Eric Robinette

I have created a monster by introducing Orion to Cat TV. Now he’s watching non-cat shows like Futurama.

The 2nd Amendment guarantees the right to a spear and magic helmet.

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A Home Alone 2 cast member in their 80s has died, and a celeb in their 80s whose name starts with D-O has died. I can tell the Grim Reaper is trying hard to give us what we want, but these fuck ups are awful.

Never did a C+ sound so vicious.

Watching DESERT FURY on Criterion. Jesus. These must be the sane censors who rubber stamped Miracle at Morgan’s Creek. I haven’t seen a couple this gay coded since Mrs. Danvers and Rebecca’s underwear.

Well this is an awful way to start the day. Godspeed, Glen.

Well, I’ll give Motor City this much: it found a new way to be a Tarantino ripofff. Tell the story with very little dialogue but a lot of on-the-nose needle drops. The end result is like Ben Wheatley and Alan Parker had an ugly baby.

Me: My car is leaking coolant. Please give me an estimate. AAA shop: That’ll be $4074.25 What I wanted to say: Hell no. Eat the corns out of my shit. What I will say: No thanks. Taking it to a friend I trust.

This is excellent.

Tried for Sara Bareilles tix again today. Lowest price at Ticketmaster was $310. Called the box office about ADA tix, but they say they don’t take phone orders. Left the Taft theater a voicemail message, but I don’t feel terribly optimistic.

Tried and failed to get a Sara Bareilles ticket three times now. Allow me to be the 75,232,591st person to declare Ticketmaster the worst website known to man.

Ted Turner has passed away. Dear God, please don’t let TCM join him soon.

finally, a day when people can talk about Star Wars on the internet

I kind of DID have this experience with Psycho. In the mid 90s in Dayton, Ohio, we got to screen a spotless archive print of the film - with Janet Leigh in attendance. Probably my favorite moviegoing experience of all.

Headline on Puck: Should David Ellison buy Roku next? Me: PLEASE GOD NO

There's a lot I don't love about the Oscars moving to YouTube, but I will rejoice in it if it means that winners no longer get played off.

Len Garry of the Quarrymen, the team chest basis for the band that became the Beatles, has passed away. I was very lucky to meet him when I went to the UK. I’ll always remember him singing along with Beatles songs in Liverpool, enjoying his place in history. Farewell, Len. Nothing to get hung about.

Caballeros is wonderfully inventive and trippy. I wish it were better known. But c’mon - BatB is one of their crown jewels. Come ON. Don’t let the lame live action version taint this vote.

Seen elsewhere: The wrong cast member of Home Alone 2 died today.

quick someone award Jeffrey Epstein a Greatest Pedophile Ever medal and Trump will get so jealous he'll release the Epstein Files just to prove he deserves it more

I will not be participating in the 2016 trend. That was immediately after I lost a job I held for nearly 20 years, then moved to a job I ended up hating and lost three years later. Not to mention it was the rise of THAT MAN on the national political scene. Forgive me if I don’t wax nostalgic.

Defaming a murdered woman and shrugging off her death with a lie is about as evil as it gets and no journalist who gets within shouting distance of this vicious troll should let him have a moment's peace about it.

He's not wrong.

This is a much needed tonic after days of unrelentingly grim news.

But folks, you simply cannot make that much timeless work without being the primary reason all that work is timeless. You cannot make six all-time classics in eight years without being truly great, regardless of whether you mark your trail with an inimitable style.

Directors that don’t have an obvious style tend to get the short straw in historical appreciations of the great filmmakers. If we don’t clearly see *them* in the finished film, we think they must not be the primary driver of the film’s quality. This hurt Sidney Lumet, and it hurt Rob Reiner.

Look. Let's just call it early on 2025. Total shutdown. See you all in ... no, not January. February.

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Netflix getting Warner Bros. is bad for art, but right-wing oligarchs not getting it is bad for fascism. The Ellisons already got Paramount and Fox-ified CBS, plus a big stake in TikTok USA and more. On balance, avoiding more Orban-style media consolidation is a good outcome. Such are the times.

I could see the argument for doing new edits of Anthology for Disney+ — the doc can be a little longwinded, even in its shorter cut—but there’s no excuse for this.

Mark Kelly is a genuine American hero, as is his wife, and it should be completely clear to anyone who actually gives a shit about this country that Trump's attacks on him are fucking crazy. Anyone picking sides against him is wrong. Period.

Oh my god IT'S THE MEME!!!

Guys … the last movie specifically told us Bond would be back, even though Daniel Craig would not. This isn’t hard.

today's not quite random theater photo: Anthony Perkins and birthday girl Joan Fontaine in Tea and Sympathy (1954 or so)

Who's solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Pirating new albums is another skill lost to time.

It's not *quite* sweater weather yet, but it IS the first day of fall. So here is lovely Kim Novak in a nice cozy-chunky sweater.

So we want to have only two movie studios eventually ? Sure, why not? variety.com/2025/tv/news...