Movies are supposed to be good.
Over on BlueSky there’s a running thing of LetterboxdFriday, where people share screenshots every Friday of the last four movies listed on their Letterboxd profile. I love it — and I thought, “Hey, why not expand a little bit on my LetterboxdFriday by putting some notes on the blog?” So here we go! Shake! Otis…
It’s Friday time again, and it’s the day for you to guess the artists and titles from my shuffled music player! Last week’s included a line of lyrics in Japanese, which hardly seems fair from an English-language blog run by someone who is functionally a monoglot, but it was “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” from Creepy Nuts — a…
Every movie has a person out there who will love it as it is — unironically and without reservation. The idea that such a person exists for Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room” (2003) is beautiful and terrible.
September 5 is here, and that means it’s time to put my music player on shuffle and for you guys to guess the artists and titles! As always, the rules: As with last time, you have until next Friday to guess. Then I’ll post the answers, and that’s it! And if you want to see…
2011’s The Muppets was a sentimental tribute to the lasting legacy of The Muppets. On every other single metric — story, comedy, original music, use of guest stars and cameos — 2014’s underappreciated Muppets Most Wanted is far and away the better Muppet movie.
Let’s take another week to set my music player on shuffle and see if you guys can guess the artists and titles! There’s lots of great stuff in the list today, so here are the rules: As with last time, you have until next Friday to guess. Then I’ll post the answers, and that’s it!…
If your movie goes over 150 minutes, you owe your audience a musical production number.
Fun fact: I’ve been blogging since before the social media boom made blogs a seemingly-quaint curiosity, and I’m thrilled to see Gen Z (and last-wave Millennials) turning to blogs as a way to reclaim their internet experience from social media. I got into blogging because of my brother. In those days, he was Thudfactor, and…
Also, for real, Justice for Frankie. The third movie was all set up to be about them and then it never happened. We still need that.
“On Thumbs, Monkeys, and Lettuce” was originally published as part of Jim Bronyaur’s “12 Days 2010” project, featuring stories by 12 authors — each one basing their story on a different gift of the 12 Days of Christmas. Since the website is now defunct and that the Wayback Machine never indexed it, the story is…