Hey, I’ve watched it lately, and it holds up fine. It isn’t a masterpiece, but director Peter Yates makes things interesting, even if it pales compared to The Friends of Eddie Coyle, one of the harshest and bleakest descriptions of organized crime ever.

It turns out he plays a genuinely nice guy in the Venom movies. We’re supposed to suspect he’s kind of a dick, but instead he’s a good person.

The gritty reboot is called “Permanent Midnight”.

If I remember well, Be Here Now was released three or four months after OK Computer. Suddenly, the Blur-Oasis pseudo rivalry looked completely outdated.

Oasis wasn’t actually “legit” indie.

Whatever was added as the sole track to a second disc for a reissue of Definitely Maybe, shortly before the second album. That was for a while the most common version of the album in Europe.

Mojo wrote something similar after the time the band split. The cornerstone of Dig Out Your Soul (according to Noel) was supposed to be a song for which they had recorded the backing track, putting all their efforts on it. Then, for the umpteenth time, there was a feud between Noel and Liam in the studio, Liam left…

Alas... It won’t run on Pono...

At least, you weren’t doing anything disgusting involving Anne Hathaway.

There were two issues with the Netflix shows. Ike Perlmutter insisted on the seasons for the main shows having 13 episodes (so he could charge Netflix for more), and the masterplan for The Defenders required to introduce The Hand in Iron Fist, while Iron Fist ended up being repeatedly delayed as no writer could find…

Exactly. At some point, for quite a while, this place was entertaining and instructive, when it was written by people who a) knew the thing they were writing on b) knew how to write and c) wanted to share their thoughts, not just an opinion. Then, when the resources were drained, and a few talents left, it relied on…

Because every site can get the news, but what a site wants is differentiation, some added value that makes people return to the site over and over, because they find something that they don’t have elsewhere.

The original screenwriter for The Force Awakens, Michael Arndt, ended up being sidelined, officially for being too slow, in favor of JJ Abrams and a returning Lawrence Kasdan.

No problem. English is not my first language anyway.

By a singer who still has their entire mouth on anesthesia after a visit to the dentist.

Actually, as it’s common for such projects to remain buried and unmentioned for years. Daniel Craig had for instance signed to do a limited series based on Jonathan Franzen’s Purity, until it was delayed a couple of times, and unceremoniously cancelled.

It isn’t entirely a departure for Ben Stiller. The Cable Guy might have been promoted as some light Jim Carrey vehicle, but it was also a creepy thriller about an obsessive person who just defines himself from TV characters to make up for his own emptiness.

I guess that the moves applies to the material Neil Young fully oversees as a Warner recording artist. For CSNY and Buffalo Springfield, he’s part of a band, and a decision would be supposed to be collegial, and he was a guest on the Booker T solo album that was recorded for a different label, while the Stills-Young…

The dig at Young in the lyrics was good-natured, and Young himself acknowledged that his lyrics were a little too simplistic.

Dick is also partly to blame for Phil Hartman’s wife relapse in her coke addiction, according to Jon Lovitz.