Over the past six months or so I’ve heard a few mentions of this film, all of them reasonably favorable, so I finally decided to watch it. What we have here is a half-hour-long, intentionally over-the-top parody of 1980s Hollywood … Continue reading
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From YouTube’s “What’s the Mashup ?” channel out of France, the latest compilation of dance clips, this time from television series and set to Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling.” There are 75 total clips used. To see which programs … Continue reading
IBMs Watson project has used AI techniques for a variety of things, perhaps most famously competing against humans on the gam show Jeopardy. It has even done an analysis of the characters in George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice … Continue reading
As you probably know, Gene Wilder died yesterday at the age of 83 from complications related to Alzheimer’s disease. A number of good obituaries were published today, but some of them understate his contribution to Young Frankenstein. The screenplay is … Continue reading
John Oliver talks about politicians who use popular songs for self-promotion not merely without permission but often apparently without a lot of thought. Donald Trump has hilariously used “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” (at the end of the … Continue reading
I’m not a particular fan of Star Trek (or of Star Wars, for that matter, having seen only four of the films in that series), but I’ve nothing against people who are, and I rather like this home theater based … Continue reading
Since a lot of readers of this blog are fans of the Jesse Stone movies, I thought I’d pass on news from my brother Mark that the films are now available on line via the relatively inexpensive subscription video-on-demand service … Continue reading
In honor of Season 6 of HBO’s Game of Thrones, here’s George R R Martin’s alleged appearance on Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” from two years ago. Link: https://youtu.be/D9fv74wt6Dw (We’re still waiting, George.) Meanwhile, in case you haven’t seen it, … Continue reading
This isn’t a joke: The cat pictured, a very friendly stray named Manny, has learned to push the shutter release on a GoPro camera, and the resulting selfies tend to be pretty good. I swiped the photo above from an … Continue reading
A few years ago an action movie fan in Uganda named Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana decided to make a movie. Like many people in his country he had little money and lived in difficult circumstances, but he and his friends … Continue reading