Movies for Men with Taste

For those of you unfortunate souls who have yet to bask in the hilarious dark wit of Todd Solondz's Happiness (an all-time GTC fave, let the record state), I suggest you do so immediately.

No excuses--if you are at still at work, leave. These are the inspired moments that led our forefathers to create the sick day, after all, and any asshole boss would complain about his worst employee taking a few measly sick hours deserves to be an ex-boss anyway.

After you have laughed, cried, been grossed out and offended, and then laughed some more, check out the trailer for Toddybaby's new movie, Life During Wartime, which is sort-of a loosey-goosey sequel to Happiness, albeit employing different actors, after the jump.

Joysey

The less-glamorous City of Sin, thousands of miles from the better one and known as Atlantic City, has been on my mind a fair amount lately. I recently saw Louis Malle's Atlantic City and will never look at lemons OR Susan Sarandon the same ever again. Not long after watching that movie, I almost got a freelance job working at a hotel in Atlantic City for a couple weeks and I am still pretty disappointed that didn't come through.

Now, there is a Marty Scorsese-directed HBO pilot for a new show about Atlantic City in the 1920s, when it was cool, written by Soprano's alum Terence Winter, starring Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, and Michael Shannon.

I might have to break down and get cable so I can fully immerse myself in Atlantic City at its peak (and catch up on Treme, climb aboard the Mad Men train...) .

The trailer for Boardwalk Empire, after the jump: