That’s kind of creepy. I had the exact same realization about Bill Maher. He’s a smug individual. I thought “Ok. He holds similar opinions to me about drug legalization & religion so we must be the same” but then you can tell about how he thinks of other cultures like Muslim’s, as if they are lower beings. Anyways, I shouldn’t clog up this forum with politics. I stopped watching Bill like 5-6 years ago & never turned back.
You know what’s odd about that Tom Cruise Deepfake? The guy doing actually does a great Tom Cruise impression. Seriously. I think it’s the actor Miles Fisher, who was in a Mad Men episode(he sells weed to the Orson Welles wannabe). For some reason though when you stick Tom Cruises face on him? It seems bad. But when it’s just his face? It’s really good. Isn’t that odd?
Oh. For anyone reading this and you are a new subscriber who just waits for Drew to post new articles, take a look at his back catalogue from the past year. I’ve been doing that and there’s some great stuff in there.
I agree the Dick Van Dyke guess- he may be the one to help Wanda process her grief and remove the Hex
Really enjoying “Superman and Lois” so far - this could be the best version of Superman since the first two Christopher Reeve movies and two leads are the best versions of the characters in a long time
And I highly recommend “Sleazoid Express” to fans of exploitation movies. I moved to NYC in the mid 80’s after college just the “The Deuce” was starting to die off and the authors love the genre and are great storytellers. Each chapter is devoted to different type of movie and the theater that primarily showed that type of film. The chapters start off with a description and history of each theater and the ambiance and atmosphere of actually watching a movie there. The descriptions are fantastic and you’ll feel like you’re actually in a dank and dirty grindhouse watching “Cannibal Holocaust” . I went there occasionally and believe me they got it right
Continuing to enjoy the newsletter and gifted a subscription to a buddy last year; I started reading you on HitFix, and I'm finding the commentary about media diets and marketing departments particularly engaging.
Awesome to see Wellington Paranormal on your weekly list. I'm a bit late to the party as well, but I've almost wrapped up season 1 via TVNZ on Demand and have generally enjoyed it, particularly Sergeant Maaka. Not sure I have this right, but I believe Taika Waititi and Jermaine Clement pitched a version of the project (and got shot down) by the NZ Film Commission and TVNZ before the Thor movie came out...
Hey, Lee Gambin's book! He's my friend, I met him when I was depressed in Melbourne, Australia! His other books on THE HOWLING, CUJO, CHRISTINE etc are all nice resources to have. Finally gonna start Wandavision tonight. Unfortunately going through a bit of a depression so I might read Darkness Visible again. Great book!
I'd just-re-upped for another year anyway (and would've done so sooner but apparently I'd used a compromised-in-2020 credit card, so I had to sort it out). Keep it up, don't worry too much, and hey, you had me hooked since AICN (and I've been using the Internet before there was a WWW...).
That moment in Superman & Lois is directly from what I believe is the best version of the Superman origin story: A Superman for All Seasons, by Jeph Loeb. That quote tells you everything you need to know about Superman in two sentences, and Hoechlin sold the hell out of it. I swear, he had a literal bounce in his step as he said with such infectious joy.
And then, to top it all off, he was wearing the Max Fleischer version of the Superman suit, only seen in those amazingly beautiful 1940's cartoons that would be the Dini and Timm's inspiration for Batman: The Animated Series.
Superman is my favorite superhero, and I'm sold on S&L. Can't wait to see what happens with Luthor who is not Kryptonian, but almost certainly from another Earth destroyed by last year's Crisis.
As for the other Superman news today, I'm equally intrigued by MBJ possibly brining Calvin Ellis to the big screen. He had an interview with Oprah where he said that specifically. That's a man who knows his comics. I'm less enthused about JJ Abrams and extremely less enthused by Coates. I don't care for his writing, fiction or non-fiction, and I think his is exactly the wrong voice and point of view for any version of Superman in the multi-verse, Clark Kent or Calvin Ellis or any of the others in-between. I think Ryan Coogler would've been perfect for this project, and Warners had the opportunity to continue doing business with him after Creed, but let him walk away to Marvel, and that is definitely their loss.
I definitely agree that the weekly release format is the way to go. How many good and promising shows have been killed by releasing them all at once and destroying any momentum they might have built?
And so much of the fun of WandaVision has been in the sometimes ludicrous, sometimes genius fan theories. I haven’t had such fun with fan guesses since the days of Lost and the non-book seasons of Game of Thrones. The Van Dyke guess is a great one and I wonder if he will appear as his CGIed 60s self a la The Mandalorian’s Luke cameo?
Hate to be a Debbie Downer on this post but here it goes...WandaVision...uhm...no...this is not getting a pass on the storytelling front with me. This was the turning point for me. When they decided to hint that she has some secret hidden powers that enabled her to withstand the experiment with the mind stone, I'm like "c'mon man, is that necessary? Why???" That's what made her cool to me, all these people who signed up for experimentation died in the process, but what made her and Pietro different was the grief they shared in watching their parents die in front of them, it was through sheer will power that they both got through the experiment and came into their powers, hell yeah, that's story with meat on the bones to me. But now you want to tell me she was predetermined from the jump? Nah dude. And the whole Agatha witch backstory...snooze...I'll close it out with ep.8, but no season 2 for me, I'm good.
