Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Sometimes things in pop culture align perfectly. Whether it’s synching up Pink Floyd’s “Echoes” with the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey, or a bunch of anime clips cut to “The Becoming” by Nine Inch Nails, a combination of seemingly disparate elements can come together and perfectly distill both to reveals their true essence. Such…
Just like Back to the Future 2 predicted, here in 2015 we seem to be obsessed with nostalgia. It’s nowhere more obvious than in our movies, with some of the most (Jurassic World) and least (Terminator Genisys) successful films of the summer betting squarely on people’s love for looking backward. Joining the chorus is the…
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We’ve finally got a good look at SPECTRE, and there are all the usual Bond trappings — Q even presents 007 with a tricked-out car and hacking skills this time — but at the root of everything? Bond backstory. Everything that’s happening in this trailer is about Bond, and less national security. Waltz’s character has…
BREAKING: The makers of Minecraft have unearthed a pretty good morsel of movie news. Rob McElhenney, best known for co-creating and co-starring in the long-running FX/FXX series It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, has just been selected to direct the Minecraft movie that Warner Bros is developing. We’ll tell you more shortly but wanted to get…
EXCLUSIVE: In a deal near seven figures, Sony Pictures Animation won a three-studio auction for an animated movie pitch centering on the Emoji, those lovable round headed figures that are as much a staple of social media correspondence as adverbs and adjectives. The project will be co-written by Eric Siegel and Anthony Leondis, with the…
As the title suggests, the upcoming stupid-ass movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, will feature Batman and Superman opposing each other, at least for a while, before they inevitably come together to form what will become the Justice League of America. I do not follow this garbage film franchise, because it is stupid, but…
Batman’s #1 foe, The Joker, has been brought to life in many forms over the past seventy-five years, from Cesar Romero’s Joker in the Batman 1966 live-action series, to Jack Nicholson’s in Tim Burton’s 1989 movie, to Heath Ledger’s iconic turn as The Clown Prince of Crime in The Dark Knight. But among Batman purists,…
In a recent interview with an Australian news outlet, Emma Stone addressed the controversy surrounding her character in Cameron Crowe’s critically panned Aloha. Stone, who played an Asian-American woman in the movie, said that she became “the butt of many jokes” following the film’s release, but that Aloha taught her about the importance and history of…
Taking an unconventional measure for an online streaming service—possibly as a way of checking if everyone involved is simply hallucinating from exposure to dangerous quantities of mullet glue—Crackle has released the viewership numbers for its exclusive debut of Joe Dirt 2, showing that 278,000 people watched the David Spade-starring sequel during its first 24 hours…