Star Wars may have been the first franchise to ever inspire immense cynicism from me. I loved it growing up, but watching the prequels and seeing all the energy people put into making something that just didn’t work made me want to forget those stories set in a galaxy far, far away had ever happened.
You’ve already seen it. We know you’ve already seen it. It’s been the biggest deal on the internet this weekend: Warner Bros debuted the full trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice aka Superman 2: Batman Is So Much Cooler Than Superman, bro. And I must say, ridiculous wig on Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor aside, I think it looks quite fun.
Here’s how much of a bad idea JOBS, the previous Steve Jobs biopic starring Ashton Kutcher was: it was almost called iJOBS. It’s like the producers knew it would be read as an accidental comedy no matter what they tried to do. The new Steve Jobs biopic, appropriately titled Steve Jobs, seems to be making every effort to avoid that same problem.
It’s been another solid blockbuster season at the movies. Mad Max: Fury Road managed to be the rare thought-provoking action movie, Jurassic World seems to have reignited everyone’s inner 10-year-old and, even though it ultimately felt like the year’s least interesting offering, I enjoyed the odd lighter beats in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
I mean “historical” fun, of course. There’s no other way to accurately describe John Cusack playing Roman general Lucius n a historical epic about war with the Han dynasty along the fabled Silk Road. Adrien Brody and Jackie Chan star alongside Cusack as rival Roman general Tiberius and Han dynasty commander Huo An.
Enjoying your time on The Internet today? Me too. You know who isn’t? Anybody being dismissed for having an opinion or worse, threatened with rape and murder because of the genitals they inherited through what seems to be genetic fluke. If you can’t figure out why this is in any way disturbing or problematic (I know you’re out there), maybe you should watch John Oliver explain the deep, dark corners of The Internet.
The second I hear the word “daddy” I picture The Rock. Dwayne Johnson has managed to train an almost Pavlovian response into me, and because we’re talking about The Rock, the second I think about him I start grinning. This post has nothing to do with The Rock though. It’s just about a movie called Daddy’s Home (there he is again) that reunites The Other Guys stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg after five years of both started doing kinda shitty movies despite their general awesomeness.
It’s a good day for a playlist that’s all commiserations for the bad times. Last week’s list offered a selection of pretty contemporary stuff that I have in heavy rotation right now – some Kendrick Lamar, Jamie xx, Unknown Mortal Orchestra. That’s the stuff that keeps me engaged during a daily routine that involves staring into a computer screen from a chair all day.
Maybe you saw FOALS when they came down to South Africa last year. Maybe you didn’t. Whatever. They’ve released this short video that implies we’re about to get new FOALS. And it looks like it’s going to be a lot more of that newer, angrier FOALS that was lurking beneath the surface of much of their last album, Holy Fire.
It’s been a grueling 24 hours in the adult world, folks. I want out. I want back to the simpler, kinder days when all I had to do was consume, drop e, party and eat ghosts. No wait, that’s Pac-Man. I’m always getting myself confused with famous 1980s gaming icons.