almost condescending, it’s like the living embodiment of that Steve Buscemi meme. I heard someone say it was like an AI was forced to watch thousands of hours of those terrible mobile game adds and then made a movie based off of it and I have to say that feels pretty accurate. ...
Most people who saw the poster for “The Fall Guy” assumed it was a meme about the Barbenheimer love interests. You’re lucky we didn’t put the title in Impact font. EXT. SYDNEY – MAKING THIS THE SUMMER’S SECOND-BEST AUSTRALIAN ACTION FILM EMILY is shooting her directorial debut,...
Happy Thanksgiving! Book Meme! I won’t celebrate Thanksgiving this year as I’ll be on the plane to Hawaii—to the island of Kauai. Hawaiian Airlines offers an upgrade food option for $14 which, according to my research, includes some kind of burger. As you know airline food is nothin...
he thinks that if you do not want money you can give it to friends who do. He believes in humanity because he knows a dozen decent people. He believes in women because he had loved his mother. (7:66)
Sheesh…do you really want to know my dark secret? To spare you from the gory details, I say book sites where I usually spend my money to order books. I also find myself surfing Flickr pages of friends with whom I need to catch up. ...
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and he’s going to solve the crime and the bad guy will be caught. That’s a happy ending, but that’s not a noir ending. Sometimes noir is about sex and money, and sometimes about revenge. The characters Cut off from the longstanding values of the human family, these characters turn...
The themes it professes are the ones I find overkilled in literature: sex and food, sleep and friends, money and fame. I also don’t like a narrative style that observes the drip of daily lives. So tedious and unnecessary. The Secret History begins with a modest chronicle of the way ...
It’s been two years since her lastconcert in Lake Tahoeback in 2006. She’s the pop diva from Hong Kong. A gay icon. I remember saving up a week’s worth of allowance money to purchase her debut album in 1985, which was a cassette tape. Over the years she has released over 30 ...
For this money chase is so ingrained in the human mind that somehow the wanting his been mysteriously transmuted into something nobler. [Note: The aspidistra of the title is an extremely hardy common house-plant that at the time was widely considered a symbol of dull bourgeois British taste.]...