Black is selfishly trying to protect his Hollywood rep and his income.

This is not news. Members of the clan including Raekwon and U-God have been saying this publicly for years. Basically they were paid individually to record some verses without being informed that they would ultimately be used for a collective Wu-Tang album. 

Jack’s reaction here is really disappointing. Even if he disagreed with the comment and thought it was in bad taste, throwing your friend and creative partner for decades under the bus to this extent is a big shame.

A24 makes “elevated horror” where the horror is psychological. Gritty is just plain horrific on a non-metaphorical level. More a Blumhouse thing.

keep alive the mantle of gritty and raucously interior inner-city films

James Gunn's The Suicide Squad is actually really good. (have to write it out so people don't mistake it for the other shittier suicide squad) but yeah animation wise DC has been the heavy hitter for a while now...just so long as you don't look at the cars...or planes...or for gotham by gas light the giant set piece…

Brown’s really only 20? I honestly thought they were all older than that now.

Sadly no,  I think average randos don’t even know what it is.  

You think people won’t care about Project 2025?

...and respecting their late colleague’s intention to keep the work out of the hands of advertisers.

He had no reason to believe the gun wouldn’t fire. It wasn’t supposed to be loaded with live ammunition, period. The responsibility for ensuring there was no live ammo on set and in the device designed as a lethal weapon that was in perfect mechanical condition fell to the AD and the armorer, not Baldwin. SAG-AFTRA…

Are we sure the Beastie Boys aren’t vexatious litigants? I hear that they’ve got more suits than Jacoby and Meyers.

I love a Gen X band keeping the torch alive for getting PAID FOR THEIR DAMN MUSIC. 

“He might be a rapist, but by God he’s no hypocrite.”

I also assume it made him available for B99, so again, the right choice.

Problem is that’s a good recipe for killing those genres altogether because guess what? Streaming’s not that good a profit generator either! That’s what the studios all found out, the revenue from streaming is weird and unreliable. If Netflix makes a comedy, maybe that contributes to their total subscriptions, maybe…

The last time I tried to go to a regular theater that wasn’t the small one close to me that’s now closed, I was with 2 friends.  We showed up half an hour before showtime and they did not have 3 seats together for us.  So we walked out and went to a showing of Spaceballs for like $5 each at a small local theater. …

I saw the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special in a theater with a bunch of fellow nerds and it was a fabulous experience. Would love to see that happen more often, though there’s probably a tipping point in there somewhere.

they aired ‘the curse’ weekly in theatres here and i saw the finale in a packed house with a group all seeing it for the first time. it was a really, really fun way to end a series.

A $1 increase from a service that hasn’t raised prices in over a decade is bleak? Have you been outside at all since 2016? (Also, quit making me defend end-stage capitalism, goddammit.)