“calling in to request the song” lol I got news for you - live radio DJs playing music and taking phone requests hasn’t been a thing for like 15 years. Your local radio DJ playing songs ‘by request’ lives in Omaha and voice tracks 50 different stations and says the song that was already scheduled to play was “by…

Is there really anything all that unusual going on here? Take the political angle out of this and it’s basically just “Harlem Shake” again - a song by a previously unknown artist that goes mega-viral on social media, which translates into chart success because charts work differently now. THAT is the big reason behind…

The thing is, you can launch an astroturfing campaign like this 1,000 times and it will work once, if at all. Right-wing social media is always trying to boost something, and for every Sound of Freedom or Rich Men North of Richmond there’s an endless sea of forgotten Dinesh D’Souza documentaries or whatever that gets…

It is kind of funny that in a year that’s been marked by moviegoers finally rejecting endless franchises like Indiana Jones, Fast & Furious, Jurassic Park, Marvel/DC, etc. the two big mega-hit movies have been... long-running franchises that just hadn’t gotten around to making movies yet.

Having DJ’d at both night clubs and country line dancing bars, I can say that the Cha Cha Slide may be the one thing in the world that truly brings people of all races together.

One day Adam Devine is going to age out of all that plastic surgery and look like the guy from Goo Goo Dolls.

Somewhere along the line the bar for a ‘successful’ movie became making a literal billion dollars

Is this Grail Games scheme even legal? Feels like it would be considered a lottery, which is strictly regulated in the U.S. (I suppose I have no idea if this contest will be based out of the U.S. or not.)

Am I the only one who read this and thought ‘Wow, this is exactly like the parable the prophet Nathan told King David about the rich man taking the poor man’s sheep’?  Yes?  okay.

Will avid consumers of Ben Shapiro content enjoy the Barbie move? No, says Ben Shapiro.

In 2021, every movie and TV show assumed we would want storylines about the pandemic, when in reality we wanted anything but. We’re still filtering through all that stuff - The Simpsons finally aired their ‘lockdown’ episode earlier this year, and it felt positively ancient. The worst offender was Knives Out 2, a…

They also cut you off from traveling to Ginger Island if the festival is in the town or beach.

The #1 lesson that the movie industry has learned in 2023, a year that has seen high-profile flop after high-profile flop, is that they can’t keep spending $200 million on every movie.  We’re going to start seeing these budgets get a lot tighter going forward.  And if you’re looking to cut a $200 million project, a…

I hope the new festival is more like the Night Market (a multi-day fest that happens in ‘real time’) vs. the more typical festivals that always drop you off at 10pm. Mostly because I hate shops being closed and getting locked out of the town.

It’s amazing to go back and watch 2000's-era HBO shows and see how self-contained they were. Nowadays every episode of every show has to end with a ‘holy shit’ moment to hook you into the next episode.  So many HBO shows would end episodes with a quiet, reflective moment right before the credits rolled.

I gotta say, Five Nights at Freddy’s doesn’t seem like a particularly challenging IP to make into a movie. Evil Chuck E. Cheese animatronics terrorize night security guard - kind of a slam dunk for a horror movie premise, if you ask me.  

The price of tickets to just about any live event imaginable are going through the roof thanks to the rise of ‘dynamic pricing’. Basically, to prevent scalpers and bots from buying up all the tickets and re-selling them on the secondary market, companies like Ticketmaster just added an algorithm that... raises the…

Charging $50 for a livestream is way more egregious than charging $300 for a ticket.

Yeesh.  I’d rather have Mike Richards host Wheel of Fortune than Seacrest.

Thanks to this article, I will no longer let suits tell me whether or not a game is important.