They've gone and taken essentially the same two-characters-sitting-around-talking-about-pop-culture format as those awful furry comics from a few months ago and actually made it interesting and insightful. Bravo.
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My favorite thing about this article is that it linked me back to the Kevin Roberts sketch.
Most appropriately this October, I finally got around to Ray Bradbury's The October Country, which was just excellent. Also read Going Clear by Lawrence Wright, Malafrena by Ursula K. LeGuin, and then indulged in some guilty pleasures by continuing to chip away at The New Jedi Order with Agents of Chaos II: Jedi…
Jesus, those old school X-wings make me feel ways about stuff.
It's been rumored for a while, and I think it was stated officially in the blurb for the upcoming tie-in novel Catalyst. It's been out there, but very easy to miss if you're not googling Star Wars news daily.
That kid's name is Database? The one who's not Millhouse or Lisa or Martin or Maggie? Database? How am I just learning this?
The other pilot is in The Empire Strikes Back. He's in the battle of Hoth, Luke refers to him by name.
Is Kallus the new Fulcrum? The voice definitely sounded like David Oyelowo.
Horror movies:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - Very good on the whole, but suffers from some pacing issues. I think I ultimately prefer the original.
It Follows - Loved it when it came out, but I hadn't seen it in more than a year and I wondered it if would hold up. I was very pleased to find that it did.
The…
Man I could go for a Big Mac.
Almost everything Amy Winehouse ever recorded.
I remember Willow fondly, but I haven't seen it in more than a decade.
Lucas actually approached Kasdan to work on the prequels, but ol' Larry declined. So he hadn't completely lost his judgement at least as far as early pre-production on The Phantom Menace.
I don't understand why so many people have such a hard time accepting Poe's "I got thrown from the crash" explanation. After all, Finn landed like a quarter of a mile away from the wreck. Sure, he had a parachute, but we don't know that Poe didn't. I dunno, it just never bothered me much and I get a little annoyed…
That Grey's Anatomy clip makes me want to eat a gun.
The fact that this is what Erinn Hayes follows Children's Hospital with depresses the hell out of me.
The casting for the witches makes this sound distinctly goofier than it is in my vague recollections. I'm likely conflating this with Narnia and the Phantom Toll Booth and the dozen Roald Dahl books I read around the same time, but I was under the impression that these books were kind of dark, and the…
I ought to reread this book so I can determine how I feel about the direction this is taking. I know I liked it a lot as a child, but I remember nothing about it.
There's something so dreamlike and uncanny about animation in the original Kong. So much of why I love that movie comes from the creepy murkiness of the effects, which is something the remakes haven't even been interested in attempting to replicate, instead just trying to make everything as naturalistic as possible.…