@sydurbanek Tobe Hooper / Spielberg is probably obvious. Not frequent but I think it’s arguable the conflation with Poltergeist stalls Hooper’s hopes of greater recognition outside the genre. Happens a lot with Spielberg productions, doesn’t it?
If you start watching Super Mario Bros.: The Movie (1993) tonight at 10:53:25PM, Mario and Luigi will don their jumpsuits just as the clock strikes midnight!
A lot of us (us Jews, that is) have encountered the weird antisemitic "you Jews must all know each other" trope, and when it happens it's kind of funny because it's so absurd. And then, like all tropes, it becomes quite deadly.
Tremendously excited to have written this month's music essay over at @guardianmusic: a 10-year retrospective on Beyoncé's "4," her last relatively by-the-rules era when she seemed to realize that said rulebook wasn't going to work for her going forward https://t.co/LCudgLsRye