|
|
Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Monday, July 01, 2019
No summer doldrums this month — not when there’s a Sundance breakout drama, a new Pagan horror movie from the guy who gave you Hereditary and Quentin Tarantino’s valentine to old-school Sixties Tinseltown on the horizon.
|
Bookmarks
You must be logged in to view your Bookmarks.
Hot Topics
Sox Therapy: 2020 Vision (8 - 12:35am, Dec 11)Last: Textbook EditorNewsblog: Some of baseball’s biggest stars are ready to change the game’s free-agency system – The Athletic (9 - 12:12am, Dec 11)Last: Walt DavisNewsblog: Yankees Have Reportedly Made $245MM Offer To Gerrit Cole (21 - 12:06am, Dec 11)Last: The Yankee ClapperNewsblog: As he predicted, Mariners and GM Jerry Dipoto start MLB winter meetings quietly | The Seattle Times (4 - 11:33pm, Dec 10)Last: Walt DavisNewsblog: OT - NBA Thread, Start of the 2019-2020 Season (1410 - 11:32pm, Dec 10)Last:  calming him down with his 57i66135Newsblog: Lou Whitaker snubbed from the Hall of Fame again (135 - 10:59pm, Dec 10)Last:  alilisdNewsblog: Phillies to sign Didi Gregorius | MLB.com (6 - 10:57pm, Dec 10)Last: Walt DavisNewsblog: Dave Parker's larger-than-life legacy is one MLB fans should never forget (38 - 9:56pm, Dec 10)Last: Howie MenckelNewsblog: MLB to stop testing minor leaguers for marijuana as part of new drug agreement, report says (26 - 9:35pm, Dec 10)Last: MeatwadNewsblog: Primer Dugout (and link of the day) 12-10-2019 (28 - 9:27pm, Dec 10)Last: salvomaniaHall of Merit: Mock Hall of Fame Ballot 2020 (42 - 9:26pm, Dec 10)Last: darkvoid116Hall of Merit: 2020 Hall of Merit Ballot Discussion (345 - 9:07pm, Dec 10)Last:  kcgard2Newsblog: OT- Soccer Thread- October 2019 (892 - 8:46pm, Dec 10)Last:  MefistoNewsblog: OT - Catch-All Pop Culture Extravaganza (December 2019) (96 - 7:43pm, Dec 10)Last: Cowboy PopupNewsblog: Late Globe writer Nick Cafardo wins baseball’s J.G. Spink Award - The Boston Globe (1 - 5:01pm, Dec 10)Last: Jose Goes to Absurd Lengths for 50K
|
|
Reader Comments and Retorts
Go to end of page
Statements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy. Please report any inappropriate comments.
This sounds like a very very very very appropriate follow-up to La La Land.
And titling it BABYLON on top (presumable reference to Anger) is just *chef’s kiss*.
That's really interesting - thanks for that. My mother teaches children's literature and has a doctorate on the subject, and she's frequently promoting to others just how well-equipped children are, from quite a young age, to handle 'darkness' (for want of a better word). Some of the stuff in her library is remarkably bleak and delivers almost horror-story style endings, but she always tells me it's the parents who get freaked out more than the children with whom they share it.
The element of Kubo that struck me this time is at the end, where memories are shown to be more powerful and important than immortality, and the grandfather reappears to the villagers, who comfort and even praise him for the man he was (something that we see little or nothing of in the actual movie). That seemed a very nice moment of grace that added depth to all of the themes involved.
Here’s a review.
Have you checked out Hilda, also on Netflix? It's really good, I legitimately enjoy it. It might be slightly young for her (I mean, it's aimed for that age range I think, but I totally understand when kids think things are too young for them)- my oldest is about to be 6 and likes it a lot.
I am up for the challenge, though I don’t know if there’s a definition of “US studio-produced” that could reach consensus.
She mostly liked Hilda, but the less intense episodes didn't do it as much for her, the creepier or scarier the monster in a episode the more she was into it. Now that she can read more she has more options too, she recently read through a graphic novel version of Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book. The Hilda graphic novels the series is based on look great, but she hasn't been interested.
Anyway, I decided it was impossible to settle upon a definition of "US studio-produced" and gave up on the project.
(I used "sold more tickets" as a way of winnowing the list down, so I only had to look at the 39 movies that did a better box office than TLR. The full list of movies released in 2013 with a higher IMDB rating than TLR is very, very long.)
Oof.
You should have her taken away.
