If their inevitable next show doesn’t open with “Kyle Quit the Band” I will be supremely disappointed.

There are people who think it’s not a good performance?

Besides the obvious roles, her part as Steve Martin’s friend Roxanne always sticks in my head as a bit of trivia. At the time, I only knew her from Popeye, which I actually did love as a preteen, so it was cool to see her in something else.

At some point though I think we actually do need to look at what the average ticket price is and how it compares to the rate of inflation and so on because, like, it does seem to be too much but how much room is there for theaters on this? 

I love movies and going to movies and I used to take my kids and niece all the damn time. Like everything else, they’ve just become so exhausting and expensive. Before the pandemic we would hit all the blockbuster movies (some multiple times) - Star Wars, Marvel, Lego this and that, Pixar and Disney. It was fun. Now we…

The last time I tried to go to a regular theater that wasn’t the small one close to me that’s now closed, I was with 2 friends.  We showed up half an hour before showtime and they did not have 3 seats together for us.  So we walked out and went to a showing of Spaceballs for like $5 each at a small local theater. …

I saw the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special in a theater with a bunch of fellow nerds and it was a fabulous experience. Would love to see that happen more often, though there’s probably a tipping point in there somewhere.

wait for the ‘gen alpha is killing streaming by not subscribing’ articles in a few years, that’ll be a real hoot.

I like pre-selecting my seats. It allows me to show up 30 mins past the posted start time to avoid the 30 mins of trailers and commercials before the actual film starts. Although they appear to be ratcheting those ad times up, because when I showed up my usual 30 mins late for Furiosa I still had to wait an additional …

i’ve noticed any time i got to a rep screening it’s FULL of young people. when i went to apocalypse now recently half the crowd raised their hand when the MC asked who was seeing it for the first time.

I like going to the movies, so, selfishly, I hope theaters survive. But I think audiences have made pretty clear that there are really only a handful of movies per year that they’re willing to pay for a full theatrical experience to see. And I don’t think that makes them assholes or philistines.

If you care about Palestine, Long Covid, Ukraine, Transit Policy, Public Housing and Project 2025 among other things, you should support telling Joe Biden to stand down as the nominee.

The dude you’re jawing with basically lost out on an opportunity to a creator of color in the past (in regional theatre, if memory serves), it broke his fucking brain, and now legitimately every problem in the country can be magically traced back to “DEI” and “social justice.”

The solution is for Biden to withdraw from the race and endorse Kamala Harris as the DNC candidate so she can use the funds his campaign has already raised, and avoid a contested convention.

Of course, replacing a nominee this late in the process is also an unprecedented move, which could easily blow up in their face.

Yeah it’s a damn shame that we don’t have a duly elected, Constitutionally sanctioned office-holder whose entire job is to take over from the President in case of physical or mental incapacity. Like some sort of Assistant or "Vice" President. Quite the oversight if you ask me.

Additionally, I never had the feeling in 2016 that if Trump lost his supporters would try a fucking armed coup.

Possibly unpopular take?: It doesn’t feel like 2016 again, because IIRC there was a general sense then that of course Trump wouldn’t actually win and even he seemed surprised that he did.

Here’s the thing: reassuring your nervous supporters that the debate was “one bad night” shouldn’t be complicated at all. Just get the candidate in as many live, unscripted situations as possible to prove that he can still think on his feet and still has the stamina to campaign. Schedule a live, one-hour town hall…

One more thing: I have to take every opportunity to point out that one of the last things Jim Henson’s version of Kermit did (quite possibly the VERY last thing he shot) was kill a Nazi.