The plot should be that Monopoly has Jumanji’d us all without knowing and it’s why we’re in a capitalist dystopia where the New York Times is publishing op-eds about how it should be legal to sell your kidney.

Everyone knows that it’s not the 80s unless you play Flock of Seagulls. Sure, they weren’t really that big, but they have become the ultimate “this is the 80s” musical reference choice cliche. 

Meanwhile, a 35 year old Michael Cera despondently lowers his head directly on to his cafeteria lunch tray.

“And I wish I went to school.”

I’m all in for a baffling, batshit-crazy 133 minutes from the guy who brought us a baffling, batshit crazy 153 minute take on the nearly-unreadable “Heart of Darkness” and turned it into pure art.

I wonder if that anonymous studio head also thought that having some chick from Sacramento write and direct a movie about a…

really brutal that the absolute loseriest bean counters are in charge of the industry now. i really hope a24 or someone steps in, that recent billion dollar valuation has to count for something.

Because this is an article about movies that successfully skirted copyright issues, whereas the producers of “The Island” ended up having to pay a settlement.

The Fantastic Four (1994) is actually a fun, comic-accurate movie. Yes, it’s cheap beyond belief, but it has the heart of the original comics and is the best Fantastic Four movie. At 90 minutes, it’s an easy, breezy watch and it deserves an official release by Marvel Studios.

I never bought into the idea that they were awful people, just heightened versions of the stereotypical cynical and self-centered New Yorker. They spent a lot of time helping various friends out, etc., and only dipped into truly bad behavior when cornered (Jerry stealing the marble rye, for instance).

I never forgot that, but Seinfeld had its own system of morality where these awful people would be punished by the universe for their behavior. It’s not like they were Tony Sopranos who were awful but still kept winning... the show’s humor is built on karmic retribution for these 4 characters’ selfishness.

On the Tim Scott episode in 3 weeks. 

It was a good speech, but not really worth sitting through the Oscars for. However, it also wasn’t some huge screed against Israel like some fundies want to make it seem like, it was basically the line noted in the article spoken by a Jewish director of a film about the Holocaust. Because of that they had to take…

Deep cut.

The maniac has left the mansion.

It’s been over thirty years and I still remember his role on Maniac Mansion fondly.

Indeed. But these aren’t even folks that are that good at governing or manipulation. Manipulation is easy for people who already have cash and power to spread around. What they’re good at is being ridable coattails for those with no scruples or shame, of which there are plenty, and those folks will then do everything…

To me it looks like someone who was torn between the need to accept roles as the “fat & crazy” woman in comedies and the fact that she didn’t like that at all.

It’s like if Preston Lacy from Jackass woke up one day and said “I’m tired of my dignity being taken from me bit by bit just to make money.

Now she’s trying to…

The reason the shit-storm started for Confederate is because they and some other people working on the show described it in some detail, and it was looking pretty gross - among other things:

“right-wingers would be attacking it as “woke propaganda””

I actually kind of love the idea of him coming back with more and more outlandish suggestions, growing ever more desperate as they keep getting rejected: