I mean, to be fair that’s fun as hell but I’m pretty sure one of the best movies ever made got spoiled for an entire generation of millennials just for the sake of making a clever reference.

CITIZEN KANE was spoiled by an episode of THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS where “Charles Foster Hearse” was haunting Xanadu and couldn’t rest in peace until Winston found Rosebud.

To be clear, my AS THE WORLD TURNS would be a soft reboot. The first
13,858 episodes definitely happened but my show would be a jumping on point, so you wouldn’t have to watch them all first.

(Which is probably for the best since it’d take 574 1/2 days for you to catch up — if you never slept.)

I’d reboot the fuck out of AS THE WORLD TURNS.

If you’re unwilling or unable to address the totality of an artist’s life, your biopic is going to have problems. Maybe they’re surmountable, maybe not. But it’s still a problem and in the case of MICHAEL, at least as it stands right now, on its own, it leaves a giant crater where context should be.

You have to review the film you saw, not a film that might have been, or a film you might see someday. And the film I saw was shallow hero worship. That may be par for the course for music biopics, but I put it to you A. maybe it shouldn’t, because B. not all artists have the exact same story.

Allegedly the allegations were addressed in an earlier version, before the major reshoots. We don’t get to see that version, so this is what we have to discuss instead.

On that same note, there may be a follow-up, but we can’t reconsider MICHAEL in that context until that context actually exists.

‘Michael’ Review: Frustrating Michael Jackson Biopic Makes You Want to Scream Jaafar Jackson eerily embodies his real-life uncle in a film that remembers the time, but doesn’t look at the man in the mirror

Antoine Fuqua’s MICHAEL exists in an alternate reality where nothing happened to Michael Jackson after 1988 (and Janet Jackson never existed).

The lack of ANY context makes this more vapid and insulting than a lot of other biopics, but Jaafar Jackson is good in it.

My review is at @thewrap.com.

Jimmy Olsen vs. Steve Lombard

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A friendly reminder that I do have a merch shop now 🖤

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NBC Promo- The Bionic Showdown (1989) YouTube video by WRFB79

New commercial for AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

youtu.be/GJzsfly6pRQ

Seconding everyone’s recommendation of SMILEY FACE.

I’d also recommend FOR A GOOD TIME CALL… which I still think is one of the best comedies of the 2010s.

There are a LOT of pot brownies in DICK (1999), which is also a classic.

I haven’t seen PARTY GIRL since the 1990s but I *think* it counts?

I think about the above excerpt from James Thurber every time I see pictures of cats on the internet who have, allegedly, been bad cats.

Maybe they are, indeed, bad cats, but be honest: Deep down you're just bragging, to anyone who will listen, that you have cats.

I don't blame you. (Lucky you!)

James Thurber's charming, cartoony black-and-white drawing of a house with quite a lot of cats. There's a cats on the mantel, knocking over a vase and preparing to knock over a vase, respectively. There's a cat hanging from a picture frame. There's a cat skulking inside a fireplace. It's quite a lot of cats, if we're being honest.

Q. We have cats the way most people have mice. – Mrs C.L Footloose.

A. I see you have. I can’t tell from your communication, however, whether you wish advice or are just boasting.

(From: A THURBER CARNIVAL, by James Thurber, 1945)

Disney made the movie Frozen so when you googled "Walt Disney frozen", it would show results for the movie instead of the urban legend that Walt Disney cryogenically froze his head

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

would also love to hear from teachers!!

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

My point isn’t what they should have misquoted him. My point is “director gives hyperbolic praise to the movie he’s currently promoting, so there’s no way he would have said anything else and the statement is therefore fundamentally untrustworthy” isn’t worthy of a headline.

We are SO back.

Woohoo!!! Congratulations!!!

This headline would be a million times more clickable if Joe Russo said Doctor Doom is “the fourth or fifth greatest Marvel villain of all time.”

Like, “Yeah, he’s no Thanos or Killmonger or Loki, but he’s neck and neck with Wenwu and ehhhhhh… Hela?”

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

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You just *know* that someone behind the scenes of PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 was fighting, tooth and nail, to call it IMPRACTICAL MAGIC.

If that person is reading this, just know that you tried and I respect you for it, and you were right, that would have been a better title.

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Lynne Thigpen as "The Chief" from Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego

Lock the fuck in, Gumshoes. Carmen Sandiego stole a priceless wax pressing of "One of These Nights" by the Eagles. You've got to stop her before she travels back in time to 149 BC Carthage and trades it to Scipio Africanus the Younger for a kilo of the good shit.
*Rockapella bops on stage*

“Don’t you see? All of the victims died the same way, and in the same order, as FRED HEMBECK DESTROYS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE!!”

i know this has a billion reposts but i'm still looking - haven't gotten any substantial leads from this. so please let me know if you hear anything

The first one ends with an epic yo-yo shotgun shootout and the best chainsaw duel ever filmed. The first 90% isn’t very good but damn, what a climax.

I’d add that this is also evidence of just how mentally and morally cooked the tech oligarchy is. They used to know this was “inside voice” stuff. Now it’s meant to be the organizing principles of society.