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
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
