Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

To each their own but he is arguably one of the best standups and writers of the past 3-5 years. His timing and delivery defy his age. Between his comedy specials and his Broadway show and the stellar SNL appearances, I doubt he is going anywhere. As to his ego, if you watched his stand-up specials, you’d know that…

You seen his actual standup?

Man, that book is something else. It’s... it’s a despicable thing, for real. It should not be a book. It’s crazy as hell that it wasn’t a blog. Like, it is madness that so many editors, publishers, distributors, and booksellers agreed that it was a thing that should exist as a physical object to sell to people for…

Solo was good.

Tom, if you’re looking for a follow-up feature as you enter the home stretch with this one, may I suggest a year by year breakdown of the biggest film financial failures (i.e. greatest difference between budget and return). You can call it The Popcorn Chumps.

*pushes glasses up nose*

We could only wish.

So the new version is going to be more like ‘The Running Man’?

Agreed... my response to his shoes is essentially, “eh, dorky.” It’s not revelatory or what I’d choose to focus on when talking about this shitsack person, and the jokes people made here about the shoes are pretty weak.

I think we can more or less piece together what happened at this point. She was annoyed that a teenager with no acting experience was the lead over the professionals, the rest of the cast took the star’s side, Smith, being a teenager, probably wasn’t as magnanimous about that as he could have been, her personal life…

Russell’s right-leaning politics aside, there is an argument that most celebrities of any political stripe live in rather self-obsessed cloisters of wealth, luxury and privilege that completely set them apart from 90% of the population, meaning that they mostly have very little of value to say on most given subjects…

I don’t like to base judgements on the way people look, but.....

What, this isn’t a face you can trust?

Anyone who wants to tell me that the sequels were worse than this flaming sack can exit

Looking ahead to what the column will be covering in months to come, I do think the end of the ‘90s sort of marks the end of interesting, enduring blockbusters being the norm rather than the exception from year to year. We’re looking ahead to a lot of franchise movies made more to cater to fanbases than anything else…

You know, in the lead-up to the Phantom Menace, it looked like Lucas was staying in the same mode he had for ESB and RotJ. He was focused on revolutionizing the movie industry by shooting in digital, using virtual sets with CGI characters in them, and we just assumed that he’d have capable people in charge of actually…

customers stuck in the store because they didn’t want to be seen leaving Fantasy Island,

Different strokes for different folks I guess, but I largely found Chappelle’s opening unfocused, sloppy, and seeming more like something he was putting together in the moment. There were a couple of sharp jokes and commentary, but a lot of duds and fading stream of conscious thoughts that never went anywhere. I’m a…

You’ll cream your jeans when you see