MOVIES

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - There are many movies one hears described as a “mindf–k,” but rarely is the term taken as literally as it is in Michel Gondry’s brilliant collaboration with writer Charlie Kaufman called Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which was the follow-up to Gondry’s debut film Human Nature. The screenplay was so crazily original that it won Gondry, Kaufman and Pierre Bismuth the Academy Award back in 2005. The movie’s title is from an Alexander Pope poem about tragic love, and that’s what this film delves into. Jim Carrey reminds us once again of his great dramatic capabilities in the role of Joel Barish, a withdrawn man who finds himself inexplicably drawn to a green-haired impulsively free woman named Clementine Kruczynski (the always, always fantastic Kate Winslet). Neither of them recall that they used to be lovers for two years, thanks to a huge fight they had that prompted Clementine to go to Lacuna, Inc. and get all her memories of the relationship erased. Joel was devastated when he found his out, and underwent the same procedure - but partway through the process, his mind rebelled and struggles to hold on to the love he treasured so much. We bear witness to this fractured mental landscape and how Josh tries to outrun the brain damage he’s brought upon himself. Meanwhile, the employees of Lacuna supervising the procedure - the two tech goofs (Elijah Wood, Mark Ruffalo) and the head of the company (Tom Wilkinson) and his assistant (Kirsten Dunst) - have a lot more going on in their world than just this one man’s targeted erasure. It’s captivating, amazing and full of observations about the nature of love, remembrance, relationships and whether or not the pain of loss is a price worth paying for the precious experiences of life.

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Young People F**king If you came looking for porn, you’re out of luck. However, the raunchy and caustic Canadian film Young People Fucking takes the interweaving stories of human connection in films such as Love Actually to the logical next step of, essentially, Sex Actually. Five stories - the Friends, the Couple, the Exes, the First Date and the Roommates - looking at sex in five different ways comprise the film, and considering the buzz around it, people really seem to respond to the universal themes of awkardness within desire. It’s in the Toronto Film Festival and a pleasantly surprised Roger Ebert has said this about the controversial title: “It calls attention to itself and generates publicity, but it doesn’t suggest that this will be a good-humored, thoughtful, observant film, which it is.”

BLOGS
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