It’s an experiment. It’s supposed to be impractical, and it will be a unique viewing experience when it finally comes out. In addition to the actors actually aging, rather than doing a simulation of aging, the earlier scenes will be dated in a way that it’s hard a for a “period piece” to match. There are subtle…

That’s sort of the key. There are plenty of reasons not to do a movie this way, but it’s experimental in the best way. Watching an actor play the same character for many IRL years is something that happens a lot on television, but it’s less common in movies. And TV shows tend to hide the inexorable march of time by…

This is the most theater kid thing ever

Came here for this and ... (Oh baby)... The illustrations of Gustav Dore. Pantagruel, Don Quixote, Paradise Lost ... Dante ... Below is Jacob Wrestling with an Angel, and Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Dante's Divine Comedy.

It’s crazy to imagine McDonalds or any food chain encouraging children’s reading with giveaways like that anymore.

The Nutcracker Suite. One of my favourite Christmas rituals is sitting in a dark room with the Christmas tree all lit up, listening to the Nutcracker and looking out at the stars.

(1) The whole brains thing comes from Return of the Living Dead (“Do you wanna parrrrty”)

I was listening to Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington wax on about how revolutionary they were for The Ricky Gervais Show podcast back in 2005; they reveled in it being the most downloaded podcast, outpacing everyone’s expectations, etc. Podcasting isn’t new. People just keep discovering it for the…

Actually (pushes glasses up) that’s geekdom - becoming really obsessed with a subject, usually a pop culture related one. Nerdom is more academic.

Fri., 16 Aug. 2019 - Spent the day at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. If interested, more details in following blog post etc.

I didn’t think CBS cancelled procedurals. I thought they all went 15 years and generated 4 spinoffs.

I remember when there was more on TV.

You have to include the Wonderful World of Color days from TV.

I’m always up for some scarlet fever!

That’s because Disney is of the obsessively pandering mindset that all films have to appeal to all people.

It is not at all obvious from the Variety article that the issue was the anti-Nazi message in and of itself. Depicting Hitler (even an imaginary one) is always going to be controversial (see, for example, Lavie Tidhar’s “A Man Lies Dreaming”), especially in a comedic context (Lubitsch’s “To Be Or Not To Be” was…

Oh but isn’t it all worth it so Wolverine and the Fantastic Four can traipse around with the Avengers.

I’m looking forward to this show, but am still annoyed by the teenage daughter angle. Not that the 72-year old Danson can’t have a teenage daughter, but wouldn’t it be more interesting to have him rebuild a relationship with an estranged 30 or 40 year old daughter and maybe his granddaughters?

I have a similar experience in my 50s, but there was plenty of stuff back in my 20s that I was vaguely aware of, but thoroughly uninterested in. Now I have a pretty broad span of history to choose from, and little reason to just wallow in whatever happens to be “cutting edge”. I rather enjoy “discovering” music that I…

Please add a link to anti suicide support phone lines. That should be automatic on every story about suicide. Period.