Baked beans are off.

Check out Interstate 60 for a good Marsden movie. It’s written and directed by Bob Gale (who wrote Back to the Future), and it’s basically a road movie—it’s hard to describe, though. It’s weird and not for everyone, but the cast includes Gary Oldman, Kurt Russell, Amy Smart, and Ann-Margret as people he meets along…

In a Rolling Stone interview back in the 80s, Caine was asked about movies like Jaws 4 and Blame it on Rio, and he said ‘I pick the best script available when I need one’ (which at the time was 3-4 movies a year for him). He was ALL about the money for a good decade or so. (I can’t blame him, or Jeremy Irons for that…

I highly doubt we’ll see removal. The modern GOP leadership is far too craven for that. However, it’s barely possible that we’ll see Trump resign. I think, however, that the most likely scenario is acquittal by the Senate with a severely weakened Trump in next year’s general election.

We are all a part of the movie. We are in the movie and the movie is in us. Community plays the same backwards and forwards.

One of the most beautiful things about the novel is the twisted chronology, the slow unfolding of meaning as the events move forward, and back, and turn back in on themselves, leaving us to question everything until it all falls tragically into place. I’m sorry that they unraveled it.

Here’s Loudon Wainwright on Napster and ‘free music’ from 2003.

I saw a Travel Channel show where they visited a joint in New Jersey that puts the sauce on top--they call it a tomato pie, but it’s just pizza with the sauce on top.  So these guys in KC can’t even claim that.

And, strangely enough, that was the last time I watched the Oscars.  I’d watch the opening with Billy Crystal shoehorned into a bunch of movies, and turn it off...and then I realized that most of the movies I liked would never, in any way, shape or form, win any major awards, and I stopped completely.  Not even Jon…

I think that if Warner and DC hadn’t been so committed to the Murderverse, Ben Affleck might have been able to do more with the role. He wasn’t an awful choice, he was just sandbagged by one terrible film and two mediocre ones.

Agreed. DKR back in 1986 was one of the best books I’d ever read up to that point, and is significant however you look at it, as it was a seminal work of its era. DKSA holds the title of being among the worst I’ve ever read. There is seriously nothing redeeming about that book.

Ah, but things were different then, though we were poor.

Suicide Squad 2:  Electric Boogaloo

Back when it was still a good site, Cracked did an After Hours that theorized that all of Joss Whedon’s works are in the same universe. It’s worth checking out. (At least most of the folks who got laid off and/or saw the writing on the wall and left early are working...Dan is writing for John Oliver, Soren is with Amer…

I agree.  The film spent so much running time building tension, creating suspense and mystery, and then the payoff was incredibly ‘meh’, if you can even call it a payoff.  I don’t need clear answers to everything, but I need a lot more than what we got.

And that’s the problem, isn’t it? I suspect that many people, including yours truly, will be faced with decisions to drop one or more streamers sometime in the next year or 18 months, if only to add another. Right now I have Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and DC. As things stand, DC would be the first to go. But if they beef…

I’m completely OK with a hot dog being a taco, as long as it means that poutine is a salad. 

It’s completely worth it.  If you have a general knowledge of the hits, that’s all you really need.  And it truly is a brilliant show.

He even put out a pretty terrific album in 2017, Paranormal.  It’s a double with 2 songs recorded with the original Alice Cooper band.  (And it’s awesome!)

A Paranormal Evening With Alice Cooper. I was expecting a ton of theatrics, which I got (Alice in a straitjacket! Alice getting his head chopped off! Alice the sinister ringmaster!). What I wasn’t (quite) expecting but was obviously hoping for was a band that played a tightly scripted show with primal urgency,…