Do you recall when Cruz staged a filibuster (to keep us from having healthcare) and read ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ on the senate floor? Apparently he was unaware that ‘Dr. Seuss’ was a rare genuine oldschool Socialist of the sort the right wing fantasizes over.

This reminds me of Jodi Foster supporting Mel Gibson.

Yeh, anime comics have totally turned Japan into a dystopian hellscape, amiright? It seems appropriate that 2020 is the year that ‘AKIRA’ takes place, the anime where a twerp with self esteem problems gains unchecked power and turns into a giant orange blob.

I understand Bae Doo-na (or Doona Bae) got the role because she was the only actress who would agree to appear on camera without makeup. It was only her second movie role. Currently (20 years later) Bae’s co-starring in the hit cable series ‘Forest of Secrets 2'

I’ve said before that watching Big Chill was watching former 60s radials devolve into Reagan Republicans. Once you recognize that its just depressing to watch. At least the smaller-but-superior 1980 John Sayles film that it ripped off, ‘Return of the Secaucus Seven’, didn’t have their former campus radicals turn…

The progenitor to Forrest Gump is of course Peter Sellers in ‘Being There’ fifteen years earlier. Another mentally challenged protagonist whose blankness gets misinterpreted as profundity. That movie ends with the hero literally walking on water. Fast forward to the present day, it turns out having a mentally challenge…

Talk about wanting to knock hats off people, this reminds me I own a nice red baseball cap. Unfortunately it too closely resembles the universally despised MAGA hat so there’s no wearing the hat in public for fear that I may be mistaken for a supporter of treason and bigotry

This just in. Trump looted paintings and statues from the ambassador’s residence in Paris when he was stuck there twiddling his thumbs after refusing to visit the graves of our fallen war dead. Trump would be a cartoonish joke if it weren’t for the 188,000 US citizens dead due to his neglect and incompetence.

I recall an unfortunately timed episode of the CW series ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ that aired mere days before the #MeToo movement came into being. The mentally ill heroine of the series takes revenge on her ex-fiance by posting lurid salacious lies on social media about him. The ex-fiance then loses his job and his…

I just watched episode 3 of the Korean sci-fi anthology series SF8. Wow, what worldbuilding.

Interesting little factoid, there’s a legitimate differences between how people pronounce tomato and to-mah-to but nobody pronounces potato ‘po-tah-to’.

There is something ‘American wealth class’ about taking a story of someone of humble origin who grows and switching it to someone inherently superior by birth. Basically, Mulan = Eric Trump. I’m reminded of TV executives in the 90s who would insist working class lead characters be turned into business owners because n…

You’d have a difficult time convincing me that Joss Whedon, of all people, is another Otto Preminger. I’ve seen no indication of that. Whedon famously wants his actor to speak his dialog and not go off improvising (he still has bad memories of Donald Sutherland butchering his lines in the Buffy movie). If you’re…

Not to mention superhero movies tend to get focus-grouped to death anyway. I understand they entirely reshot the ending to Captain Marvel after focus-grouping it. A large chunk of Suicide Squad’s Joker was left on the cutting room floor. The last Star Wars film was a retcon of the previous one due to viewer reaction.

Lee Suhyun from the the group AKMU sang on the soundtrack (at least for the Chinese version). Korean but home-schooled in Mongolia as a child.

I don’t think the technique of pulling the bow back to the ear applies to the Asian compound bow., That’s a later innovation.

Military formation archery is basically used as light artillery. A large group of archers fire a mass volley of arrows from max range and it rains down on the close-packed body of enemy infantry. No expertise required.

Initial previews had the film looking very impressive indeed. Then we got scenes of the ‘evil witch’ and the CGI swordfighting and I was “...oooooh.”

Coppola is punking Zack Snider and is Justice League director’s cut. Pick the worst film in your oeuvre, announce a ‘director’s cut’ promising this time it won’t suck quite so much. Watch the money roll in.

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