Someone once conducted a historical survey. They cross-checked marriage records with first child births in 17th century New England. They discovered the majority of first children were born 6 months after the marriage was registered. That would give the couple three months to 1) notice she missed her period, 2) panic,…

So, what are the current betting odds of America turning into a despotic tyranny soon? Between Trump openly sabotaging the postal service before the election, Mitch McConnell blocking all efforts to halt Trump’s unconstitutional behavior on multiple fronts, and a court system that’s been hastily packed with zealot…

What seems to differentiate a good year from a bad is the quality of the second-tier films. We usually get a consistent 5-ish outstanding films per year. If the other films that year suck it was a sucky year. In the other films that year were above average it was an above average year. Does Mission To Mars, Charlie’s…

Nah, Biden’s in there for 4 years to clear up the mess the psychotic Republican rapist made then he’s turning the reins over to a successor. Also, the landscape has changed. The Trump virus spreads unchecked across the nation. I’m no more confident that Biden will survive four years than I am I will.

SNL sketches don’t usually have a point. Usually they’re just actors practically shouting at the audience “I’M BEING FUNNY NOW! AREN’T I FUNNY? YOU THINK I’M FUNNY, RIGHT?’

Eyes Wide Shut is in competition with Barry Lyndon for the title of ‘most unwatchable Kubrick film’. God, I hated that film with a passion. Allen and Murray would have only been an improvement.

As part of my ‘lockdown therapy’ for the past couple months I’ve been watching random people react to music and musicians they had never heard before. Its an entire Youtube genre. Its heartwarming seeing the unfiltered joy on their faces. I’ve seen grown men weep. It reaffirms my (rather shaky) faith in humanity.

It seems Leto has stepped in to take over the role once played by the aging Depp. And I’m not talking about movie roles.

‘MacGruber’ is a lame SNL sketch (a redundant phrase) based on a TV series that’s been off the air for twenty nine years. I recall MacGyver jokes in the first year of The Simpsons. That’s how out of date this concept is. I’d rather sell my TV that watch that show.

I can’t wrap my head around any current actors trying to play legends like 1974 John Huston or Jack Nicholson. Polanski is easy - A short guy with a fake Polish accent. I can only imagine their concept of the early 70s will resemble ‘That 70s Show’. I cringe at most Hollywood ‘periods pieces’.

I’m watching a currently running series named either ‘Memorials’ or ‘Into The Ring’ (depending on where you stream it). An unemployed young woman decides to run for her local city council just for the paycheck. Yes, its an impossible sounding premise but is actually the most quirky charming series out there. The…

Tarantino’s films are so referential to previous films that there’s no purpose to them. Instead of being a mirror held up to society they’re a mirror reflecting another mirror. Instead of being allegorical they’re merely masterbatory.

Y’know, these days they tend to set a movie’s stakes so high  that it becomes counter-productive. Ho hum, another global zombie apocalypse, ho hum another portal to a demon dimension opening up. Ho hum another supervillain that wants to destroy all life in the universe for no logical reason. You don’t need a pandemic s…

As an aside, I was watching a Youtube video yesterday when a Trump ad popped up. Trump talking directly into the camera. Oh my God, the man comes off as a frickin’ moron even in his own campaign spots!

What was Jermaine Dupri’’s line? Strippers who rap. Shortened to STRAP.

I just checked the stats, as of 2:15 am one hundred and sixty thousand deaths since March fourth, and they’re projecting three hundred thousand deaths before Christmas.

I call that ‘pulling a Susan Sarandon’. Her 2016 assertion that there is no difference between Trump and Clinton is not just laughable in retrospect, it is a statement that has directly led to the deaths of 100,000 citizens.

‘Cancels’ is a pejorative term. In this age of high series turnover a more apt term might be ‘ends the run’ of a series. I’ve seen AV Club apply that word ‘cancel’ to series that had obviously run their course, finished their story line and ended on their own terms.

A Nina Simone movie that gets all the facts straight would be pretty goddamned depressing, considering the number of video clips I’ve seem of her trying to perform while stoned out of her mind. I doubt the coming Whitney Houston biopic will focus on her spending half her career stoned. Unless she gets get the ‘Marilyn…

What these ‘activists’ are doing is setting the stage for erasure of entire groups from popular consciousness. If producers are unable pass some arbitrary ‘purity test’ no matter how hard they try, they’ll eventually just stop trying. I recall ‘activists’ were enraged at Paul Simon for bringing Ladysmith Black Mambazo…