spear carrier n.— «They are “Spear Carriers” which in movie parlance, is the expendable personel who always buy the farm in the battle scenes. I know a couple stunt guys and extras who have made their careers out of being able...
sneak into town v. phr.— «Scarier than anything in “Captivity” was the drive to Danvers I had to go through to see it. The new horror film, a wan, derivative entry in the torture-porn cycle, didn’t screen for critics and is...
Hesco barrier n.— «Iraq and Afghanistan are dangerous. Real dangerous. Mortars, RPGs, snipers and car bombs, you name it. Imagine you’re a soldier in the occupying army. How can you even sleep at night with all those munitions aimed at...
Territory handshake n.— «In the film Australia, being filmed at Darwin’s Stokes Hill Wharf, screen veteran Bill Hunter’s character welcomes Nicole Kidman’s English aristocrat to the Territory with a pat on the bum. The cheeky pat, dubbed...
walltop n.— «Five hours later I turned my laptop into a digital picture frame. Coined as a “walltop” by one of the first that was widely publicized (here), it is just a plain old laptop with the screen being displayed in a picture frame...
grassing n.— «Neil Sheehan, a spokesman with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said the older of the two Salem units had reached 80 percent power when operators had to shut it down due to what the industry calls grassing. “You have...