Oh word, "modern situations that were unknown or unanticipated," like maybe high-capacity magazines and automatic weapons? Is that the kind of new exception you're talking about?

This is pretty close, but I'm not sure if the original was still playing in first-run at the time of the new version's release.

Ehhhhh, not really by my reckoning. Not actually additional content in the movie. It would be like asking if a dubbed version is different from a subtitled version (yes, but not in *this* sense).

Trying to think of another example of what A24 is doing with BACKROOMS, releasing a version with additional footage while the original is still in theatrical release. I recall A BUG'S LIFE adding new closing credits "outtakes" a few weeks into release. Am I missing something else obvious?

"Weird Al" Yankovic has always been a real one. Just learned that he very recently turned down "a nice pile of money" to shill for A.I. Damn right he did. @alyankovic.bsky.social www.syracuse.com/entertainmen...

Moroccan roll, baby.

I am drinking a $15 beer I bought in a tent labeled with an ai pizza emoji. It is 103 degrees. The only shade is near the cardboard arch the president built, but it's full of soldiers resting after algae patrols. It is starting to rain. "I owned the libs," I think to myself. "They're so mad."

On a new episode of Mousterpiece Melodies, we’re sailing for adventure! Specifically, @scottrenshaw.bsky.social and I are joined by @jacoboller.bsky.social to discuss the songs of the delightfully loopy Muppet Treasure Island: mousterpiecemelodies.podbean.com/e/mousterpie...

Which pretty much is the same reason I hate Rotten Tomatoes.

GUIDE: Welcome to the Great American State Fair! TOURIST: Incredible! And which state are we in right now? GUIDE: (violently shaking their head) Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

The Russo Brothers are the crown princes of our sore winners era, and I loathe them with a depth that should be reserved for things like war criminals and whomever came up with QR code menus.

Generally speaking, I grant the benefit of the doubt to a Disneyland attraction change before seeing it in person, and without immediately going into “how dare they” mode. But a living pirate in the skeleton grotto? Absofuckinlutely not. Such an insane violation of what makes it a morality play.

I’d watch Brooks & Scorsese in a live-action Statler & Waldorf movie

The five-pointed star of the development of my comedic sensibility: Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Monty Python, ZAZ and Mel Brooks. Happy centennial, Mel.

Kalshi and Polymarket are like Coke and Pepsi: One has a larger market share, each has its fans, but both deliver a momentary rush while being fundamentally bad for you and in fact bad for the world in general.

Things are definitely going well in your state fire-wise when a fireworks company has to send you a pre-Independence Day press release insisting “no, seriously, you can use our product safely!”

Planning a new Letterboxd list called “Fuck Off for Trying to Make Me Sympathize With This Asshole,” starting with: BOMBSHELL HILLBILLY ELEGY REAGAN What else belongs?

Well, I know what they're *not* talking about.

Fuck allllll the way off, turn around, come back, take a slap in the face, then fuck all the way off again.

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

BREAKING: Trump suing White House media who call themselves “pool reporters.”

Ideally, his own bathtub.

Someone forgot to reclaim his Haunted Mansion cast member costume.

New @cityweekly.bsky.social reviews of this week's theatrical reviews: TOY STORY 5; THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD; LEVITICUS. www.cityweekly.net/film/film-re...

“Siri, show me a perfect thread of three posts.”

You can go through the strait free, but it takes 2 days, or you can subscribe to Hormuz Plus.

For the record: You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to James Dolan.

It would appear I’m going to be the TOY STORY 5 outlier.

The one thing I will never understand about high-level soccer is why there aren’t more referees on a field that size.

It’s hard for an American sports fan to understand how fired up a team could be about a tie.

Don’t cry for us, Argentina! It’s time for a new episode of Mousterpiece Melodies, as @scottrenshaw.bsky.social and I are joined by our old friend @gbucsko.bsky.social to discuss the many songs of the 1996 film version of Evita: mousterpiecemelodies.podbean.com/e/mousterpie...

“Drive It Like You Stole It” from SING STREET is the Hall & Oates-est song that was never Hall & Oates’d. youtu.be/fuWTcmjnEGY

You’d think by now Trump would have more respect for the potential negative impact on his life of the word “Stormy.”

When you don’t actually know what the “understanding” part of “memorandum of understanding” means.

My local multiplex was selling tickets to watch the Freedom 250 UFC, wonder how they’re dealing with that.

Watching D.C. weather forecasts like

Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

The Jalen M. Brunson And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts

Thoughts and prayers to all the Knicks fans’ blood pressure.

Haiti’s World Cup team includes players named Providence and Expérience, it’s like a damn PILGRIM’S PROGRESS out there.

Never change AI

What if you’re a really good Brazilian soccer player and you actually *like* having a last name?

I was on a little wayback dive into rec.arts.movies.reviews, and only just learned that r.a.m.r. stalwart Mark Leeper passed away last year. Not a fan of the many different ways mortality can sneak up on you.

BACKROOMS, but instead it’s BATHROOMS and all the chairs in the yellow hallways are toilets, there, I’ve just written a scene for the next SCARY MOVIE.

I have completed the (thankfully not only) season of WIDOW'S BAY. Y'all ain't ready.