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In the marketing they say it is less Sesame, more Street . And Sesame Street is suing them over it.

Coming in August.

I won't go to a theater...

I know we like to complain about remakes, but I was wondering what movies people think perhaps deserve a remake. Either because the original had the...

Good God, go see this movie. Do it now.

It was every bit as good as the first one and the first one was fantastic.

Flick got pretty good reviews a ode to british horror of the 50's lies like that. This from Rotton Tomatoes is typical:
Ghost Stories offers a...

It Was a Very Good Year
Mark Steyn

History of the song.

Mark Steyn at his best ( meaning writing about what he knows and not channeling Limbaugh...

New York (AFP) - Ronan Farrow is the whiz kid prodigy whose vaunted investigative reporting helped birth America's #MeToo sexual harassment...

1. On Big Bang Theory, now in Season 9, why haven't they fixed the fucking elevator? I ask because Kaley Cuoco's ass doesn't have too many more...

Felt like rambling about one of my favorite songs, Desert Moon by Dennis Deyoung. Not because it's necessarily a musical masterpiece but it has a lot...

I liked Avengers despite not really expecting to. But not because of the plot. It was really a standard issue big dumb summer block buster movie....

Haven't seen it. Will probably never see it. But the ratings are bullshit.

>16000 people have rated it and it doesn't even come out until...

It was all downhill from here.

No matter what they say, this is not a comedy. It is really and truely horrible and not in a good Plan 9 way.

Here, I suggest you stock up on...

Anyone else watching this?

It's pretty fucking good.

Is Shelby an English name or an Irish name? I would think English, but I can't be sure.

Austrian paediatrician Asperger 'actively cooperated' with Nazis: study
The Local (Austria)

Austrian paediatrician Hans Asperger, after whom...

The episode of he Danny Thomas show where he gets stopped by some cracker sheriff while driving from Florida to New York.

Not the whole continuity,...

Interesting flick. Chicks as Rambos or Rambettes maybe.

Initial premise: something has landed and set up a flickering perimeter that is growing in...

Sometimes we need a nostalgia check.

This showed up in my Netflix queue last night. I think Son3 added it but it wasn't in 'recently watched' so I...

Anybody see it?

I really crave a good ghost story.

8)

I liked it but not as much as I thought I would. Lots of great action and characters, but a lot of things straight out of the cliche factory.

At one...

New Ricky Gervais stand-up comedy special on Netflix. :lol:

Best one I've seen in at least about a year. Chris Rock and Dave Chapelle had decent...

For stuff that's worth a read.

I'll start.

The White Darkness

At an East German nudist camp. 8)

I binged the entire season this weekend.

It has a similar darkness to it as Daredevil did, but was even better.

A Marvel adaptation with anal sex....

Recommended to me by Gram's Me Mum--after reminding Anax that she will not dress up as Sailor Moon and will not accept funny money --unlike True...

:notsure:

Anyone else watching the new Tick series on Amazon? It's funny as hell. I honestly recommend it. The guy that plays The Tick is giving him sort of an...

Happy to announce that Amazon Studios is adapting Iain M. Banks’ amazing Culture series — a huge personal favorite — as a TV series. Can’t wait!

I...

Enjoyed it, don't see what all the fuss is about.

What?

Nothing involving weird japanese people please!!!

OK, here is one I thought of the other day.

The Collectors

It is about a very advanced race...

Ones that make you genuinely laugh out loud.

I'll begin with Porno , Irvine Welsh's sequel to Trainspotting , (which is pretty damned amusing in its...

I've started watching Black Lightning , and apparently the main villain happens to be an albino. Named Tobias Whale, I guess that's how he was...

Apparently, on Sunday JJ Abrams dropped the third Cloverfield movie straight onto Netflix, entirely by surprise. Kind of a neat stunt but it couldn't...

But don't tell him I said he wasn't cool.

Apparently he caused the death of literally 11% of the world's population in military conquests, resulting...

I finally got around to seeing it last night at the cheap theater. It was an excellent movie, surprised it didn't do better at the box office....

Caught it on Netflix. Anyone else seen it?

My comments:

It was interesting--I especially liked the beginning where it blended typical orc and elf...

Very well done:

A chick Dr.

:BlowChunks:

Done, over and finished.

Jesus christ. A chick. OhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygod

Not...

:D

@HaggardHawks

MOXIE, meaning ‘courage’ or ‘spirit’, derives from the name of the Moxie soft drinks company, founded in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the...

It's garbage, don't bother. A fucking love story about two fucking antisocial Emo kids. Sorry, not interested.

Actually contains rock and roll in the lyric but not rock and roll just yet.

#1 on the rhythm and blues chart.

I'll be adding to the collection...

Are they all as trite and boring as the trailers?

Damn. Trailer gives me chills.

or both?

Going Places is an upcoming American crime comedy film written, directed by, and starring John Turturro, acting as both a remake of the...

Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship of the Ring (Consisting of Frodo, Gandalf, Thorin, Legolas, and Aragorn) go on a quest to destroy the Ring of Power...

I love it! :coolspecs:

... Like Hitler, Jeanneret wanted to be an artist, and, as with Hitler, the world would have been a better place if he...

Covering yes, but sure as Hell not totally copying . :coolspecs:

Another Mark Steyn history of a song.

Blueberry Hill

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Which brings us to...

Interactive data viz! :hyper:

Surprised I had not seen this before.

--J.D.