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This is going to be a tough adaptation for sure. I only read the first book, because, while I enjoyed the big ideas, I had the same issue with not caring enough about the characters. There’s a certain species of book where that doesn’t matter, but when they started out with some interesting stuff on the Cultural…

I sometime believe that The Scorpions, despite being German dudes trying to write lyrics in English, must have still been a Spinal Tap put-on. First, because they chose to name a song “Rock You Like a Hurricane”. Not an earthquake, or even a thunderstorm, but a hurricane. Second, they have a chorus of a different song…

We need Kraven hunting for a date for the prom!

This was the last movie I remember running for the entire summer at the theaters. And I’m sure many others did. I’m sure “The Avengers” was still showing at theater 20 in the megaplex in September of 2012. But “Jurassic Park” is the one I remember still being on the marquee at the 6 and 8-plexes into the fall, and…

I thought it was decent, it just didn’t have Event status because there was no exclusivity; anyone could join the event so there was no need to tweet: “I was in the room!”

I saw this one with a packed house at the Hollywood Cinerama Dome. I still remember the entire theater shaking from the sound system during the nuclear war sequence and seeing all that amazing stunt work on the huge screen. The ‘morphing’ effects by themselves got as much press as Spielberg’s dinosaurs did a couple…

Does he have the reputation for being difficult?  I thought that anyone who played uptight and difficult the way he did with Letterman must actually be a pretty easy-going guy.

I love Clifford, too, and that’s the perfect clip to summarize the film. I will always laugh when Short reaches for the damn dinosaur or at Grodin drawing back and then letting go with his total exasperation.

2020 W00tstout is here!

I have been bringing home beer from local brewers in cans, growlers and crowlers, but this weekend for the first time I brought home a plastic bag of beer. BJ’s had a deal where you could get a 64 oz. to-go bag of their draft beer for $12. And it was a flat price for any style, although I was disappointed that the…

Yep, that was the key point in the ‘go to the bow’ versus ‘go to the stern’ debate. The steel hull was going to be thinner where the propeller shafts passed through and was easier to cut.

I remember the days of $90+ VHS movie prices, and also remember getting a VHS copy of “Wayne’s World” from McDonald’s as part of some new meal promotion. How quickly things changed!

It’s not a particularly long oral history, but Ellen Wong only has one quote in there:

I love “The Losers” comic book series. I was so bummed when the movie turned out to be pretty bad. I think there’s a lot of of good stuff in there, but the fact they were already trying to set it up for a couple sequels killed it.

I’ve been to a Lazy Dog in Dallas, but I had no idea it was a chain. I’ll say this for them: They were open and they served me beer! It was during that Christmas/New Year time period when a high school friend and I were looking for a bar and our first choices had all closed for the night. I recall they had a pretty…

“Don’t you know what it means to be an orgy guy? You have to dress different. You have to act different. You have to get all kinds of N95 masks and face shields. You have to shave your mustache so they fit properly. You have to limit your ‘orgy friends’ to just your regular friends.”
- Jerry Seinfeld for NYC Health

Does anyone remember the show “Murder One”? The first season followed one long Hollywood murder investigation, and it aired back in 1995 when season-long mysteries were a novel thing. After a very involved mystery was set up... a lot of ins, a lot of outs, a lot of what-have-yous... the investigators found out that…

The Monster at the End of this Slideshow:

I’m always happy to see another Kyle Mooney sketch, even if I’ll concede they aren’t all winners. I need them to balance out the game shows and quick-hit celebrity impressions.

Did anybody else pause the show to work out exactly where Kyle was filming the outdoors bank robbing bit? Just me? (It was the Chase Bank on…