Brooklyn Kinda Love: Your Love, On Cam

So, maybe your Real World: Red Hook audition didn't work out because you didn't have enough sex with strangers, or your frequent discussion of ovulation schedules wasn't exactly the kind of fodder for which MTV was hoping.  We have sympathy, really.  I mean, come on: CHET.  Anyway, someone heard your cry, and your chance at stardom has been revived.

A documentary called Brooklyn Kinda Love is looking for BREEDERS and DINKS (read: "couples") ages 18-35 to star in their film about what relationships are like in this fine borough.  Produced by the HBO Taxicab Confessions crew, they'll follow you around for about five days a week or four to six months, capture the levels of awesome and sorta shitty through which your epic love story goes, and you will receive monies and eternal reverence.*  Apply here: 877-402-2278.

I say that if a pair from the Slope gets picked, they get a blog franchise on FIPS.  Thoughts, Erica? I mean, really--what better place to look than Park Slope, where single people come to understand that we've clearly done something wrong if we're not already pledged in holy matrimony.  My obvious personal bitterness aside, the Slope is a casting director's playground for about nine billion reasons, though you don't read this blog for me to tell you them.  Seriously, though, let us know if you've thrown your hat into the ring.

*FIPS cannot vouch for the levels of either of these.

(via Brokelyn)

NYC Food Film Festival: Review

The Fourth Annual NYC Food Film Festival showed up in DUMBO this past weekend, and maybe it was the food, maybe it was the fact that I am ridiculously in love with DUMBO, maybe it was the heat stroke affecting the part of my brain that controls all cognitive reasoning—but I really liked this festival.

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JURASSIC PARK SLOPE: THIS MUST HAPPEN

PHOTO: Miss Heather from New York ShittyOk, this *might* actually be the best thing I've ever seen in my entire fucking life.

Miss Heather from New York Shitty spotted a flyer in Williamsburg from a, no doubt, up-and-coming team of award-winning flimmakers who are trying to get a movie made and want Bill Murray to star in it. What is this fine flick called, you might be wondering?

JURASSIC PARK SLOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And yes, it is about dinosaurs.

I think I might have to permanently shut FIPS down now....cause shit ain't ever going to get any better than this.

(via Gothamist)

What's Worse: The Pavillion Movie Theater or Nazis?

When New York Magazine declared Park Slope the best place to live in New York, I'm pretty sure it wasn't for our movie theater. Because The Pavilion is the worst piece of shit move theater I've ever been to in my life. 

I know I'm not the first to complain about this crap box. Back in November, there was a big uproar about a phantom bedbug problem over on the brooklynian message boards, which was later determined to be untrue (we covered it here and here). A few summers back, the air conditioning stopped working during a july heat wave (and the summer blockbuster weekend opening of The Dark Knight). And that's just the tip of it. Have you ever met someone in Park Slope who says, "you should totally check out The Pavilion - it's a great theater"?

I highly doubt it.

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Wipe that grin off your face, cheshire cat—Alice in Wonderland kind of blows

I know that every formerly (currently?) depressed goth teenager and stoner vet is pissing their pants in excitement for this Friday's premiere of Alice in Wonderland, but sorry to be the bearer of bad news—you'll probably be disappointed.

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