What? You don’t cuddle with your new nanny in the bath after hiring them?

I’m sure it also helped that she had just worked with both Roth and Black on The House with a Clock in its Walls and spoke in interviews about how much fun she had.

its entire conceit rests on the premise that there would be a large-scale sanctioned murder competition in one of the United States’ primary cities, with Awkwafina somehow never learning of its existence.

RIP, Britta’s Dad.

While I have no doubt that there was/is some homophobia going on, especially at the studio executive level, I’m inclined to believe that he was indeed fired simply because he cast as Ratner’s Superman. When Ratner left and the project changed, the casting changed with it. Happens all the time.

Fountains of Wayne - “Bright Future in Sales”

+1 for Wiedlin. “Rush Hour” is hugely underrated.

Obviously not canon, but David Michod’s The Rover (2014) more or less plays like a prequel to the first Mad Max. If Mad Max charts the beginning of the post-apocalypse, The Rover charts the last gasp of the old world desperately fighting a losing battle to maintain some semblance of order.

Especially the claim that it “influenced” James Cameron. Cameron was pushing the bounds of CGI long before Lucas decided to throw his directing hat back in the ring. ILM wouldn’t have been ready for Lucas’ vision if Cameron hadn’t been pushing them past their limits on The Abyss & T2.

My dad is a retired police officer. I remember some guy asking why he had to wear a safety helmet on his motorcycle. My dad answered something like “So at least one part of you is identifiable after the crash.”

Because this is an article about movies that successfully skirted copyright issues, whereas the producers of “The Island” ended up having to pay a settlement.

People have been putting their junk into popcorn buckets for decades now, just usually from the bottom.

I experienced that same feeling today, but with super high winds that were rocking my car rather than an earthquake. A brief bit of anxiety, followed by the relief of realizing it was only a dangerous natural phenomenon and not an engine problem.

No love for the nearly-immortal Crown Vic? If I’m going to have one car forever, I want the one that stubbornly refuses to die.

Iron Eagle, Jaws 3D and Enemy Mine were my reference points for him. Pretty sure it’s the same for any kid who stayed at home a lot in the late 80's and had cable TV.

B-Bops in Iowa. 50's-style Burger chain known for flame-grilled burgers and chocolate shakes. Has a walk-up window, a driver’s side drive-thru and a passenger-side drive-thru. Really good fries, too.

Eggs and rabbits are indeed symbols of fertility, and were symbols used pre-Christianity to represent springtime and the rebirth/renewal of nature that occurs. Like with many other holidays with pre-existing iconography, Christianity tried to retcon the imagery into their own holidays, with very mixed results.

If Pitt & Jolie each spit into their palms before engaging in a firm handshake to seal the agreement, no judge on Earth has the power to overturn it.

I understand where Proyas is coming from, but if anybody is going to play gatekeeper it should be James O'Barr. He created the comic as a means of dealing with his fiance getting killed by a drunk driver, then watched the narrative of the character get permanently associated with the death of someone else instead. 

I’m an Iowan, with all of my mother’s side being from Minnesota. I have spent a lot of time up north (mainly Duluth & Cloquet), and my experience has been somewhat the opposite (yet somehow with the same impact on other drivers). The northern Minnesotans I’ve had the displeasure of driving with were actually…