Thing is, this is a pure ‘suspension of disbelief’ issue. The story’s about a band who made it big in the ‘70s, so you’ve just got to kind of go along with the premise that their songs are good enough that they’d be the kind of thing that made it big in the ‘70s while at the same time accepting that finding actual…

Music and Lyrics does a pretty good job of nailing both 1980s bubblegum pop and mid-2000s “pretentious but not nearly as deep as it thinks it is” pop. Though it may help that in both cases the stuff it’s mimicking is supposed to be that kind of semi-disposable pop music that’s fun to listen to but no one tries to…

These days this site is pretty much fueled by either (a) snideness, (b) smugness (c) self-righteousness or (d) some kind of combination thereof.

On the one hand, yeah, they could have probably got a few South Asian performers in there; sure, everyone bar two people are white in the film, but the Oscars performance is supposed to be a celebration of the film in general, not a shot-by-shot recreation of the film. They probably could have done a little bit better.

In total fairness, it’s slightly different in that the previous ones had an oddly triumphant gloating “WORST OPENING EVAH!!!” tone, whereas this one is kind of downplaying that a little because even the writers still here realise that “it went to box office number one, but not quite as number one as the last one…

Nope. I’m not buying a ticket to the Paris Hilton pity train. She might have had some bad things happen to her, but she is also a super-wealthy toxic narcissist bully who has contributed almost nothing good or positive to  modern popular culture and has in many ways actively helped make it worse. 

FWIW Paris Hilton’s perfume range(s) alone have brought in $2.5 billion. I’m pretty sure it’s not solely misogynistic heterosexual men buying it.

Well, I can’t argue with psychiatry’s answer to the drive-thru window.

My Masters from the University of Baywatch has opened plenty of doors for me.

I would assume the studios have a stake in most of the existing business of this nature — partial ownership, advantageous discounts, in-house set-ups, that kind of thing.

it would allow the new prop houses, armorers, and supply houses who switch over to take business from the old guard and make a great deal of money.

Gotham Knights, aka “That Batman Show With Literally No Members Of The Batman Family You Care About In It”.

Perhaps worth mentioning at this point that the Tweeter in question is a co-host of a podcast about bad movies (Chris Cabin from We Hate Movies). So he maybe has some different qualifiers for what makes a ‘wonderful’ filmmaker.

It’s because it’s Will Smith. When you strain out all the noise, that’s what it really boils down to. Absolutely no one in the Gawker network or Twitter or wherever would be bending over backwards the way they are to act like it was totally justified for a larger man to smack a smaller man in front of an audience of…

In other news, the list of deceased actors who the Academy either forgot about or plain couldn’t be bothered about includes Anne Heche, David Warner, Paul Sorvino, Philip Baker Hall, Gilbert Gottfried, Fred Ward and both Theo from Die Hard and the Bartender from The Shining:

So I was led to believe from the headline that someone actually slapped this donkey, and now I’ve read the article I don’t know what to think.

I suspect it’s largely because most novelists, especially ‘literary’ novelists like this, have more experience with English literature departments than bio-research laboratories.

cult musical Xanadu

Justice League Heroes on the PS2 was pretty Ultimate Alliance-y. Not nearly as good, but I had some fun with it back in the day. 

This is the double-edged sword of using existing IP, though. Sure, you’ve got a built-in audience ready to exploit... but that built-in audience wants you to get the details right. And if you don’t, they’ll get pissy and won’t be shy about saying so, which can ultimately lead to lost sales.