Just watching that trailer, and it’s less crappy looking than I would have expected from a million dollar 1994 superhero film. Hell, it looks like more fun than Josh Trank’s version, which is a strong contender for worst superhero film of this century.

Will one of the virgins be a strong-willed aspiring writer named Jane? Who looks like Gina Rodriguez?

“I was simply investing in that prostitute’s new mail-order candle startup!”

I wish there were a reality show about dating girls from Canada who you wouldn’t have met, to reflect my experience.

Did anyone ever put the internet back together after Kim Kardashian broke it?

I had no idea ‘The Critic’ existed when that episode of ‘The Simpsons’ aired, which obviously meant a few of the jokes went over my head, but that aside it didn’t affect my enjoyment of it at all. I just assumed Jay Sherman was another one of the fun one-off characters that the show frequently sprinkled in. (Often…

Is she funny or something?

What I really appreciated in this segment was Stewart pointing out that we just have so much speech at the moment; our communications technologies are so much more advanced than they were even thirty years ago. That leads to a plurality of voices (which I think is, overall, a net positive) on every issue, so on any…

You got any stats to back up that wild generalisation?

There’s an episode where the guys are talking about what they’d want their last meal to be if they were being executed, and Dale says he’d ask for the world’s rarest truffle, then tunnel to safety while they were looking for it. It’s followed by him saying, “But then I’d miss out on eating the world’s rarest truffle.…

I actually read the Guardian review right after this one, and got what I’d been looking for: a critical analysis of the qualities and merits of the film. What a concept!

The next one will be a musical.

By the time I learned what MoviePass was, it was already well into the flaming car-wreck stage of its life-cycle. What I didn’t realise is how insane the starting price was. $9.95 a month? Make it 40 bucks and maybe you’ve got something halfway sustainable.

I remember stumbling upon this video once and then bingeing all the other Message from the CEO ones. Good series.

Schadenfreude.

“To say whether I “liked” Megalopolis does its endeavors injustice”.

I think Krusty sums up my response to this review best:

I got so much joy watching Hassenger getting into it in the comments section. My favourite writers here were always the ones willing to acknowledge, and sometimes fight, the commentariat.

I used to write reviews for a little street-press in my home town, and the editor handed out a style guide to all new writers that included the line “You are probably not Hunter S. Thompson”. (Which was changed, when the time came, to “You are probably not the reincarnation of Hunter S. Thompson”.) We were encouraged…

So many great actors have died and yet Kinja still walks among us.