After 50 years in Government Joe Biden, much like his party, doesn’t have any new ideas. And so, Ole Joe got the band back together and now he’s dutifully playing all the old hits, massaging all the Leftist erogenous zones in the same way The Stones belt out a carefully curated list of the same… Continue reading The Revenge of the Buzzwords (Part 1: Conspicuous Consumption)
Category: Movies
The Library of Cancelled Films (June 18, 2021 Edition)
UPDATE: SCHLICHTER-LANCHE!!! Welcome to all you fans of the Colonel… ain’t he the best? Before we get into George’s two additions to the library, take a minute to go back and read the orignal Library of Cancelled Films post to get an idea of what we’re doing here and why…. OK, are you back? Let’s… Continue reading The Library of Cancelled Films (June 18, 2021 Edition)
Otisburg?!
OTISBURG!?!?!? Ned Beatty dead at 83 So great….
Smokey and the Bandit: Or how I learned to love the Red State/Blue State divide
Believe it or not, there was a time when Hollywood actually cared about getting Red State Americans from flyover country into theaters and worked hard to make movies that treated them with dignity and respect. Yeah I know… but it’s true! Here in 2021 you cannot find a redneck Southern man in a Hollywood offering… Continue reading Smokey and the Bandit: Or how I learned to love the Red State/Blue State divide
RIP BJ Thomas
One of the best sequences in one of the greatest movies ever made.
How Streaming is changing the nature of movies
Actually there are a lot of answers to this question but I want to bring up one specific answer because an insane number jumped out at me this morning. For a hundred years, the economics of Theater-going required that theaters be able to schedule enough showings during a business day to make showing the movie… Continue reading How Streaming is changing the nature of movies
How bad are award show ratings?
This bad… Like, I’d rather be Joe Biden’s sign language interpreter bad… Entertainment Tonight ran a commercial on Hugh Hewitt’s show Monday morning in which an announcer said “plus… what you didn’t see on the MTV movie and TV awards last night…” “What you didn’t see…” Guys… They know no one is watching. But I… Continue reading How bad are award show ratings?
Will New York City ever recover from the Pandemic exodus?
That’s what everyone wants to know isn’t it? Restaurants have been decimated. All those cultural institutions that people swear are the reason they live in New York even though when you press them they’ll admit they almost never go… The Opera, Broadway, Comedy Clubs, the Museums are all closed with no real re-opening in sight,… Continue reading Will New York City ever recover from the Pandemic exodus?
Why do The Oscars suck?
In THE MAGINIFICENT SEVEN, Vin (played by the GOAT Steve McQueen) tells a joke about a guy who decided to jump off a roof. As he fell, the people in the windows he passed could hear him saying “so far, so good… so far, so good…” I thought of Vin’s joke as I woke up… Continue reading Why do The Oscars suck?
The eerie prescience of Bluto Blutarsky’s sweatshirt…
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Here’s a column from an older version of The Congress that still holds up well… in fact, it describes a situation that has only gotten worse. (PS: tune in tomorrow for another edition of THE SATURDAY NIGHT STORY) Ah College… Those heady days when you spent your time practicing the finer points of… Continue reading The eerie prescience of Bluto Blutarsky’s sweatshirt…