Mandatory blurb about how Lundgren was a chemistry whiz (and world-class karate competitor) who had recently received a Fulbright scholarship to MIT when he met Grace Jones, became her bodyguard, dated her, and followed her advice to quit the egghead route and become an actor. The guy has more going on upstairs than…

I prefer this version:

“Angelica” is actually pretty bitchin’. The whole album slaps, really, not just the singles.

Yeah, she’s mediocre at best on screen; you could sub in countless actors of the same caliber and get the same performance or better. Off screen she’s repeatedly been a toxic, shitty person. There’s plenty of documentation out there of her abusing concrete venue staff, her own staff, co-stars and crew, etc., if anyone…

Different strokes for different folks. I think it’s pretty much perfect. It might be my favorite film of the past twenty years--at least.

There is also the first chapter of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, which is often anthologized as a stand-alone short story entitled “Battle Royal”. It’s about the white leaders of a southern town forcing black schoolboys to battle until only one is left standing. The boys don’t fight to the death, but they do…

I teach an Intro to Film class and the required textbook is Looking at Movies by Dave Monahan and Richard Barsam. They discuss Juno extensively in the first chapter, so I have the class watch it for the first week’s film. For what it’s worth, I’d say Monahan and Barsam definitely believe the film puts its thumb on the…

they did it because it was politically expedient or good for their “brand.”

As long as his character isn’t supposed to look like Harrison fuckin’ Ford.

Saw Love and Thunder over the weekend, and thought it was just fine. I’d give it a solid B. It wasn’t as good as Ragnarok, but it was better than the other two Thor movies by far. It blends stories from the comics—Jane as Thor and Gor, etc.—just like many MCU movies do, and it was an enjoyable take on those stories.

Gee, that long and with that wonderful personality... I wonder how you could possibly still be in the grays. /s

Hi, Ben!

Oh the irony of you choosing Ellie Kemper—on this dumpster fire of a website that crucified her for nothing—as your choice for racism’s avatar.

I was really hoping #1 would be “America’s Ass”. Not Cap--just “America’s Ass” with a close-up pick of Chris Evans’s butt. It would have made the five days of needless slideshows worth it for that gag alone.

I know lots of folks had a snarky field day when “Old Man Yells at Cloud” David Simon said that The Wire wouldn’t stand a chance today, but this news is an example of what I think he had in mind. The Wire’s ratings were notoriously abysmal, but critics loved it and HBO stood by it, even through its perceived-sophomore…

And let the super-annoying Ted Wheeler open his mouth to complain only to get a mouthful of tentacle or something.

I’ve been off this train since his behavior on the set of I Heart Huckabees was reported in The New York Times back in like 2004 (and a special “Fuck that guy” for the sexist shit he said to national treasure Lily Tomlin). Nothing he’s done since has made me question that choice.

[Jason howls in agony] might be my favorite subtitle of the entire series.

Yeah. My only guess is that they decided to go with marketing the finale as “feature-length” or whatever. I know the Duffer brothers were playing up that angle in interviews, anyway, saying it was basically a movie. I watched the two episodes back-to-back anyway so it was a half a dozen of one, six of another…

The runtimes didn’t bother me. There’s even a fade to black about halfway into “The Piggyback” that just as well could have been the end to a penultimate episode that set up the finale of the second half. So it was like three episodes instead of two. I certainly wasn’t complaining.