At various times, and especially in my younger days, I would Get Into a movie, watching them over and over, on a nightly or weekly basis, because something in it is speaking to me. I don’t think I am unique in this, but it is a phenomenon I’ve observed in myself. I recently mentioned that… Read More Movies I Got Into: Casino
Recently, Saturday Night Live said the quiet part out loud, trying to make fun of white Souncloud rappers as being Inauthentic: Now, I don’t have a dog in the hunt of what is and is not Hip-Hop. I don’t care that much about it. But the skit proves the opposite of the intended joke. Queen… Read More The Yeet Skirt Song is completely Valid as Hip-Hop: Why Imperial Gatekeeping Fails
There’s a level of show-biz bullshit that’s so profoundly dense it begs to be lit on fire. When you’re talking about Bridgerton, which turns Regency Romance into Current-Year preach-lit, the temptation is the more profound. And now they’re trying to sell getting the actress naked as some kind of transgressive act, because she’s overweight. This… Read More Naked Girls Get Extra Naked – A Fisking of Bridgerton Noise
The true beast of the Pandemic has returned, and now it will devour it’s own genre. Behold, as the most popular documentary of this century destroys Fair Use: The rule of Fair Use requires that the use of a content be “transformative”, i.e., you’re using it to do something with it other than what the… Read More Tiger King Destroys Everything
Variety has an actually non-excruciating article, about the results of the WGA Strike: The Writers Guild of America called a strike one year ago today, declaring that the streaming boom had created an existential crisis for writers. The WGA got most of what it wanted from the strike, though it took almost five months for the studios and streamers to come… Read More The End of Infinite TV
I’m a fan of both Blood Meridian and the Coen Brothers film of No Country for Old Men, both by Cormac McCarthy, without fully understanding them. They are dense pieces of uncomfortable art that transgress what is expected, that show the world as it is, happy endings be damned. Over the long weekend, I happened… Read More Explaining Cormac McCarthy
Anyone who’s still a Star Wars fan after the last 25 years of garbage product deserves this. Oscar-winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is attached to direct an upcoming “Star Wars” film, making her the first woman to helm a film in the iconic franchise—but right-wing critics are blasting the movie as “woke” after Obaid-Chinoy said it’s… Read More Viral Anti-Marketing at Work: The New Star Wars Director Said Some Things. Get Mad, Nerds.
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is one of those movies that I mildly disliked upon first viewing, but has come to grow on me. It is based on a Canadian comic book series that I have never read. I recently watched the first four episodes of the new animated series, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, which… Read More Things That Annoy Me About Scott Pilgrim
It’s become a commonplace that streaming services are treacherous. You put your faith in them to provide you with content, and they pull it according to bean-counter whim and puritanical outrage. Physical media is the only way to preserve culture! Even directors are getting in the act: Christopher Nolan recently made headlines when he humorously urged fans… Read More Looney Tunes, Fandom, and physical vs. Streaming
My experience of this film, which I just went to see, perfectly mirror’s my experience with Oppenheimer: with the earlier film, I was bored with the idea and impressed with the result. For Napoleon, I was excited that it was made, and just spend two and half hours sitting through it, wishing I had done… Read More Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” is a Dense hard Slog Through Mud
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