I unironically love listening to him talk about acting.  It’s fine to enjoy his performances as wacky or over-the-top, but he’s just experimenting, with a really playful spirit.  It’s like when you listen to really weird, ridiculous free jazz, and someone says “this is so pretentious, how can they be serious?” and…

Thank you for this article about something that didn’t happen.

Realistically, whoever owns the franchise rights at the moment (I think Paramount?), or whoever wants to make another F13 movie, they just need to give Camp Cunningham and Camp Miller a license fee and a royalty cut like in any other licensing deal and life is golden. It just means that the fees they used to send to…

Nah, I asked Don Mancini on social media if it was as simple as I thought, namely that a studio owned the title but not the characters, and he owned everything else, and he said yes.  It's a mistake to think that the Chucky situation is anything more than a legal carve-up.

Wow, this is HUGE news.  Hollywood never ever continues a franchise without the original creators, usually they go ahead only with the blessing or involvement of the person who created the thing as a means of artistic expression.

Hey, is Gal Gadot actually cool or interesting? It just occurred to me that I’ve never seen her do anything compelling and I don’t really think I’ve ever seen her be charismatic either. Like, I just assumed she was one of those actors who’d done some really good interesting stuff early on and then chased the Hollywood…

I still feel weird about the salacious tone with which all the past misdemeanours are recounted.  They should of course be recounted but there’s something stylistically off about the way it’s done on the AV Club.  Maybe I’m just sensitive.

I know I’m generalising but I don’t imagine too many people with an appetite for a traditional multi-cam studio sitcom would be turning to HBO Max in the first instance in 2021. You’d have to be a real, uh, Head-head to miss this one.

Genuinely came to this article expecting his producing to be the main thrust of the article.  He gave me my favourite ever American film, Repo Man.

Okay but who gives a shit about the Academy Award nomination? Wertmuller’s work is so much bigger than that stupid institution. It riles me that the shorthand for describing Lina Wermuller’s importance is “she was the first woman nominated for Best Director”. The Academy Awards started as a means of…

It looks great, but the insufferable POS in me is going “Why make it look like cheap 70s 16mm filmstock if you’re going to put expensive modern camera moves in?”.

I know I know: yes I am a riot at parties.

Such a delightful, generous, clever man.

This is both extremely fascinating (chess as pure program!) and extremely boring (oh... chess as pure program). Essentially chess has eaten itself.

In the case of Priest and Queen I think it was more of an industry concern than a social one.  It's often framed as "the fans can't find out" but it was more accurately "we don't want an advertising boycott".

Right, so this article is a Kid Rock promo.  Cool.

My feeling is that they got back INTO the closet slightly when American audiences became a going concern. The idea of a gay performer in the UK in the 70s was almost tedious in how unremarkable it was.

There was speculation around which specific member said it, SBC never specified. It was just “a meeting with Queen” in his telling, I’m pretty sure.

I promise I don’t care but Mario lived in New York didn’t he? The original Mario Bros took place in the sewers of New York, I seem to recall. I’m pretty sure that the arcade flyer said that. And I’m fairly sure that they went down a magic pipe and emerged in the Mushroom Kingdom, no? Or am I just getting that from the…

Curiously, I think that Japanese live-action adaptations of anime are generally pretty successful. Some are arguably too flashy for their own good, but there’s quite a few media franchises in Japan that flit happily between animation, live-action, video games, manga, and back again without any real problem. But…

You know what this whole conservatorship conversation needs more of?  Salacious celebrity feud reporting.  Great work.