Noted genre actress Shelly Duvall has passed today at the age of seventy five due to complications resulting from diabetes. One of acting’s little secrets is that it is mostly genetics more than anything else. What bag of tricks did fate leave in your cradle as an infant? Was it the emotional vampirism so necessary in driving a practitioner of the craft forward? Was it the ability to lift one eyebrow? Was it that indefinable quality called, ‘the magic’? Was it...
The AcolyteThere’s a number of things I’d rather do than get caught up on The Acolyte but given the interest around it I have little choice. It has managed the impressive feat of stirring up the kind of hatred that hasn’t surrounded a Star Wars project since The Last Jedi. While The Rise of Skywalker was certainly hated that was mostly because of its utter cinematic incompetence. As bad as it was, it was an attempt at course correction. The Last...
I had no idea this was coming when I did my last RE:ViewTaika Waititi's Time Bandits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCA9jpc4R74 Discuss on Social Galactic
#TheDarkHeraldWasRight As I said, “Redstone is hot to sell and Skydance is hot to buy, so this is now just negotiating.”The walking away from the table was just another negotiating ploy. Turns out that Shari Redstone was trying to get to the price she wanted, and she appears to have gotten there. Skydance and Paramount have agreed to a merger. Shari Redstone’s worthless stock will now be turned into something valuable. Namely 8 billion bucks. At the time of their...
My heart! Oh, my poor wounded heart! Kotaku Down Under is no more! Won’t someone please think of the children?If I was a better person, I’d be trying to come up with some kind of emotion tangential to empathy. After all, Kotaku wasn’t always this steaming, radioactive pile. When it first launched this was its mascot, which tells you just about everything it used to be. Brian Crecente was brought in a month after Kotaku launched in 2006 and turned it...
At least not by 1970s TV standards.Here is the first appearance of the Justice League on TV. It was in 1979, Wonder Woman was still in production and Lynda Carter wasn't in this. Lynda Carter felt she was too good to appear in this thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUTCePDSYy8 There is no part II. The guy doing this video gave up.Discuss on Social Galactic
WARNING THE FOLLOWING IS GRAPHICI really didn’t want to write this article but it’s clear that the media has been given orders to protect Neil Gaiman.It’s been so long since I first picked up a Sandman comic book that I honestly don’t remember which story I came in on. Preludes and Nocturnes had wrapped, which I remember because I had to buy the graphic novel. In my youth, I tended to think too highly of artists. I honestly, believed that...
Comedy is tragedy plus time and nothing I can say will make this any funnier.It was either this or piece of Neil Gaiman's sex life.Go enjoy the firework with your family and friends, America was never about musical theater.
"Removing his helmet reveals himself to be none other than Sean Connery or an actor of equal but cheaper stature." This joke, made on a golf course is more or less how got Time Bandits got greenlit. The Joke was made to Sean Connery himself, and he liked it. It was the start of trend for him during the eighties. Highlander, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and a few others. Time Bandits is the most inexplicable kids’ film of all time. Possibly...
The year was 1989. Young Idiot College Student Herald was nosing through The Merchant of Venus when he came upon a shrink-wrapped paperback that was at least twenty years old judging from the acid rock cover art. The title was The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum. I snatched it off the shelf greedily. I had to sacrifice that week's Prizzao fund to buy it. No regrets it's still sitting on my library shelf.In that day and age, luck was...
