Any time I hear that a filmmaker has gotten “unprecedented access” or that the film is “authorized” I know it won’t be insightful or offer anything compelling. Because it’s just brand building, and won’t engage in anything probative, beyond that the subject was a genius who was ahead of their time.

I watched the Henson bio last night and moderately challenge its characterization here as a puff piece; the children were pretty open about him being a shit dad when he was trying to get The Muppet Show off the ground. Admittedly they don’t dwell on it, but it’s the sort of thing that could’ve been easily left out.

That sounds like the last scene in Saltburn.

Bill Paxton also got an early role in this as a comic-relief bartender. I unironically love this movie. Much like Hill’s earlier film The Warriors, it’s set in a world that looks superficially like the real world, but clearly had a different history than our own, and has a culture that is a mixture of elements from…

Pretty sure dudes have been fighting over Diane Lane since The Fabulous Stains.

Tonight is What it Means to be Young is actually so awesome that it literally saved the entire movie. The studio execs were very underwhelmed with the footage they were seeing and were on the verge of scrapping the whole thing, but then Steinman delivered that song and they loved it so much that they let the movie be…

Em’s been trying to offend people and then complaining about people trying to silence him for his entire career, especially in his Slim Shady persona which this is explicitly a return to / culmination of. Actually being shocked by any of it is just playing into his hands.

LOL, we all gonna cringe.

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

I saw her stand-up in DC a couple years ago - unhinged, sweet, nerdy, hilarious, like watching a stoned but still articulate squirrel run around for an hour. 

Never could stand him. Can’t stand the sound of his voice and I find him as a person kind of shit. Now that last part applies to any number of musicians and rappers but I’ve just never liked him. He’s annoying and always thought he was more clever than he actually was.

I like the video for the most part, but somebody in his inner circle, PLEASE stop him from going back to these terrible punchlines. The interpolation choruses too. The whole throwback angle doesn’t work when he keeps going back to the well that made him fall off in the first place.

he still holds a lot of cachet with creaky edgelords who conflate speed with skill when it comes to rap

Eminem has been shit for way longer than he has been great. He had a stellar run of albums in the late 90s and early 2000s. And now he continues to dump on his legacy with every new release. This has nothing to do with his politics, it’s just obvious that he’s tired and has nothing to say anymore.

Em is overrated and been washed. And this song is hot trash 

Same, I’m not sure I can watch this.  I’m a filmmaker, primarily non-fiction, and I’ve completed many projects, but none that have made a big splash or played at film festivals.  And I’ve got a few that I didn’t finish.  I turned forty and boy I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting....

Same, man...same.

Man, I feel like this is going to hit too close. I’m his age, started in a creative field, sold out when dot-com boomed, got stuck in that world before I knew what was happening, but last year turned back to the creative thing I thought I was gonna be doing just to see if I could still do it. The answer, which I also…

“Kooler than Jesus” for sure.

If you went to a certain kind of dance club between like 1987 and 1995, their stuff was inescapable. Their WaxTrax-era material off “Confessions of a Knife” and “SexPlosion!” were club staples of the era.