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SPICE GIRLS MAKE REUNION TOUR OFFICIAL
I love the Spice Girls, but if I wanna be their lover I gotta get with their friends; and frankly I don’t have that kind of time. Or stamina. And I’m holding out for the Total [...]

The cover of Nirvana’s breakthrough album NEVERMIND depicted a baby swimming towards a dollar bill. For the fifteenth anniversary of the album’s released, Rolling Stone restaged the photo shoot with the same kid, Spencer Elden.
Quote courtesy CROOKS AND LIARS:
“You still hear the singles being played on the radio and it just doesn’t sound dated. Most [...]

A while back I interviewed Kendal Sinn for the podcast. He’s the director of web series SHADOW FALLS, which was hosted by The Horror Channel.com. Scary buncha shorts. Kendal is a skilled director and more importantly for me, a self-starter as an interview.

Anyway, SHADOW FALLS’ creepy first season, he announces today, will be released on [...]

Apple’s iPhone will be released Friday night, and of all the tons of coverage it has received, no one has dealt with the evil metaphysical implications. No one, that is, except Wired.com’s Lore Sjoberg:
Keep in mind… that Apple is also one of the main proponents of so-called “voice recognition” technology. Every Macintosh computer they ship [...]

You take so much for granted when you go to the movies today. But we didn’t always have stereo sound, or color, or George Clooney. And for a surprisingly long time you couldn’t buy candy.
This rundown in Slate details the history of movie theatre concessions. For the first 20 or so years of movies, theatre [...]

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In todays show: Unless you write your congressman it will be all American Idol finalists and Jay-Z duets until the end of time… Vegetarians strut their animal protein deficient stuff… and in my commentary; we probe the nexus of money and funny. All this [...]

Attention US Readers! I don’t do a lot of activism here (aside from complaining about things) but this matters to you. Today your favorite internet radio stations are participating in a “day of silence” to call attention to a new copyright law going into effect on July 15th. It will raise royalty payments that internet [...]

Adam Savage writes eloquently about the beauty of the special effect of BLADE RUNNER, which is celebrating a 25th anniversary this month. Among other things, he points out that in the pre-digital age, all those elaborate cityscapes had to be produced in camera. In those days, special effects were hard physical labor. Nowadays, they’re all [...]

This weekend I went out a caught a matinee of KNOCKED UP. Funny little comedy from the makers of last year’s THE FORTY YEAR OLD VIRGIN. That movie, you’ll recall, starred Steve Carel, who was at the helm of another movie that opened this week, EVAN ALMIGHTY. This is also a funny little comedy, if [...]

Ah, Netflix. When you pay by the month instead of by the movie, you order movies you’d never even consider paying for. My last two Netflicks deliveries were both enormously satisfying: GILDA, starring Rita Hayworth from 1946, and SHORTBUS, directed by John Cameron Mitchell, from last year. Both are wonderful, both are sexy, but only [...]