It’s surprising for Grohl to be throwing such obvious shade Swift’s way, first because he’s clearly aware of the consequences of “the wrath of Taylor Swift,” and second because the pair have always been friendly in the past.

Both of them are great at ripping on Conan:

The way that Sutherland delivers that final line—“That is a coup d’etat”—right as LBJ looks directly into the camera—still gives me something just short of chills.

Nice. I went looking online for it and couldn’t find it in its entirety. It sucks that the whole monologue isn’t on YouTube or somewhere else. There are great moments in it before this starts.

When I was a kid I became obsessed with the JFK assassination, largely as a result of Stone’s film. As I got a little older and a little wiser and realized most of the film is bullshit, I still kept coming back to Sutherland’s Mr. X monologue. It, too, is largely bullshit, but Sutherland is just so damn good…

The piece—while later acknowledging it had a lukewarm reception upon release—begins by calling it “the classic 1987 parody.” My experience might vary widely from others here, but it dovetails with that assessment. I grew up with other kids loving it and quoting its stupidest lines ad nauseam. As an adult it hasn’t…

Unpopular opinion: Much like the Star Wars franchise, itself, Spaceballs isn’t that great, overall, but it’s benefited from nostalgia as its primary audience first watched it when they were teens or younger. It features some gifted comedians and has a few good gags, but most of it plays like a bad SNL parody, and it…

Bloom County definitely did. The premise was that Trump was in an accident, his body was irreparably damaged and the doctors needed to put his brain in another body, so they chose a comatose Bill the Cat.  

And, like I said, he’s made up shit about a lot of those other celebs also allegedly having gushed over him in the past only to turn on him since he’s ran for office. It’s happened so often that it amounts to a whole genre of bullshit that he peddles to his credulous followers.

You mean, besides how she criticized him on Twitter? The piece presumes that he’s telling the truth that they really met at an NBC upfront and she gushed over him, only to later criticize him. I’m saying that he’s probably making up the former in response to the latter. There’s no evidence that it happened; in fact,…

Well, duh! Actors like Messing are probably used to flattering slimy entertainment industry bigwigs for the sake of their jobs, but that doesn’t mean she’d endorse him for president of the country. Plus, Messing’s show was off the air by the time Trump launched his campaign, so she certainly didn’t have to pretend…

Hadn’t heard this one. The film had a priest as a technical advisor, and multiple people involved say that Friedkin asked him to perform an exorcism on set because a series of mishaps and the deaths of a few cast and crew members and their relatives had led multiple members of them to believe that the production was…

Glad to see the Featheringtons pull ahead. Good show, Featheringtons, good show.

Do Poltergeist next. Lots of real tragedy and trumped up bullshit around that one.

“I guess I’m upset.”

Wet Leg covering PJ Harvey's "Long Snake Moan" would be a dream come true.

The Pains of Being Pure of Heart did a pretty great cover if you dig them (which I do):

It really is kind of amazing how Seinfeld thinks that PC wokeness has killed television comedy when Veep and Curb, shows featuring his former collaborators, both had some of the most non-PC, un-woke content and just recently left the air each after long, critically acclaimed and commercially successful runs. What the…

I’ll never forget his shared appearance with Richards on Letterman following the incident, and Seinfeld telling the crowd who are—understandably—laughing nervously at Richards’ comments, “Stop laughing. It’s not funny.” That smug, clueless reaction pretty much sums up Seinfeld for me.

I use it in my visual studies courses all the time. Even students who haven’t watched a single episode of BB and know only the context that I give them about the characters and situation are typically impressed by the fluid camera and long take.