Are We Really Doing This Again?

Funny how no one famous ever leaves a political party after years of propaganda and says, “Now it’s time for me to shut up and listen.”

This week I'm going with with sorceress of trivial magic

Every time I see some writer proudly say they use AI, I feel like Veronica Cartwright watching Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, when he opens his mouth and lets out the unearthly shriek that reveals he, too, has become a pod person

I asked Norman Rockwell's granddaughter, Daisy Rockwell, about this use of her grandfather's work. She writes: "It goes without saying that they have completely misunderstood the meaning of the painting, which is tolerance for others and peaceful coexistence."

Lovely summer solstice sunset in Vancouver, photographed at 10:10pm

This Wednesday, I’ll be releasing an episode on Christmas Carol Hot Takes: Negative reviews of popular versions and positive reviews of unpopular ones. Hope you’ll check it out!

Who’s your favorite movie dad?

Who's your favourite movie dad? This scene makes me cry every time

Still better than The Beach Boys’ version

The 1989 presented in When Harry Met Sally makes me so nostalgic for being 14 and imagining my life as a grownup. It’s exactly what I thought my adulthood would be: wearing tweed blazers over thin sweaters and jeans, hanging out Manhattan bookstores and restaurants, being friends with Princess Leia.

Muppet Maltese Falcon

A Muppets' Midsummer Night's Dream

Great analysis of The Horse and His Boy from @gabydiazortiz.bsky.social here. Check out her other Narnia videos as well!

They’re fingernails. He’s eating them.

My grandmother's family surname was Cooperstock, and I like to imagine this was the majority of their work in the old country

trick question, as it's correctly measured by the brimful youtu.be/lM7H0ooV_o8?...

I'm in this! And I only embarrassed myself a little!

It's the first game of The Order of Things Tournament of Champions, where contestants compete for bragging rights and a trophy. See which player can put the lists in order and move on to the finals!

The movie Etan Cohen and Joel Cohen would make together

Probably the worst part of the Great Depression was the day your clothes were repossessed by the bank and you had to stumble naked to the local cooper to be fitted for a barrel.

Jay Leno was making Lewinski jokes nearly 20 years later like it was still 1998. Like Larry King, for years, if a movie required a scene of a character watching a late night show, it was always Jay I’ll Do Anything Leno.

Somehow both in the Taking of Pelham 123 heist crew and one of the transit cops

Good to see Ignatius J. Reilly is keeping himself busy.

Well his last scheme of trying to sell Billy Bob Thornton on his dry cleaning businesses didn’t end well

Your uncle who always says “I love that movie Starman with Jeff Daniels” will finally be vindicated after 40 years.

The thing about Hilary Clinton is she DID face misogyny and unfair characterization because of her husband and she is very smart - AND ALSO, she is a big piece of shit.

western history:

I expect Jay to attempt a hostile takeover of his show within a month.

“Same stuff in Bruce Springsteen’s bag but blander and whiter”

It was supposed to be a twist ending like Remember Me, but you just spoiled it.

It’s funny how John Wayne fans say “We need men like that again,” while every classic John Wayne film ends with “This man is a dinosaur. Seriously let him die. There’s no place in society for him. God is he dead yet?”

Coming soon: The Order of Things Tournament of Champions. See if our champs can match the Disney parental guide to the movie! If you would like to be a contestant on a future episode, send me a DM!

I'm done. These are Nazis and they're saluting the Nazi regime, and if you think otherwise you're also a Nazi. Just absolutely done with this.

He looks like if Cookie Monster made a wish to be human on a cursed Zoltar machine.

Crash (1996, d. David Cronenberg)

my man looking like the baby from the Teletubby sun grew up to be an alcoholic

Quantum Leaping back into Paul Simms body in 1995 and giving Ray Romano a few episodes to find his footing with the rest the NewsRadio cast.

hope it's okay for me to share on this platform but @barrycrain.bsky.social's cancer is back, with no options left. the least we can do to help out him and his family is to send them heaps of money to cover end-of-life care and/or share this with others.

The kind of news we need today

Cars: The Exorcist hits theaters December 2027.

My usual spot in the park by the waterfall has been taken over by goth prom kids getting photos taken. Goth Prom Kids at the Waterfall is the best song from Fall Out Boy's third album.

ok but who will be the first human trillionaire?

I will not rest until it is illegal to make movies that do nothing more than exactly replicate performances or events that are documented with hours and hours of existing video footage.

The three genders (nonbuynary)

Did they re-use a Charlie Bucket’s mom animatronic from a defunct Willy Wonka ride?

INCREDIBLE title

They hybridized Norman Jewison and Chaim Topol

What did they do to Wolf Blitzer?