Yeah, I know that feeling. I stayed at a large Hyatt just after travel started recovering from the pandemic. The hotel had a huge atrium that normally would have been occupied by a bar and brunch area, plus conference and ballrooms. All nearly devoid of any people or activity. Even the front desk only had a single…

I’m pretty sure both Tim Burton and Michael Keeton were well known prior to Beetlejuice.  Mr. Mom and PeeWee’s Big Adventure were already on endless repeats on cable TV by that time.

There are large sections of the US, unfortunately, where any bread with a bit of texture is regarded as “stale”.

The back-end money from the box office is still there for the actors, but if I understand correctly, this is only one portion of their usual compensation. It’s those other sources (once again, my understanding, I’m not claiming any special knowledge) that previously often made up the larger share of their pay (DVD…

More of those top tier might get on board if those back-end deals keep becoming less lucrative. TV and DVD sale residuals have dried up, and from what I understand, streaming residuals are nowhere near enough to make up the difference.

Historical records from that era are sketchy at best.

It just hit me that Patton was not on this list.  Oh, these young ‘uns...

Well, the Mozart parts are more or less accurate to the rough outline of his life.

Me too.  I appreciated what they did, but something about their flagship beer didn’t agree with me.  I liked the product, but even a single beer would give me a raging headache several hours later.  I had my last Anchor Steam about 25 years ago.

I’ve never seen that version, but I thought whoever played Napoleon in the 1970s BBC version of War and Peace did a great job. Too many portrayals of Napoleon fall into the “Effeminate Frenchmen” trope, but the guy in this brings the kind of magnetic masculine bravado that you would expect for someone who was so…

Height is basically hitting your nutritional potential when puberty sets in, but not going through puberty early due to obesity.

The “Hitler-on-horse” memes miss the fact that France didn’t initiate the fighting in the majority of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

I am definitely intrigued, but I hope the actual film lighting doesn’t look as dark as it appears in this preview. I probably won’t get a chance to see it in theaters and all this low lighting makes me think it will hard to follow on my home TV. Seems like Scott was going for a Barry Lydon-type lighting but without…

I love this bit from Catherine Tate:

Edgar Wright has sadly only disappointed me after the near-perfection that is Hot Fuzz.  I can’t think of a film that better demonstrates the results of good editing.

“Some studies suggest that Irish moss may help boost the immune system and support digestion.”

Yeah, I was never a fan of super hero comics, but even I knew who Stan Lee was before I was 10, and I could clearly distinguish Marvel from DC characters. That’s how effective he was as a spokesperson.

I haven’t read or watched a single biography of Walt Disney that covers the time period of the creation of Mickey Mouse that doesn’t mention Ub Iwerks (including stuff produced by the Disney company).  He might not be a household name like Disney is, but the name of the company always was “Disney” not “Disney-Iwerks”.

The story might not change, but then Disney would miss out on all that sweet, sweet toy licensing money.

I found myself as an unpopular college freshman, nearly alone on campus over Thanksgiving weekend when virtually everyone else either went home or was invited to a friend’s house if they lived too far away. With the campus virtually deserted by Wednesday afternoon, I decided to take the shuttle bus over to the nearby…