Do it, Rockapella!
Previously on the Race: teams experienced the poverty of Ghana but still tried to sell them designer sunglasses and cable TV, Connor and Jonathan continued annoying everyone by singing when nobody asked, and a birth mother and daughter were eliminated before we got a chance to know them and before they got a chance to know each other.
Welcome to Ghana. Home to DVR rescheduling because some unimportant AFC teams decided to make their games last longer than a Yankees/Red Sox game, this African country was the second pit stop….in a racearoundtheworld. Continue Reading >>
Review: The Social Network
It seems odd that the subject of Facebook – a website that people use to simplify their lives and a substitute for spoken communication – would be embraced by a director as complicated as David Fincher and a writer as verbose as Aaron Sorkin. But make no mistake, you users of Farmville and Superpoke: The Social Network is far more than a thoughtless romp through the site’s growth from a few hundred to a few hundred million users. Instead, it’s a wickedly smart, bitingly funny look at how a social pariah created the most social website on the web, and it’s without question one of the best films of the year. Continue Reading >>
Ghana Make You Sweat
Previously on the Race: tall people squished into Smart cars, Ivy Leaguers barely made it out of Boston, and Phil’s accent disappeared even more, making Kiwis around the world weep. Oh, and ambiguously asexual team Tony and Ron got kicked off despite arriving in London first. Them’s the breaks.
Welcome to London, England. Home to London Bridge, the Tower of London and, despite what Nick and Vicki tell you, totally not a country unto itself, this was the first Pit Stop….in a racearoundtheworld. Continue Reading >>
Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat
Welcome to Gloucester, Massachusetts. For the next thirteen episodes or so, these eleven teams will do their best to win your affection and a million dollars, but most will be eliminated and you will grow to hate them. It’s time to start….a racearoundtheworld.
You know, they say that first impressions are everything, and Chad starts the Race by telling the viewers that he’s going to propose to his girlfriend Stephanie while Racing. Good luck, pal. Hope it’s at the first pit stop as you’re getting eliminated. Connor and Jonanthon, meanwhile, tell us that they, as tenors, are the rebels of the singing world. As a tenor, I want nothing to do with these guys. Continue Reading >>
TAR 17 Cast Announced, Promptly Mocked
It’s no secret that we here at Movie Hawk have a love/hate relationship with The Amazing Race, i.e., we love the show and love hating its contestants. Normally, we wait until the show actually airs to form opinions on the teams, but since it’s a boring day and I haven’t written in a while, I thought it’d be fun to introduce the cast now, before they depart….on a racearoundtheworld.
Team: Andie and Jenna
Relationship: Birth Mother and Biological Daughter
Team Nickname: I’m thinking….Team Warbucks? Little Orphan Annie?
From what I can gather, Andie gave Jenna up when she was born, and they just recently reconnected. As with all teams that use the Race as a platform to get to know each other, I’m sure this will be a wildly successful venture. For those of you whose browsers don’t support <sarcasm> tags, I predict that they’ll either be booted in the first three legs or go deep but annoy the hell out of each other and us. Continue Reading >>
