“I’m gonna put a thousand Paddy McAloon songs in your pocket.”

Third Eye Blind‘s “Jumper” given an uncanny vibrato by Home Depot’s busted speaker system

I really liked this movie a lot

I had such a fun time talking about this ridiculous and occasionally quite good movie with the @boxofficegross.bsky.social crew. Give it a listen!

Pal and BOG associate producer Shaun Swayne hitting the group chat with invaluable research

love to read articles online

Remember when the MCU/Sony take on J. Jonah Jameson was “same actor but now he’s Alex Jones”

Somehow, Superman returned

“Dunson” is what people called my dad because he loved John Wayne and in particular Red River so much. If you know the movie you know how loaded and weird it is for someone’s son to honor his dead dad’s legacy by calling himself Dunson. Happy Father’s Day

if inventions did not exist, it would be necessary to figure out some way of addressing that

watching a movie. shout out to movies

Very happy to finally be able to watch the work of Stanley Kubrick

a failure on I don't know whose part that I'm only just now becoming aware of a feature film from the director of Joe Pera Talks With You

Sean Fennessey drive-by lol

really fun episode that made me say "wow that's literally me" numerous times during the early bits of the conversation and also made me really want to play Live A Live

this is inaccurate

best thing about James Carrey is he won't half-ass it with a mo-cap Grinch. he WILL put on the makeup again that requires the training of a CIA interrogator to withstand. that said, if my faith in Jim is tested and it does turn out to be CG Grinch, I'll at least know it's finally over for him

this is probably because of the @bilgeebiri.bsky.social oral history putting some overdue respect on this banger

Whether a movie is good or bad should be the beginning not the end of any conversation about it. It's also the least interesting question to ask about a movie.

Nope and Disclosure Day both hinge on the captured image of extraterrestrials—one about how you should not look into the eyes of the Other, one about how you should. Good. I like this

going to be thinking for a long time about Spielberg following up an epic about the twisted origins of his film brain with a paranoid thriller where a main character's emotional breakthrough requires a Nathan Fielder style recreation of her childhood home

Narduwar? Sorry, Nardwuar?? Why does he look like that. Don't actually answer that I do get it I just don't wanna see it and probably don't wanna hear it

Taika Waititi is the missing link I forgot about when pondering on how Jared Hess was able to make the leap to blockbuster filmmaking

viewers of the Taika Waititi film with Jenna Ortega as a robot are about to encounter levels of annoying hitherto unimaginable

really hate that Undeclared episode with Adam Sandler. So contrary to the vibe you want to get from Sandler, I think intentionally but counter-intuitively. An unlikable warm-up for Funny People, which I haven't seen recently enough to say with confidence is good or not.

so annoying that I historically love games that involve traversing lonely decaying environments but I'm too much of a coward and noob to get into the From Software games. maybe someday

I really think Adam Sandler is one of my movie stars of my lifetime because it truly does not matter whether the movie is good or not, his films so so often defy categorical dogmatism. some of our other greats--e.g. Tom Cruise--can't claim this. Sandler though...and Will Smith, and James Carrey

the people who write shit like this should [redacted] and maybe even [redacted]

are you fucking kidding me?

it's so fucked up that during one of the best moments in Disclosure Day I kept thinking about this

there's a moment in Click (2006) where Sandler, wearing pajamas and a robe, rides a child's bike with training wheels across the Brooklyn Bridge while "Someday" by The Strokes plays. mandated spontaneity, to prevent his life simply floating away from him. don't really have thoughts. just saying it.

this was apparently a multi-cam sitcom but this promotional art + being on FX makes it look more like it would've been something like The Ri¢hes where you think it's going to be funny because funny people are in it but actually it's the most depressing shit you've ever seen (the 00s FX specialty)

Getting choked up on my commute listening to “Prison Song” by System of a Down and “Sister” by Sufjan Stevens something might be up. Something emotionally with me might be up

Nope and Disclosure Day both hinge on the captured image of extraterrestrials—one about how you should not look into the eyes of the Other, one about how you should. Good. I like this

Anthrocon (the enormous furry convention they do here in Pittsburgh) is Fourth of July weekend this year lol. Downtown is gonna be insane

Name a tv show you’re positive no one remembers but you David Morse is the titular Dave but is NOT the star lol

Cisgender transphobes are wild because they will say shit like "IF YOU REALLY ARE THE SAME GENDER AS ME THEN WHY AREN'T YOU MISERABLE LIKE I AM?!" and walk further from connecting the dots

The PA system ding just went out over the Dollar Tree. A single word emanated briefly from the speakers, the solitary cashier unemotionally, quietly saying “Help.”

My pitch for Austin Powers 4 is that he was frozen again in 2002 and unthawed in 2026, and now he's a fish out of water all over again. Him learning about Onlyfans. "The U.S. will always be the sole remaining superpower, baby!!!" Stuff like that.

a bit of off-the-dome bonus #content for Box Office GROSS listeners. I watch an absurdly short wrestling match Brian shouted out in our Nacho Libre episode and then read some of the YouTube comments

the newest Odyssey trailer (saw it before Disclosure Day) is so remarkably juiceless. this thing better have some serious Cool Fantasy Shit hidden from the trailers because I'm over all the orange rooms with a bunch of guys standing around in them being grouchy

my face when someone tells me "Christopher Nolan REFUSES to use 'CGI'"

TEMPEST ATARI 1981 (Captured at Galloping Ghost Arcade, Brookfield, IL, USA)

No idea what you are talking about. 🤷‍♀️

Just got a breakfast sandwich made out of waffles and then said “do you have a side waffle?” And the lady looked at me like I was insane