Dana Gould apparently apologized to Campbell.
He said he developed Stan and was shopping it around long before Ash Vs. Evil Dead was even a thing.
I think there's enough room in the world for two cranky older dudes stomping on demons.

Something else you don't hear much about when criticizing the movie is that, for all the touting of being historically researched, this film apparently paints a saintly picture of the Turner rebellion.

Well, way to give away the whole movie.

I hated the ending of The Terror as well.
The true terror is Simmons case of white guy attitude in concocting that dumb ending.

I've listened to it twice and I'm just not into it.
Kinda reminds me of the stuff Dinosaur Jr have been putting out since Lou Barlow came back into the fold; that is, fine, effortless songs that are also weirdly edgeless, sparkless.

Being a musician, the people who you play with really matters; chemistry is real.

Theres also a great part in the Bogdonovich Tom Petty doc where they are all singing in a round, and Roy says he doesn't want to sing the line, "Trembling Wilbury," because it seems like a joke about his voice and he keeps laughing.
So they switch the order and lo and behold the line still comes back to him.

In know I saw this via some vhs bootleg that, if memory serves, had no subtitles or illegible subtitles.
Damn if they would have helped much anyway.
My impression, and thats all I've got, was that is was like a DTV ode to Seijun Suzuki.

Well, it's fitting that someone as bland and safe as Holt replaced Williams.
Williams was like Holt's polar opposite, a newscaster so enamored with his own wit and personality, he hung himself.
You could always tell Williams first concern with any story was, "Can I use this report to make me look smart and funny?"
Holt…

Lester Holt was barely there because Lester Holt is barely there as a tv news host.
He only got the NBC prime news gig because Brian Williams shit the bed.
It's not that Holt is bad; he's the stuff of small doses, dishing a field report or robotically hosting some tabloid nonsense on Dateline.
As a figurehead he has zero…

Huh?
Penises don't have hoods.
Oh, wait…

I'll say this for DUNE.
The acting in DUNE is hands down, across the board, way better than the acting in A New Hope.
Save for Harrison Ford and maybe Anthony Daniels, all the acting in Star Wars is either gratingly terrible or workmanlike competent.
DUNE may be a plotty mess, but every actor in it is dialed-in and…

I liked DUNE as a kid, but you know, it couldn't hold a candle to Star Wars and stuff that had better toys.
As an adult, I saw it as a cumbersome mess, just so dense with detail explained very plainly and almost dispassionately (the voice overs, general exposition), but the thing is no doubt amazing visually.

My poor, poor mother escorted young me to so many 80's films that were of an ilk she HATED (Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone, Megaforce, Dark Crystal, to name a few) .
I can remember her reading the DUNE glossary and barely masking her terror at what she was about to sit through.

My mother was a huge Bob Ross fan.
As banal as what he did may be, there is something to be said for his combo of technique and, well, joy, that is so applaudable.
While I won't say my mom is a great artist, what she learned from a little painting in college and a lot of Bob Ross on PBS made her able to conjure a…

Ugh.
Fuck you, old age.

I do, because I want to make sure that ice trough is clean.

I haven read the book, but I recall reading about how Groom was so upset with how Hollywood sanitized it's adaptation/neutered his cynicism that he wrote the Gump sequel purely out of a mix of contractural obligation and creator's spite.
His only aim was to write a sequel that would be nigh unadaptable, and apparently…

As for Wiseguy and Goodfellas, one bit omitted from the book-to-movie that I always loved explained how, despite how the mob would rip-off those they were in business with (which the movie depicts), they were also bolstered and protected by the public.
There is an anecdote about how a mom and pop store in a more or…

"… It’s not easy to perform in front of millions.”