Greg Sestero’s now reasonably famous book The Disaster Artist, co-written by Tom Bissell, is much better than Producer/Director/Star James Franco’s quite famous movie The Disaster Artist, each telling the story of the making of Tommy Wiseau’s all-conquering cult classic, The Room. Book beats film! Book beats film! Book beats film! Well, not necessarily, but the…
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War for the Planet of the Apes: Silence is golden, so it would seem
Back in the day, I used to work as a contractor with the National Commission for Education Statistics. Whenever we put out a report, we agonized, not over data, but over pictures. We have to send the right message here! We need Hispanic kids and black kids! The black boy is looking down the microscope?…
Baby Driver: Jon Hamm doesn’t know Shakespeare
Actually, that should read “Edgar Wright, writer/director of Baby Driver, doesn’t know Shakespeare”, but Big Jon said it in the picture, and who knows Edgar Wright, amirite? But it’s all Edgar’s fault that poor Jon (aka “Buddy”) is stuck with the line “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?” when it should be “Romeo! Romeo! Wherefore…
Damn you, Rotten Tomatoes!
Yes, damn you, Rotten Tomatoes! Damn you and your damn “Squish-o-meter” algorithm or whatever it is you used to assign the new Baywatch a miserable 20% rating, thus making it impossible for me to look at myself in the mirror with a straight face and go off in search of some agreeable retro soft-core raunch….
Woody Allen, last seen in search of lost innocence, and rich wood paneling!
https://youtu.be/FGRNkrvh1Dg I haven’t read USA Today since, well, since never, but if I had I’m sure I would have seen an article headed “We Like Wood” because we do. I first noticed America’s wood fetish while watching one of my favorite TV shows, Monk, in which I noticed a common theme—no matter what the crime,…