“Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” appears in a six-second cutaway in 30 Rock episode 2×02 “Jack Gets in the Game”. While the show itself features only two lines, an entire three-minute version of the song was written and recorded – with the vocals supplied … Continue reading Werewolf Bar Mitzvah Night Thread
“They’re coming to get you, Barbra!” 50 years ago today, on October 1st, 1968, George A Romero’s seminal horror classic Night of the Living Dead became patient zero for the modern zombie genre. Made with unknown actors and on a shoestring … Continue reading NIGHT of the Living THREAD
Minnie (short for Minerva) showed up in our front lawn about two and a half years ago as a tiny kitten not much larger than my foot. After getting her fixed and inoculated at the vet, we took her into … Continue reading The Day Thread of Minnie’s Bonelessness
The Box is locked. The lights are on. It’s ROBOT-FIGHTIN’ TIME! The robot combat event/TV show known as BattleBots started its life in the midst of legal wreckage, when a deal to make a US spinoff of the UK series Robot … Continue reading The BattleBots Day Thread
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (From Box Office Mojo): Crazy Rich Asians The Meg Mile 22 Mission: Impossible – Fallout Alpha Crazy Rich Asians became the latest minority-led film to ‘over-perform’ (at this point we should probably instead frame it as … Continue reading Box Office: August 17-19
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (From Box Office Mojo): The Meg Mission: Impossible – Fallout Christopher Robin Slender Man BlacKkKlansman Turns out the people still love shark movies, as The Meg beat expectations to collect $40M this weekend. With an outsize-for-August budget of … Continue reading Box Office: August 10-12, 2018
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to discuss the twisty-turny two and a half hour marathon that is the sixth Mission: Impossible movie. Could you keep track of all the double crosses? Should the franchise retire ‘motorcycles’ … Continue reading Mission: Impossible – Fallout Spoil Sports
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (From Box Office Mojo): Incredibles 2 Ocean’s 8 Tag Solo: A Star Wars Story Deadpool 2 With $182.6M, Incredibles 2 exceeded all expectations, opening not like a long-awaited animated sequel (cf. previous animated opening weekend champ … Continue reading Box Office: June 15-17, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo): Ocean’s 8 Solo: A Star Wars Story Deadpool 2 Hereditary Avengers: Infinity War With $41.5M, Ocean’s 8 made a little bit more this weekend than each of its main characters do, which … Continue reading Box Office: June 8 – 10, 2018
ACTION SCENES Danger has stalked your characters, and now it’s ready to pounce. A hurricane bears down on their damaged boat. The loan shark’s enforcers knock down the apartment door. A Sumerian god of death has taken his true form … Continue reading The Process: Action Scenes
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