Yeah, 15 years ago I remember being genuinely shocked that he was able to get a bunch of rodeo bar patrons to sing along to “Throw the Jew Down the Well.” Like, I really thought the lyrics to that song would be viewed as socially unacceptable and un-American everywhere in the country.

That RBG bit was damn fine television and justified Real Time’s continued existence for several more years. It perfectly captured the horror we all felt when the push notification first blinked on our phones— that we were already conditioned to understand within seconds that the Court was lost forever, and that it was…

Like many people, I despise most aspects of the Bill Maher persona, but he’s one of the only left-of-center TV hosts who even books conservatives/Trumpies, and he usually calls bullshit to their face, which we don’t often see anymore. Stewart was far better at this type of thing during the Bush era, but nearly every…

The industry is going to be in a weird place for a while. Fauci recently said that by the end of 2021 you’ll be able to watch a movie in a theater without a mask, but *will* people actually do that in pre-pandemic numbers right away? The studios still have six months worth of movies that they don’t feel comfortable…

Cavaziel is now 51. Jesus was 33 when he died. How are they going to explain Jesus aging over 15 years in the span of three days?

Yeah, it sure is unfair how that double standard forced Jimmy Fallon to throw himself at the mercy of the court...

The problem is more that the ongoing collapse of the movie theater industry is going to pull the studios along with them. It’s similar to the music industry during the CD era — they had a business model that involved plenty of impulse purchases when people were out shopping at Tower Records with friends. Then people…

George Lucas and Stan Lee were always pretty vocal about their liberalism, and their values were splashed all over their work even if they had kept quiet about their political views.

I hadn’t even seriously thought about it when I wrote my comment but now I’m jonesing for a big-budget Chinese wuxia version of the George Washington story. The more they tried to offend us by having Washington wire-leap over the battlefield bayoneting redcoats, the more awesome it would be.

It’s kind of like if the Chinese film industry made a movie about George Washington, right?

There’s probably something to this, when I was an 80s kid I would watch a movie over and over just because it was on HBO a lot, or it was one of the few things we had on VHS. Then when we moved to DVDs in the 90s, I owned only 100 movies plus the three art house Netflix discs that I never watched and never sent back.…

Isn’t Franz’s complaint that the early albums were a group effort drawn from jam sessions, but the later (more commercially successful) albums were David Byrne coming into the studio with demos after having written everyone’s parts for them? Like, they really seem to have a sad that they had no creative control over…

“I wasn’t blinded by the light until I was already a man. By then, I was revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night.”

So that’s what it would look like if Bane recorded a roots rock album after breaking Batman’s back.

Timothee Chalamet is about the same age as Kyle MacLachlan was when he shot Dune 1984. It only seems otherwise because we’re old. Everything looks like a YA movie when you’re an Old Adult.

Also, what’s up with every scene being between step-siblings or stepmom/stepson and so on? That also wasn’t a thing back in my day.

It’s so weird that everyone involved had to flat out state that even though this totally feels like Alien: The Spinoff Prestige Cable Series, it takes place in its own universe.

Yes that’s exactly what I’m saying. “Cancellation” is a spectrum. People who aren’t convicted sexual predators will continue to work in all fields after they are canceled, but their ability to stifle criticism or control their image will be reduced. Ray Fisher will never have as much power in Hollywood as Joss Whedon,…

Cancellation has consistently proved to be a temporary phenomenon unless you’re convicted of an actual crime. Just a few short years ago, Whedon had recently directed one of the highest grossing films of all time, and tweeting against him would have ended most actors’ careers. Post-cancellation, Whedon will continue…