Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange are both stellar in it.

Julie Taymor’s Titus

With all the focus on barbecue and whatnot, it’s easy to overlook that chicken & waffles might be the American South’s single greatest gift to human culinary civilization.

I thought for a moment that she fell asleep, until one of the kids threw a handful of captain crunch at her and she started to gently vibrate.

This is exactly what I thought of when I read the headline.

This I did not know.

Looks like someone stole all the money.

I mean did you want a story with the Molemen invading Manhattan?

The question everyone’s asking is: was the material bad from the get-go? Or did studio interference make this a bomb before it was even filmed?

And fuck Prince for even beginning to draw that analogy.

when I heard about what he did to some of his protégés...

You might not remember when Prince changed his name to a symbol. It was because his contract wouldn’t let him use his own name without them getting paid. They also kept all of his master recordings for many years - he’s only recently liberated both them and his name as a trademark.

What are you, a wizard? How did you do that? I tried and failed, see below.

Feh. I tried. F’n Kinja.

Death of the Discworld speaks in <font face=smallcaps>small caps</font>, rather than <font style=caps>all caps</font>.

they just aren’t that interesting as movie heroes in their own film?

but they bristled at many of the traditional comic book elements that defined the characters.

I’m sorry, I stopped listening

Why did Man of Steel have to be so awful and ruin the character?

Indeed. They made a movie about how “Everybody Hates Superman”, and the new trailer seems to be the same thing.