You’re telling me you had a chance to write about how Twixt actually rules and is secretly a pretty cool entry in the Coppola canon and didn’t?? For shame, Jessie, for shame. (I’ve always wanted to see One From the Heart and the visuals you describe make me want to watch it more)

I would pay good money to see a fight between Danzig and Morrissey. Like, front row seats for $20,000. If someone doesn’t bite an ear off I’d be disappointed.

I’m disappointed - but not surprised - that you left off my favorite dumb/good Netflix find starring Feore, the “Bon Cop/Bad Cop” series. A by-the-books Toronto cop has to team up with a by-the-seat-of-his-pants Montreal cop and Canadian crime hijinks ensue. Highlights include a Rick Mercer cameo and a hockey mascot…

Sam has no super powers. He might be “worthy” of holding the shield, but the first time he lifts it to block a bazooka blast, or Thanos’ fist, or a joking Hulk smash, or literally most anything, he’s DEAD. Flattened like a pancake. Unlike Isaiah Bradley, who, as you says, was “a Black super soldier,” Sam is just a…

Nobody does. Hadn’t his award been the the last one of the evening for some reason, nobody would have noticed and the show would have ended with a big finish of the Best Picture crew on stage as usual instead of teetering out without even a speech.

This seems classy by Hopkins. The man is 83 and America is still a fucked-up place in a pandemic and he didn’t think he’d win. I have no problems with him not being there.

Not to be outdone, Jim Steinman’s body was carried through the city on a Chuck Berry Red Cadillac with chrome angel wings, escorted by a 100-person choir in spiked leather gear. It was then rocketed into the sun.

I have to say, I’m surprised that this whole thing actually amounted to something besides mere... Joshing around. 

I’m not a DMX fan but that does seem appropriate. Larger than life people should be larger than death, too.

Not long ago I was in the fitting room at a vintage clothing shop, and got to hear the two young Gen Z staffers discuss the song on the PA, Paradise By The Dashboard Light.

Pretty sure she’s not the kind of person you can easily hide in plain sight.

In my personal experience, adults who are extremely into Disney and regularly travel there without children are, without fail, fucking weirdos (present company excluded, of course).

Sam’s speech was a big swing but when he said “The only power I have is that I believe we can do better.” I found myself doing a big, unironic, corny head-nod.

The music video for that song is Michael Bay’s finest work. And yes, I will die on this hill.

Streets of Fire has that title because it was originally supposed to end with the Springsteen song. But then the studio told Walter Hill “Um, it turns out we kind of forgot to actually get the rights to the song.” So Steinman wrote the song that actually ends the movie in just 48 hours.

Good lord. I was, as they say, today years old when I found out that Jim “Total Eclipse of the Heart” Steinman co-produced Floodland.  More things in heaven and earth.

Surely Floodland deserves a mention here! The whole album is an experience, and “This Corrison” is still a banger. (And what I wake up to every morning.)

Such a big scope in artists when you factor in The Sisters of Mercy. RIP

Dead Ringer For Love is one of my absolute favourite songs, and his work with The Sister of Mercy was frequently great, too. Sad news.

Being an idiot should not be a death sentence.