The great prophet Jay-Z once said "Grand opening? Grand closing" - a fortune foretold from the Black Album that's now the unofficial motto of the 2026 Winter Olympics, whose opening ceremony felt more like the closing.     "Meh," said YouTube TV's commercial - an ad run ad nauseum - between snippets of a mediocre melee with melancholy music, lackluster art, and a run time of infinity. No one knows how long the Opening Ceremony was because we all died trying to finish it. It w

This blog is short and shitty. Like our attention spans. The end.   << REWIND << to the beginning. Not on the streamer but VHS. Super 8. Dial up and wait. Get a page and call from a pay phone. The Thomas Guide will show the way.   You don't know what these things are. A list of items lost in a landfill. Hey Siri.   Before screens (before time) - before you were they/them. They allowed us to be us. An arsenal of real-life superheroes predicating modern civility. The ones who g

It's layers on layers. Peel 'em back like the skin he stole - the murderer, the tortured soul, and as Hitchcock reminds us - the human.  Ryan Murphy's third installment of the 'Monster' series follows the equally gripping first two on Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez brothers. In it he explores the psychology of Ed Gein, the inspiration for Tony Perkins' character in 'Psycho.' Like Demi Moore's sidewalk slime as MonstroElisaSue in 'The Substance,' Charlie Hunnam's performance

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"I wasn't the prettiest. I wasn't the most talented. I simply wanted it more than anyone else."   Her name's Betsy Lerner but the words...

Sushi. Sumo. Even Toto toilets. But... cinema?   Maybe not your first association with the land of the rising sun. If you haven't gotten...

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a dark figure in a feathered cape falling fifty stories.   This ain't Marvel, girl. Or D.C. - whatever ....

It's been beached on your list for a year and a half. It's critically acclaimed. It won Oscars. But you never got around to watching it....