Ultimately, one of the primary rules in any film production, is get everything in writing. I’ve seen so many films tanked because they started off as joint enterprises between friends operating on a handshake, and bad blood forms, and soon the film is torn to bits. I have a friend who spent years on a documentary,…

It’s mundane but I think the truth lands somewhere in the middle. The big factor is this film was shot before Toby and Leo broke big. Toby was still doing small parts like appearing in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and was still a few years from Pleasantville and Cider House Rules. Likewise, Leo though he had an…

I’ve heard Maguire is the worst, but in the case of Don’s Plum one version has it that the guy had them all improvising for a short film (no idea if that meant he could have entered it in festivals) and then he made the rest of a “feature” around the footage he had shot and tried to sell it as a feature STARRING…

He was definitely one of the major subjects of, “Whatever happened to....?” articles 3-4 years ago. Then even the people who write those things got tired of asking.

Shoot, I didn’t realize there were other locations than the Ballard one (RIP). I’ll have to hit the SLU one soon, assuming I don’t die of heat stroke in the next few days.

Maybe 5 Guys is wildly inconsistent - a few months after they first opened in Seattle, I figured I’d check them out, since I’d been hearing good stuff about them long before they expanded up here. Absolutely one of the worst burgers I’d ever had, and I haven’t felt the need for a return visit.

The only reason it’s even a crime is because the state’s not getting its cut.

I think he’s a bigger asshole for his efforts to suppress Don’s Plum (which is essentially a roman e clef on his dudebro lifestyle) resorting to practically ruining the career of the filmmaker who made it.  

Toby Jones knows what he did

I looked up his Wikipedia filmography page, and apparently he spent a lot of the past five years doing production work. I wonder what brought him back to acting.

It’s a call back to the iron rings historically used as training tools and weapons in Kung Fu. Additionally, it looks more dramatic.

I mean, they at least look more like something that was used as a hyper-advanced alien spaceship’s engine now. Before it was pretty much... oh those are clearly rings designed to fit a human’s fingers. They also are making the rings do more than just glow when the Mandarin does something. They seem to be actively…

I think that would drive everyone who does martial arts up the wall, TBH.

Facing the cameras from the balcony, he used his right hand to unhook the mask loop from his right ear, then raised his left hand to pull the mask off his face. He was heavily made up, his face more orange tinted than in the photos from the hospital. The helicopter’s rotors were still spinning. He put the mask into…

You had one job, Covid!

Thousands of people are still dying and will continue to do so because of this idiot. He’s the gift that keeps giving.

Right then, Redfield knew it was over. Trump showed in that moment that he hadn’t changed at all. The pandemic response wasn’t going to change, either.