“The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D”

I bet they have edits of different lengths too: Same pre-taped skit, but versions at 2:15, 2:00, and 1:45. That kind of thing.

Avatar Kora gets a little closer what with the steam-punky-ness of it all.

Cut her some slack here. She’s always been a little waifish. Her voice resonates big out of her lil self. Plus, she’s at least a B+/A- mimic of other popstar vocalists - like at times, doing really uncanny impressions of other singers. Which tracks with practicing like crazy. She’s super blonde here - backlit by…

The real take should be: we’ve got Biden, who is on a slow, gentle glide in a fairly typical retirement old-guy mindset, and we’ve got Trump who is in a steep decline into blithering madness. They are two different angles of descent. We’re stuck with both because of rules and reasons: An incumbent president has the…

They had a showbiz-related falling out. Olbermann missed a DS booking - cancelling at the last minute. Stewart ripped him a new one. New York anchor desks seem to breed at best sharp elbows, at worst kaiju sized egos who do not forgive - and grow nastier with age.

I was all ready for the first FF film to suck eggs, but it got most of the way there. The whole sequence on the bridge where Ben is thinking about killing himself is flat out stupid, however. It felt like they had “the money shot” of the truck hitting Ben and folding in upon itself, and then improvised a scene around…

“We’re going to leave his character crucified going into a potential season 2.”

Gin, baby! This is Elon’s way of saying he likes you. Go out with him. Go on... you two crazy kids will hit it off. There’s a whole Minecraft world out there waiting for you two to populate.

But what’s his take on the MMCU? (The Mamma Mia Cinematic Universe) I bet he’s got a good take there too.

If you look up Jason and Rosie’s X-Ray Vision podcast, Jason has an interesting take that he distilled from others that I’ll try to distill here: This franchise is admirably diabolically insidious in how calculated it lands in the money spot. That’s not a knock against it per se. But if you squint you could see how…

Side Quest: For rabbit hole reasons, I went on a Kristy McNichol kick last week. “The Night the Lights went out in Georgia” (with Dennis Quaid & Mark Hamill !!) “The Pirate Movie” (trash movie, but the songs were better than I remembered). She can sing better than average. She really did light up the screen.

I took it to mean Sokka wouldn’t need to necessarily say sexist dialogue when it could be conveyed with an eyeroll or something subtler. I mean they’re not going to do the “(gongala gongala) What??!! (forehead shock)“ anime reaction takes either (I presume). So lots of stuff in the cartoon that was dialed or popped up…

Yes! Max is doing secret deals with Netflix... the CW-verse is (if not popping) humming along in reruns there. Give Legends a little promo nudge, watch the cult classic status take off, then 8 episodes! Just 8 Netflix, c’mon. I need it. I can’t think straight. My arms are all itchy. I see Ava Sharpe drunk-twerking a…

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“One does not simply fuck the AMC Dune 2 popcorn bucket...

And here I thought they were going to complain that the article’s header image looks like Zoboomafoo.

I have a list somewhere leftover from my movie-theater years, titled “Might be better in Black and White.” The Mist was on there before Franky D rereleased it, and I was like... “Called it!”

He’s a good fit in those and should go ahead and make 3 more. They’re kinda old school in that they get shot fast, for not a lot of money, the cast gets to dress up in finery, and spend down time in swank locations. I can picture Tina Fey or Gal Gadot saying, “I got cast in the new Poirot thing with Branagh! Thank god…

My tinfoil hat is telling me that Secret Invasion was actually written by AI and Sam Jackson and Don Cheadle each got 200 mil for the NDA.