For my money, it’s Billy Bob’s best performance ever, and filled with great supporting work (esp. from Shalhoub).  It might also be the most serious, thoughtful, and deep of the Coen films.  (High praise, yes.)

One thing to remember about these ‘suburban male angst’ films from the 90s. It takes place a full 8 years before Bush crashed the economy into a stone wall, followed by the population spending the next 5 years happily clinging to any job they can find, no matter how soul-sucking. Also, it takes place a two years before…

I gave D&D as much vitriol and disappointment as anyone here for the last two seasons of Game of Thrones, when it was all said and done. Honestly, I’m still not over it.

Goddamn. Check out these lyrics from “Nights that Won’t Happen” (itself a play on “Knights in White Satin”) from the Purple Mountains album:

The three people in the top photo all look like they were created by a 13 year-old who is slowly but surely getting better at drawing.

Julianne Moore’s “SUCK MY D***” is awesome. It’s not about her loving Earl (which she might). She’s melting down because someone in her life is dying a horrible death and she’s having to make horrific decisions for someone when she DOESN’T know how she feels; if she can convince the pharmacist she loves him, then she…

I was 16 when this movie came out (1999 was a great year to be 16). I came home raving about it to my father, who saw it on my recommendation, given that I worked at the movie theater and he could see it for free.

He said he had seen better pictures on a milk carton. I didn’t recommend much to him after that. He loved…

I thought that sequence following her on public transport while the guy kept calling her was nerve-shredding, brilliant and fantastic, personally

So as a recovering heroin addict of just about 6 years (in a month), and someone who is in their mid thirties and no longer participates in any mind altering substances that all are included in my sobriety (other than a couple medications to treat a couple mental disorders that are more severe than not) - watching…

Why in the hell is Simon Pegg playing the gormless dad?

I’d only go so far as to say it’s secretly not bad.

Even as a teenager I was perplexed by that movie (which, in fairness, I watched at least four times). Half of it is soft titillation where Ryan Philippe is an audience surrogate hoping (like every teen in 1999) to see Sarah Michelle Gellar naked. Then it turns into a half-assed redemption story where he falls for…

“I reject your hypothesis."-

Tested out my new Regal Unlimited by spending Saturday at the movies; saw The Farewell (wonderful), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (improves upon second viewing, but I’m still not sure it’s an actual film rather than a bunch of decent- to-terrific scenes placed back-to-back), the It Chapter One re-release (also…

Saw Once Upon A Time In Hollywood for a second time (even better than the first) at Universal Citywalk in Los Angeles. Jesus, what a soul-deadening place that is. I’d never been there before and happened to be in the area at the right time, so off I went. It’s basically nothing but theme park-adjacent shopping for…

I finally made it to MCU phase III! I didn’t like Civil War as much as Winter Soldier, but the chase scene when they arrest Bucky and the airport fight delivered. I also liked T’Challa’s confrontation with the Sokovian bad guy at the end.

Did I have any sort of a pop culture weekend? Let me think. Well, I did discover AKMU (Akdong Musician) for the first time. Apparently a little late because the brother/songwriter got himself shipped off to the army recently.

I finished watching Neon Genesis Evangelion. It was the Netflix version, so now I’m supposed to watch Death(True)² and The End of Evangelion, but I want to take a breather from it first.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Just binged the second season of Derry Girls on Netflix. Might even be funnier than the first. The soundtrack is amazing!