Yearly Archives - 2023

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Cleopatra: Is the General Quality of Our Ignorance Improving?

REPOST: 4/20/23WOW, this post has aged badly! Okay, in case you haven't heard about it, Jada Pinkett-Smith has a documentary on Netflix about African queens. There was one queen that apparently was nowhere near African enough for Jada's taste. The cope from lefty academics has been hilarious. "There have been unresolved questions over her race for centuries." I remember when it started and I am not centuries old no matter what my kids say. It dates...

Surprise! Surprise! Alec Baldwin is Having All Charges Dropped Against Him

Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwieshas stepped aside and appointed a pair of special prosecutors — veteran New Mexico attorneys Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis — to take over the high-profile case.“My responsibility to the people of the First Judicial District is greater than any one case, which is why I have chosen to appoint a special prosecutor in the Rust case,” Carmack-Altwies said in a statement today. “Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis will unflinchingly pursue justice in the death of Halyna Hutchins on behalf...

The Dark Herald Recommends: The Mandalorian Season 3

This may be the last season of The Mandalorian. The season finale could certainly function as a series finale as well.  Honestly, I hope they call it a day.  It certainly can’t come back from this incredibly weak season. And the ratings for the first three episodes can’t justify a renewal for a fourth season given the expense of producing a Star Wars show.  There is absolutely no Return of Luke scene this year. At the end of the day if you are a streaming...

The Hermione Question

UPDATE: And Emma Watson just thanked the planet Saturn for changing her life. W-w-what do I even say to this? 'Want one, Granger?’ said Malfoy, holding out a badge to Hermione. ‘I’ve got loads. But don’t touch my hand, now. I’ve just washed it, you see, don’t want a Mudblood sliming it up.’While I admit to enjoying the shrieks of outrage when the new Harry Potter series was announced, (because Rowling will be directly connected with it), there is now...

Jonathon Majors Has Been Dropped by His Management

Management 360 has dropped Jonathon Majors. This is pretty bad news for him. However, at the time of this writing, his Agency WME (William Morris/Endeavor) is still repping him.For the benefit of those who aren't familiar with the difference.A talent agency is supposed to go out and find work for the actor/actress/writer/whatever. The agents represent them to the studios trying to land them parts or if the talent is red hot and being pummeled by offers, sort through the best...

The Prisoner Under A Glass: (Part One – Danger Man)

I will not be pushed. Filed. Stamped. Indexed. Briefed, debriefed, or numbered!-The PrisonerTV shows simply do not affect intellectual development.  It just isn’t possible unless you are under the age of two and the pretty colors you are seeing are doing something rapid growth of your recently generated neural network.  TV shows in all brutal honesty are mostly for retards.  They are designed that way because they have to appeal to the lowest common dominator. Especially in the 1960s when you had to...

Ooof… Guardians of Galaxy 3 May Be in Trouble

The initial projections are very weak.The Trades are predicting $130 million opening weekend. Usually the Trades (Variety, Deadline and the rest) will put their thumb on the scale for an opening weekend because that is what a studio wants to see. This means that either the trades think $130 million is the most sunny and optimistic projection they can come up with and maintain their reputations. OR they think that it will earn about that and they...

Aliens – Footnotes

Typical Marine Corps first date.This post is a collection of extraneous minutia that I cut from the first post.One of the Aliens strengths is the design aesthetic. James Cameron started out in the special effects side of things building spaceship models for Battle Beyond the Stars and getting ripped off by Roger Corman for doing it. Corman can spot talent, you have to give him that.This background as kit-smasher has had a profound impact on the visuals in all of...

RE:View – Aliens

Aliens is my favorite Eighties blast-flick, even nudging out Predator.  For whatever reason, this is the one that speaks to me.What James Cameron got right was basically everything. It was massively influential in 1980s science fiction pop-culture. Aliens created an entire aesthetic template for the Space Marine that everyone who followed Cameron had to either consciously accept or reject. The Colonial Marines were up there with Starfleet. And Aliens set up a film that would hold the title of “most disappointing...