Is a theatrically-released film really the best medium for a Dune adaptation? There is so much plot and world-building even in the first book that it seems like their cuts would have to be savage, making Peter Jackson’s LOTR films look purist by comparison.

In retrospect the pseudo-Blofeld who gets dropped down a smokestack like a chump definitely feels like a dry run for Dr. Evil.

The Rocketeer and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow seem to be about the only Streamline Moderne/retro-futurist action movies out there. Has anyone heard of others?

Maybe someone will get tired of his bullshit and push him out of an airlock.

Hell hath no fury like a fanboi whose favorite show has been scorned.

“Island in the Sun” too.

I can’t find it online, but around 1995 or so Spin magazine published a scathing article that fingered a bunch of new acts of the time as one hit wonders, rather than developing artists to watch. At least half of their calls were dead wrong in retrospect, as many of those musicians on their list were only just getting…

It’s kind of odd how so many film industries just shamelessly copy whatever is trendy in their own industry or in Hollywood, in a “strike while the iron is hot” fashion (see: Turkish ‘Star Wars’, etc). I wonder if there is any disappointment within these industries at their sometime failures to do anything really…

or trying to figure out how to find that 15-minute window when a pear is neither rock-hard nor complete mush.

Of course, so would a stale bag of Cheetos from a truck stop vending machine.

I’m pretty sure you’re thinking of Tom Monaghan, the Domino’s founder, who’s a far-right ultra-Catholic. He sold out his Domino’s interest to Bain Capital so he could fund all those wacky schemes.

Too bad!

Andy Serkis can play them in motion capture.

*Gollum voice*

she was “repeatedly asked questions about her sex life” ... with five different producers supposedly asking frequent graphic questions like “is your vagina shaved?” or “have you ever fondled testicles before?” among others.

A lot of older buildings are “Faraday cages” which interfere with electromagnetism, including the radio waves required for cell phone service. Many 20th century architects designed Faraday cages without even knowing they were a thing.

A Russian hacker who claims to have worked for a Kremlin-backed troll farm during the US election said that part of their on-the-job training consisted of watching House of Cards - partly to brush up their colloquial English skills, and partly to psych them up to combat the “decadent” West.

You were probably in Marin County. There are some beautiful but isolated areas in the west and north of the county, where there are more dairy cows than people. It would get pretty lonely and dark after sundown.

De-starring is a known Kinja glitch which will be fixed by Univision’s IT drones on approximately the 32nd of never. Don’t worry when it happens, you are not really removing any real stars, it only looks that way to you. When it happens to me (almost daily!) I find that simply reloading the page in my browser fixes it.

Don’t forget about the Saucer People.