Problem is, it wasn’t isolated to Schneider or his shows. From what’s been made public, it sounds like this culture was endemic to all of Viacom during the Redstone/Moonves era. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Schneider was ousted immediately after Redstone died, and Moonves shortly after had his own reckoning.…

Back when the dam broke on the sexual assault allegations, I got into reading Crazy Days and Nights, a notorious gossip blog from a Hollywood lawyer, because they were dropping some pretty big bombs re: sexual assault on a regular basis. Some of which have been made public (e.g., they detailed all of the Bryan Singer…

Couldn’t help but think of this when reading about the BZ-whatever (why does every new EV have such an awful name?) wheel recall:

To be fair, in both films he plays a raving lunatic shouting at people about conspiracy theories on the street, so it seems like perfect casting to me. (Ignore the fact that he’s “right” in both movies for a second)

I never knew the TV show existed, but from the synopsis on Wikipedia, it literally just sounds like a generic police procedural with a hint of sci-fi.

Apropos of nothing, I was just thinking about this movie the other day, and how I’m pretty confident it’s still a top 5 Spielberg film for me. It and Munich are still so desperately underrated. Spielberg’s 2000s era was very hit or miss (The Terminal.... woof) but those two are certainly among his best of all time.

You’re probably right, but I also have a weird feeling that Lightyear isn’t going to be as big of a hit as people think it will be. It’s riding purely on name recognition, having no other real connection to the Toy Story universe, and--while I’m admittedly not in the target demo--it just doesn’t look very good. It…

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It sounded familiar, so I looked it up and discovered Biosyn was from the original novel and movie. They’re the competing company to InGen, and their CEO Lewis Dodgson (another very unsubtle reference) is the dude who hires Nedry to steal the DNA samples. Crichton is notoriously unsubtle; see his character named “Mick…

I noticed that too, but apparently he’s a character in the first film too? He’s the dude who hires Nedry to steal the samples. It makes sense, because Michael Crichton is not a particularly subtle dude. Like when a reviewer named Michael Crowley from New Republic trashed his novel/anti-climate-change screed State of…

I live in Kansas City, and I’m not aware of any independent game stores left anywhere in the metro here. They’ve all been gone for 10-15 years at least. We had one called Gameco that hung around at little longer but they’re long gone by now as well I think. The closest we have is Vintage Stock, which is still a…

How do you explain the 5 other Ys in the post?

I mean the Holy Bible is hands down the most influential piece of literature and storytelling in Western culture, but go off, king.

memes are incredibly hard to “force” and Sony’s marketing department are most definitely not the geniuses who managed to crack that code