Movies are supposed to be good.
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…
Jennifer Love Hewitt was an absolutely fine comic actress, y’all were just mean.
There’s a lot at work around the news of the Academy nominations for the 2024 ceremony, so I thought I’d take a moment to look at them. But first: Let’s acknowledge that as an AMAB who has spent around 40 years of his life presenting as a cisgendered white dude, I’m not exactly the person…
We had fallen into a habit where music was either the background hum of our day-to-day lives, or just a little reward for doing the things we all have to do. You either put on some music in the background while you’re working, cooking, driving — or you put it on while running those chores to help encourage you to actually do them.