On Twitter, I asked Justin Simien if casting Obba Babatunde as the dean was a deliberate reference to his role in How High as Dean Cain, because that's a wonderful inside baseball casting choice. He did not respond.

*has to look up pitch deck, feels old, no it's the children who are wrong*

See: George Lucas.

AV Q&A: What's the most money you've spent on something that sucked or was a scam?

Two questions, one for clarity:

And that sounds like a way better movie, rather than another Net/Antitrust/Social Network-y riff on how modern technology has a dark side, maaaaan.

Daniel Craig flat out said in one interview that the franchise reboot was because Austin Powers made it impossible to do the sex-punny Bond movies any more.

Billy Eichner had a great tweet that said "sure, we all love Beyoncé now, but where were you when she really needed you?" and it was posters of Goldmember and The Pink Panther.

That really hurt! Who throws a shoe?

I love Hamlet 2, and I have no idea why Universal thought an extremely specific parody of inspirational teacher movies/high school theater, whose biggest stars were Catherine Keener and Elisabeth Shue, was going to be a crossover hit.

Dude made movies in three separate decades that I would be comfortable placing in the top 10-20 movies of those decades (Stop Making Sense, Silence of the Lambs, Rachel Getting Married). Most directors would kill for that kind of quality.

Gaga has three songs that are explicitly about masturbating (Glitter and Grease, So Happy I Could Die, Dancin' In Circles).

BUT IF YOU WILLFULLY MISREAD THESE COURT DOCUMENTS AND DON'T UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITIES OF ASSAULT VICTIMS REPORTING THEIR ABUSERS, SHE TOTALLY DENIED HE EVER ASSAULTED HER THAT ONE TIME YOU GUISE

It's yet another opportunity for us to rehash the 2016 Dem race, and people to prove how woke and/or pure Democrat and/or far left they are, or say "why do you care about this when (insert latest horrible Trump thing) is happening?"

Someone in my office brought up Kim Davis today. That was less than two years ago. LESS THAN TWO YEARS AGO.

Disney and Pixar: giving you dozens of unnecessary sequels to movies you didn't want, while withholding the most obviously fruitful sequels that you do.

I'm going to be forever pedantic about The Lion King not being a live-action movie. Like the people still beating the "zombies don't run" drum.

My favorite thing was when Wendy's used the actual Wendy for about two ads, and then immediately switched to a hot redhead, because real Wendy was Hollywood Ugly. This plays with that.

80s BILLY JOEL DOO-WOP SUCKS!

I live in Kansas City. So far, the only artist to come out and talk about how great it was to be in Kansas was Macklemore, and he got heartily booed.