Sometimes the headlines just write themselves. I watched the Charlie Sheen interview/documentary, AKA Charlie Sheen, on Netflix. It was exactly as entertaining as I could have imagined. Somewhere in the second part, Chuck Lorre describes Sheen as having the kind of dark charisma that Dean Martin had. That’s accurate. Sheen, even at 60, retains the… Read More The Wasted Life of Charlie Sheen
So back in April my car got totalled. It was an old car, so it didn’t take much for the Insurance company to say “sorry, we’re just gonna cut you a check for the market value.” But that meant a new car, and a new stereo, and the market has moved passed what I am… Read More This Week in the CD Visor — Guitar experiments Edition
No, not really. At least, not confirmed. But there are rumors, and not from Variety: Mindhunter star Holt McCallany just gave an interview where he talks about how the show might return and the status of director David Fincher’s involvement. The interview is with CBR promoting McCallany’s other new show, The Waterfront, and he addressed the season 3 issue:… Read More Mindhunter Season 3 You Guys!
Larry Correia has planted a flag on the mouldering corpse of George R.R. Martin’s literary career. There’s a fisking in the linked article, which involves MSN.com relitigating the whole Sad Puppies/Hugos drama from ten years ago, because they want to sell the narrative that Correia and Martin are rivals, explaining this mockery. Correia fisks the… Read More The Ruins of Westeros
I first saw Wicked on Broadway near the end of Idina Menzel’s run with the show. I thought then that the show was interesting technically, well-acted, had quality songs, and that I didn’t engage with the story in any way. Recently I watched the film of Wicked, Part One, and got pretty much the same… Read More The Thing With Wicked
Peter Jackson, huh? I guess that means it’s not Amazon. I could be into this. Anime Lord of the Rings? How has that not already been done? I mean it kind of has, right? This looks really cool. I like the character design. FUCK YEAH HELM HAMMERHAND LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOO Helm’s Deep wooooo wait Who’s the… Read More Reacting to the “Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” Trailer in Real Time
There’s a bit of news in the world of The Eye of Argon, which, as I have previously discussed, is enjoying an expanding universe. The story has always been that Jim Theis, author of Argon, only wrote that, before the blowback to it destroyed in him forever the wish to create. That’s sort of true,… Read More Grignr Emerges From The Grave in ‘The Sacred Crest’
Hollywood continues to profit from my generation’s entertainment conditioning. Warner Bros. and Tim Burton’s sequel “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” and Paramount’s animated “Transformers One” topped international box office charts over Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s “The Wild Robot.” -Rebecca Rubin, “Blah Blah Movie Titles Things You Know“, Variety.com I remain incontrovertibly annoyed at the existence of Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice,… Read More Sequels, Legacy Sequels, and Human Robots
In 1983 a group of Neo-Nazis, calling themselves “The Order” (because of course) committed some bank robberies and stole cars in Idaho. I was alive in 1983, and this is the first I’ve heard of this, probably because they never made it outside Idaho before the FBI brought the hammer down on them. I suppose… Read More Jude Law Thinks Nazis Are, Wait For It… Bad.
Apropos of nothing, I had the theme song to Tiny Toons stuck in my head one afternoon this summer. I sang it, my wife sang it, we knew it, we remembered it. We are old. Back in the 1980’s one of the three networks had three hours of Looney Tunes Cartoons on every Saturday morning,… Read More Tiny Toons and Animaniacs: Exploitation vs. Creativity
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