is this an episode of I Love Film?

I read the new Michael Crichton/James Patterson book earlier today (it’s awful, don’t bother) and it mentions “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” as an oldie, which made me sad. And then I remembered it’s been like 37 years an felt even sadder.

jesus christ i’m old 

I seem to remember a cool little network of blogs that was struggling for years to find a devoted userbase and dozens of talented writers until a kindly old group of billionaires stepped in to help them out. And that little network of blogs, whom nobody liked, grew up to be... sold off piece by piece until maybe one …

Alamo Drafthouse has been in dire straits since being purchased by private equity firm Altamont Capital.

You’re doing great .

Going back to my youth, the Onion had a story that stuck with me headlined

i wouldn’t even necessarily be opposed to a modern spinoff/soft remake. might be interesting to see a toy story with a modern kid, and they have to contend with an evil ipad or fucking whatever.

Time for some live action remakes.

I know I shouldn’t be, but I am still just baffled at the future existence of Toy Story 5. The ending to 3 was arguably one of the most perfect, poignant endings ever and an absolutely perfect bow on the franchise. Then... they made 4 anyway, which while not terrible, wasn’t especially interesting in any real way.

Anyw…

Down.

My two cents, feel free to debate: I feel like the relatively tepid critical reception (I do not care about box office) of Pixar’s last several years’ worth of original films (as opposed to sequels) is because their blend of whimsy and deep emotion (with stellar writing, plotting, and casting) was pretty amazing for a…

I saw the twitter dunking and it was mostly being made by people who weren’t even alive in ‘04 when Super Size Me came out. Even at it’s release ‘Oh wow guy eats nothing but Mcdonald’s and gets fat stop the presses’ was a wide criticism of the films concept. But at the time it was pretty hard to know what was being…

Me, procrastinating and not going to bed when I should: “Kelly Rowland got into a fight with Usher at Cannes?!”

Never seen a Mad Max Movie, eh?

As opposed to subtle, dignified names of Imperator Furiosa, Rictus Erectus, Cheedo the Fragile, Toast the Knowing, and Corpus Colossus from the last movie??

The Mad Max movies are positively loaded with stuff that is dumb, but not stupid. It's a fine distinction. 

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If you name your show Not Dead Yet then you’re basically just setting yourself up for someone to cancel you just for the punchline.

I got an Electric Sheep notification for this?