Spent a few minutes poking around Netflix’s account activity log, and discovered a couple things. First, we didn’t start binge-watching via Netflix until 2013; our first Official Binge would have been back in the ‘90s, when we bought up local VHS copies of Buffy, followed by BSG on DVD in 2004, and (I think) The Tudors via download in the late 2000s.… Read the rest “”
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A Modest Suggestion
Y’know, if you really wanted to stick it to someone like Bill Cosby, all you’d need to do is make sure that all news articles and think-pieces about him first refer to him as “Bill Cosby (writer/star of *Leonard Part 6*)”.… Read the rest “A Modest Suggestion”
I don’t consider myself a “zombie fan”; I’m into the dystopian post-apocalyptic scenarios that zombies create, rather than the dead themselves. And despite the occasional request I’ve received for Walking Dead fanfic, I’ve never really thought zombies were relevant to this blog.… Read the rest “”
Everybody loves to laugh. Larry David is great. Albert Brooks. Mel Brooks. I like girls that cry.
It’s like the man lives in my brain.
Bill Paxton (1955-2017)
Goddamn motherfucking bullshit. I feel like I’m living through the mass extinction of my childhood.
Everyone my age first noticed Bill Paxton as Chet in Weird Science, but Aliens firmly cemented him in our consciousness. To most people today, he’s probably “that guy from Big Love and Apollo 13.”… Read the rest “Bill Paxton (1955-2017)”
Carrie Fisher (1956-2016) & Debbie Reynolds (1932-2016)
I hope No. 3 and Gary look after each other. That’s a lot to lose in a couple days.
But I have to believe that, if she’s anywhere at all, Carrie is watching how her death has played out and is darkly amused at her mother’s impeccable timing.
funny games (2007)
Naomi Watts is everything. Her intense vulnerability as an actress turns even her most somber, anguished performances into a strange brand of sexual candy; her body of work is a Wonka factory-worth of the stuff, although my favorites are Mulholland Dr.… Read the rest “”
I thought Princess Protection Program was a Disney tween movie. Then Netflix threw up a still-frame of Demi Lovato looking like she’s been on the business end of a bukkake party.
Either Netflix doesn’t understand its audience at all, or… Netflix really understands its audience.
Gone Girl
[SPOILERS for Gone Girl]
Gone Girl was better than I expected, in unexpected ways.
There aren’t enough clear-eyed, female sociopaths in movies or television. We’ve got fuck-tons of crazy bitch characters, certainly, and countless man-eating succubi; in recent years, we even have a growing collection of AARP-eligible she-monsters, out to rip a hole in the world.… Read the rest “Gone Girl”
I watched Into The Woods this weekend, which generated these thoughts:
- Johnny Depp leverages his career investments better than any actor on the planet. Aside from the goings-on at The Viper Room, he spent most of the ’90s as a pretty, vulnerable, quasi-sexual weirdo, building up a massive stockpile of quirky good will, which he now uses to infuse his array of murderous barbers, hateful chocolatiers, drunken pirates, bizarre racial stereotypes, and child predators with what would normally be an incongrous hint of harmless whimsy.