it was all a dream, i used to read Word Up magazine…
As fantasy/sci-fi—excuse me, "speculative fiction"—gets more and more highbrow respect, it becomes more wackily self-indulgent. But maybe that's not a bad thing.

astronaut's wife
Ditto Tony Goins comment. This movie doesn't even seem bad in an interesting way.

Wo' Better Makes it Wo' Better
It's W. Somerset Maugham, not M.

future suggestion
How about Mo' Better Blues as a flop? Only a few years gone from Do the Right Thing, the great black director (Spike) takes on the great black art form (Jazz) with some of the best acting talent of the early 90s (Denzel, Snipes). And it is ten different kinds of disaster.

this is the home of the vain!
Is it weird that I might buy this guy's book just because he listens to the Fall?

That's that chronic!
This is the merging of the music video aesthetic with the nascent YouTube aesthetic. To future generations, it will be known as "Breaker/Watch Me Eat a Cake in Three Minutes!!!"

when i was bad…
Also known for the song, "To the Other Man," which provided the sample for J-Dilla/Ghostface's "Whip You With a Strap."