Some motherfuckin movie studios are always trying to ice skate uphill

There’s three models — a Gracie O’Malley model, an Anne Bonny model, and a Cheng I Sao model! A pirate queen for all tastes!

I don’t think anyone with a chronic illness is surprised by any of this. People love to ask how you’re feeling so that they can congratulate you on being brave/a fighter/etc when you politely just say “fine” and downplay things. People don’t like when you actually acknowledge how much it fuckin’ sucks because that’s…

Wait people didn’t like this film? I fucking loved it when it came out.

I loved this movie and saw it with people who hated it, which is why I saw it again in theaters another couple times by my damn self. I still get chills when Dana Fuchs launches into “Helter Skelter”, she could knock a building down with that voice.

You rightfully mention it, but I just think it bears repeating: God damn, that is a great soundtrack! It’s almost “This is Spinal Tap” in how the songs are both a pitch-perfect pastiche and excellent sincere contribution to the form.

and a right-wing rumor that shopping at Target makes you “gay and a pervert.”

Holy moly. I got to get in gear and watch Pearl.

concurred.
you know what was surprisingly delightful? that Muppet series about dr. teeth and the electric mayhem.

The early-blockbuster era is interesting because while the studios were moving away from the New Hollywood type of risk taking, they still couldn’t really tell what was going to catch people’s attention. Star Wars and Raiders and E.T. had all been original screenplays so it wasn’t all about branding or IP, so hey,…

Michael Paré is also the titular Eddie in Eddie and the Cruisers. So, in the 1980's, if you wanted to make an old-time Rock ‘n Roll themed movie that was going to be largely ignored by audiences in theaters but later gain a respectable cult following on cable TV and home video, Paré was your guy.

Bill Paxton also got an early role in this as a comic-relief bartender. I unironically love this movie. Much like Hill’s earlier film The Warriors, it’s set in a world that looks superficially like the real world, but clearly had a different history than our own, and has a culture that is a mixture of elements from…

basically spend the whole time fighting over Lane.

She is really great on Evil. Like many ambiguous things on that show, I’m not sure how despicable her character actually is. But Lahti makes you root for her.

We are truly blessed that Hugh Grant has reached “Fuck it, I don’t give a fuck” stage of his career. 

Honor Among Thieves was really just too fun.  It’s a shame it didn’t do the numbers it needed too.  

One of the reasons I love The Cure so much is their wildly different styles. Post-punk, Goth, Synth, Pop, hell they have a mariachi song in their catalog.

All this Crow coverage is making me feel so fucking old

Starred for it being one of their best and certainly a song I would consider telling someone to listen to if I had to introduce the band with one song. That said, their catalogue does veer into something that sounds more like traditional pop fairly often - Friday I’m In Love, In Between Days, etc. And a fair number of…