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Movie Curiosities: Barbie
July 21, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
In a recent interview, Diablo Cody opened up about her own failed efforts at turning in a screenplay for a film about Barbie. In summary, Cody attributes her failure to two crucial factors: Nobody could figure out how to replicate the recent success of The Lego Movie without ripping it off outright; and mainstream discourse at the time wasn’t yet ready to accept Barbie’s pink and flirty presentation as a valid form of feminism. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities — Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One
July 16, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
The rat fucking bastards. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: No Hard Feelings / Joy Ride
July 10, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
I’m way behind on my watch list, and we’ve got two female-driven R-rated sex comedies in multiplexes right now. You know what that means. Buckle up, everyone, it’s time for a double feature! Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities — Insidious: The Red Door
July 7, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
I’m gonna make this quick and easy with two simple questions. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
July 5, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Folks, I was really pulling for this one. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Nimona
July 3, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Once again, we have an unfortunate casualty of the Fox/Disney merger. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
July 2, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
For the past fifteen years, literally since the very weekend Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull first hit theaters, all of pop culture has been overcome with a single unified thought: It can’t end like this. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Flamin’ Hot
June 30, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Richard Montanez was a high school dropout who started out as a janitor at Frito-Lay in 1976. At the time of his retirement in 2019, Montanez was vice president of multicultural sales and community promotions for PepsiCo North America, parent company of Frito-Lay. The kicker is that Montanez’ big claim to fame was the invention of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. A claim that has been flagrantly disputed by reputable third-party journalists and internal PepsiCo investigations (hence Montanez’ retirement from the company). Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: The Blackening
June 28, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Time to call it, folks: Tim Story is a hack. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Elemental
June 26, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
I think it might finally be time to start worrying. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Asteroid City
June 25, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
I’m calling it, folks — if Wes Anderson hasn’t already crossed the line into self-parody, he’s blown past it with this one. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Past Lives
June 18, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Past Lives is the screenwriting/directorial debut of Celine Song, a Korean immigrant who found success as a playwright here in the States. Oh, and her father is a filmmaker — namely Song Neung-han, who’s built a respectable career for himself in South Korea. Read the rest of this entry →
