Sunset Boulevard is also an absolutely dreadful musical with only two good songs in the entire 2.5 hour run (and to be fair they are brilliant songs). I saw the recent Broadway revival with Glenn Close and she was magnificent, but the show is a slog.

The Band’s Visit is exquisite and one of my favorite musicals.  No intermission to break the mood.  The pro shot recording (please tell me they did it) would be entirely sufficient and most welcome.

I believe Madonna is just about ready to do the Sunset Boulevard movie.

The Broadway run was at the Minskoff Theatre which had/has a massive hydraulic lift that can lift an entire set up and out of the way. So the primary set was the opulent house and the staircase and it took up the entire stage. When they wanted to have a scene somewhere else they would raise the living room set - in…

I saw the original Broadway run of Sunset Boulevard with Glenn Close. The only thing memorable was the expensive staging and that the audience that night had numerous celebrities. The music was meh.

I definitely prefer the pro shot recordings of the stage productions. I haven’t seen Waitress, but the ones I’ve seen like Newsies, Broadway Bandstand, and Hamilton have been really good quality and still captures part of the danger and excitement from doing something live. I’m sure in the right hands/feet, this Holida…

I was about to make the same comment about Skinamarink. It was such a unique experience but it’s not one I feel compelled to revisit, as much as I found it to be an evocative nightmare.

Maybe she comes back as Power Girl?

Yes! The video about the bird in Karateka acting as a form of copy protection gave me instant flashbacks to one of the first games I ever played on CD-ROM: King’s Quest VI. That game has multiple insta-death sections (including a perilous mountain and a dank crypt) you can only navigate successfully using the game’s…

Throw in a cameo from Nastassja Kinskiand I’m there with you.

I fully agree. I remember seeing it alone in the theater and it just devastated me. I re-watched it recently and it just floored me again.

The fact that you posted this without being hugely embarrassed itself is hugely embarrassing.

“it is a dumb thing people can enjoy without paying extra for and without needing to pay too much attention to while they doomscroll on the couch.”

I watched it and enjoyed it. While a movie like Past Lives may have been better directed and be more technically sound, Rebel Moon was way more engrossing. It’s not a great movie, but I don’t regret watching it and it kept my attention. I have a soft spot for movies that involve a ragtag group of heroes assembled to…

I really liked the first one, but the trailers on this one havent grabbed me.

Just think of it as Lobo’s extended drug and booze induced dream, and in a few years we’ll see him wake up to get back to work.

It seems like a mistake to use some new and inexperienced tornado for the Twister sequel instead of bringing back the same one from the first movie so we can see how it’s been getting on over the years.

Every once in a while I think of The Spitfire Grill and her. I remember it being a big deal in the entertainment news world of its time.