Chuck Hartsell

I thought this premise seemed familiar. Looked it up and found it's based on the Norwegian film, The Trip, directed by Tommy Wirkola. That one is on Netflix, and it's definitely worth checking out.

Why isn't April Fools' Day a drinking holiday? I mean, we import holidays like St. Paddy's Day and Cinco de Mayo as excuses to drink. Why not April Fools' Day? Go up to your bartender, and say, "I'll just have a beer." Then say, "Ha! April Fools! A beer and seven shots please."

The math on William Shatner’s existence is hard to process. He was born closer to the Civil War than to today. Montreal, 1931. His father manufactured clothes. His first acting role came in 1951, the same year color TV was introduced to the American public. Star Trek premiered in 1966. It lasted 3 seasons and got cancelled. The first rerun aired before humans had walked on the Moon. Those reruns are still generating licensing revenue 57 years later. He’s been famous for 60 consecutive years. He survived being typecast so severely in the 1970s that he did convention appearances for grocery money. He survived his third wife’s death. He survived Hollywood writing him off as a joke. Then he weaponized the joke. Priceline commercials. The roast. Spoken-word albums where he recites Elton John lyrics as dramatic monologue. Every project that should have ended his career somehow added to it. At 73, back-to-back Emmys for Boston Legal. At 90, oldest person to fly to space. At 94, a Super Bowl ad. At 95, 4.3 million people watching him smoke a cigar on X. His career has now outlasted the Soviet Union, the Space Shuttle program, Blockbuster Video, MySpace, and the first three generations of AI models. He’s been working since Truman and he’s posting through the Claude era. The compounding is the point. 75 years of showing up created a distribution moat that no amount of talent alone could replicate.

At 95, I'm still smokin'! 😝 I’ve learned two things: Never waste a good cigar. Never trust anyone who says you should ‘act your age.’ 😉👍🏻

I have just learned that dear friend, Reggie Bannister, the unlikely and well loved hero of the Phantasm franchise, has entered hospice care. A gofundme page has been set up on his behalf to help aid him and his loved ones through this time. gofundme.com/f/support-regg…

Damn. Awful to hear. Way too soon. RIP nbcnews.com/news/obituarie…

But why?

Van Jones nails it

@JonathanJanz @BDisgusting Fantastic news! Congratulations!

Beyond thrilled to share this news: three new books, all three in Film/Television development. Thanks to Matthew Jackson for this killer article in @BDisgusting, about the deal with Weird Tales and Lit Entertainment. It all starts with MARLA this June! bloody-disgusting.com/exclusives/393…

@SethAMandel Looks promising, but would much prefer to see that Guy Ritchie was making a third Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey Jr.

young at heart I guess

@looptrnnr I saw it when it came out, so I didn't see it with any of that hype behind it. If I were just seeing it now, and thinking I was going to see something on par with The Thing, I'm pretty sure I would hate it.

@GroovyMarmalade I feel like ppl hype it up similar to The Thing, and I do think it has some interesting themes, but as a movie I just don’t find it as entertaining

They Live

@kkfilms Might be worth a look if it hits Netflix or another streaming service. But I definitely don't recommend going to the theater to see it.

@GroovyMarmalade Was thinking about seeing it, but Besson hasn’t done a good movie in quite a while…

Saw Luc Besson's "Dracula: A Love Tale" last night. I generally like Luc Besson's films. Even the nuttier ones. Sadly, this one was plain tedious to sit through. Acting, production design, etc., all excellent. It just felt so slow. Not to mention zero horror.

Also it borrows the Dracula backstory from Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, and even expands it with flashbacks scenes.

@PeterMeijer It's been some time since I've seen it, but I don't recall The Russia House being a particularly good film. Maybe not bad, but not on par with the others mentioned here.

Phenomenal show. Has there been a bad John Le Carré adaptation? Little Drummer Girl was phenomenal, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (miniseries and modern movie) excellent. If Our Kind of Traitor and A Most Wanted Man are weakest links, what an incredible oeuvre.

This is so awesome. I saw THE THING on opening weekend (even though I was only 14 years old). Scared the shit out of me, and I've loved it ever since.

If you're a sci-fi horror fan you will love this book. And 99 cents is a ridiculously good deal.

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Reckless. But he also called ICE the “gestapo,” so par for the course with this failed, clownish demagogue (he couldn’t pronounce “gestapo” when he said it).