That’s kind of creepy. I had the exact same realization about Bill Maher. He’s a smug individual. I thought “Ok. He holds similar opinions to me about drug legalization & religion so we must be the same” but then you can tell about how he thinks of other cultures like Muslim’s, as if they are lower beings. Anyways, I shouldn’t clog up this forum with politics. I stopped watching Bill like 5-6 years ago & never turned back.
You know what’s odd about that Tom Cruise Deepfake? The guy doing actually does a great Tom Cruise impression. Seriously. I think it’s the actor Miles Fisher, who was in a Mad Men episode(he sells weed to the Orson Welles wannabe). For some reason though when you stick Tom Cruises face on him? It seems bad. But when it’s just his face? It’s really good. Isn’t that odd?
Oh. For anyone reading this and you are a new subscriber who just waits for Drew to post new articles, take a look at his back catalogue from the past year. I’ve been doing that and there’s some great stuff in there.
I agree the Dick Van Dyke guess- he may be the one to help Wanda process her grief and remove the Hex
Really enjoying “Superman and Lois” so far - this could be the best version of Superman since the first two Christopher Reeve movies and two leads are the best versions of the characters in a long time
And I highly recommend “Sleazoid Express” to fans of exploitation movies. I moved to NYC in the mid 80’s after college just the “The Deuce” was starting to die off and the authors love the genre and are great storytellers. Each chapter is devoted to different type of movie and the theater that primarily showed that type of film. The chapters start off with a description and history of each theater and the ambiance and atmosphere of actually watching a movie there. The descriptions are fantastic and you’ll feel like you’re actually in a dank and dirty grindhouse watching “Cannibal Holocaust” . I went there occasionally and believe me they got it right
Dick van Dyke is the first guess that makes any sense to me.
Continuing to enjoy the newsletter and gifted a subscription to a buddy last year; I started reading you on HitFix, and I'm finding the commentary about media diets and marketing departments particularly engaging.
Awesome to see Wellington Paranormal on your weekly list. I'm a bit late to the party as well, but I've almost wrapped up season 1 via TVNZ on Demand and have generally enjoyed it, particularly Sergeant Maaka. Not sure I have this right, but I believe Taika Waititi and Jermaine Clement pitched a version of the project (and got shot down) by the NZ Film Commission and TVNZ before the Thor movie came out...
Hey, Lee Gambin's book! He's my friend, I met him when I was depressed in Melbourne, Australia! His other books on THE HOWLING, CUJO, CHRISTINE etc are all nice resources to have. Finally gonna start Wandavision tonight. Unfortunately going through a bit of a depression so I might read Darkness Visible again. Great book!
I'd just-re-upped for another year anyway (and would've done so sooner but apparently I'd used a compromised-in-2020 credit card, so I had to sort it out). Keep it up, don't worry too much, and hey, you had me hooked since AICN (and I've been using the Internet before there was a WWW...).
That moment in Superman & Lois is directly from what I believe is the best version of the Superman origin story: A Superman for All Seasons, by Jeph Loeb. That quote tells you everything you need to know about Superman in two sentences, and Hoechlin sold the hell out of it. I swear, he had a literal bounce in his step as he said with such infectious joy.
And then, to top it all off, he was wearing the Max Fleischer version of the Superman suit, only seen in those amazingly beautiful 1940's cartoons that would be the Dini and Timm's inspiration for Batman: The Animated Series.
Superman is my favorite superhero, and I'm sold on S&L. Can't wait to see what happens with Luthor who is not Kryptonian, but almost certainly from another Earth destroyed by last year's Crisis.
As for the other Superman news today, I'm equally intrigued by MBJ possibly brining Calvin Ellis to the big screen. He had an interview with Oprah where he said that specifically. That's a man who knows his comics. I'm less enthused about JJ Abrams and extremely less enthused by Coates. I don't care for his writing, fiction or non-fiction, and I think his is exactly the wrong voice and point of view for any version of Superman in the multi-verse, Clark Kent or Calvin Ellis or any of the others in-between. I think Ryan Coogler would've been perfect for this project, and Warners had the opportunity to continue doing business with him after Creed, but let him walk away to Marvel, and that is definitely their loss.
I definitely agree that the weekly release format is the way to go. How many good and promising shows have been killed by releasing them all at once and destroying any momentum they might have built?
And so much of the fun of WandaVision has been in the sometimes ludicrous, sometimes genius fan theories. I haven’t had such fun with fan guesses since the days of Lost and the non-book seasons of Game of Thrones. The Van Dyke guess is a great one and I wonder if he will appear as his CGIed 60s self a la The Mandalorian’s Luke cameo?
Hate to be a Debbie Downer on this post but here it goes...WandaVision...uhm...no...this is not getting a pass on the storytelling front with me. This was the turning point for me. When they decided to hint that she has some secret hidden powers that enabled her to withstand the experiment with the mind stone, I'm like "c'mon man, is that necessary? Why???" That's what made her cool to me, all these people who signed up for experimentation died in the process, but what made her and Pietro different was the grief they shared in watching their parents die in front of them, it was through sheer will power that they both got through the experiment and came into their powers, hell yeah, that's story with meat on the bones to me. But now you want to tell me she was predetermined from the jump? Nah dude. And the whole Agatha witch backstory...snooze...I'll close it out with ep.8, but no season 2 for me, I'm good.