On the other side of the tonal scale, I've gone through a couple of watches of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and been thoroughly charmed each time, though the last season didn't work for me as well. Carol Kane remains a national treasure.
PS - She also watches way too much YouTube but it is usually DIY folks, not gamers
I was going to suggest (and then deleted) Santa Clarita Diet as an option. Funny/silly, but really surprisingly gory. (Better Off Ted might be a good branching-off point from Parks and Rec for office-based comedy, and if that works, then Santa Clarita Diet would be a natural next step, since they share a creator.) Community is one of my favorites, and there's plenty of Internet denizens who agree, though it does pack the parody quite densely.
What, it’s pop culture adjacent!
Complete list of Emmy nominees
Am mildly curious if anyone could name the movie without clicking on the link. (I could not!)
I got it! And I also absolutely love that movie.
The movie just came out like a week ago!!!
——
“A boy, in the midwest of this land, will grow up in a home where your book will be on the shelf and spoken of often. He will grow up with these ideas in his head. He will grow into a great orator. He will speak and his words will be heard throughout this land and throughout the world. This boy will become leader of this country and begin a movement of great change. He will speak of you and your words and your book will be the seeds of many of his great thoughts. They will be the seeds of change.”
If the first gets a writing Emmy, the second should a writing Oscar, it’s only fair.
So we're looking at the 22nd sod covered hut, and my wife turns to me and says, "You're really enjoying this aren't you?"
And I say, "You bet, I'm loving this hut, that's some pretty sweet sod, I gotta tell you."
She says, "No, I'm talking about all the young beautiful Swedish women all dressed in their finery. You're in your element."
And I say, "No baby, I've been so enamoured with all these sod roofs and the radiance of your company, I haven't even noticed the...what did you say...'beautiful Swedish women in their finery'? News to me!"
She didn't say anything. She just gave the look that she wasn't buying into it. Not quite the death look, but the severe injury look.
I had to think fast.
So I say, "Well, I had noticed all the weddings though. Is that what you're talking about? Yeah, it's been making me think back to when we got married, you know, so young, with all our lives in front of us. And how lucky all the grooms are here this afternoon, to have someone to share their life with, and how much your love has meant to me through the years, and how lost I'd be without it...So yeah, it's put me in a reflective mood, thinking about us, and all the things we've done together. And our children. And with so many people getting married here today, the mystery of what's going to happen in their lives, and in their families, the personal history that's yet unwritten, and how happy I am with the way things turned out for us."
And she looked at me.
She looked at me and said, "Did you see The Bridesmaid in the Orange Gown."
IT WAS A TRAP!
Everybody had noticed The Bridesmaid in the Orange Gown, I mean, there were a few bridesmaids in orange gowns, but there was only one Bridesmaid in the Orange Gown, if you know what I mean. To deny noticing her would stretch credulity past the breaking point, but if I acknowledged her strålande sexualitet and I'd be done. These are the moments that can make or break a vacation, the heat was on, and not because it was Midsommar.
"I dunno", I said. "There's so much satin here today, don't you think it would have looked better...in chiffon?"
OH YEAH! GIVE IT UP FOR THE KID!
She grinned and shook her head and rolled her eyes, but I knew that I had eluded the snare, and she knew it too. It was all I could do to not let go a Jeteresque fist pump.
If you've ever been to Scandinavia at Midsommar, you know there's a Nordic restraint and wild sexuality, an exotic amalgam to be sure. There's something you can feel in the air, the speeding natural life cycle of the higher latitudes running smack into the idiosyncratic reserve of the culture of the peoples there, who are in some ways are so free, but in other ways so bound by a taciturn formality.
But I like to think, I earned that Midsummer's Night on my own.
#misseditbythatmuch
SCOTUSblog
Verified account @SCOTUSblog
8m8 minutes ago
Hearing first unconfirmed rumors that Justice Stevens has passed away.
Well, I'd hope so. The only review I've seen of the movie gave it two stars!
Thanks for the recommendation. I played the video, and liked the song a lot. It makes sense that they're on Barsuk, because they have a similar melodic gift to Death Cab.
Those of you with kids have probably heard a lot of those ... a whole bunch.
Hey, someone's gotta find the anti-liberal messages encoded in arthouse cinema.
Whoops, I thought Moana was Pixar for some reason, which is why it wasn't included. But no? So now I'm just confused.
EDIT: Honestly the only possible explanation is that they also thought Moana was a Pixar movie.
Three alligators have been found roaming the streets of Pittsburgh in the last couple of months, and one was found in Chicago within the last couple of days. I hesitate to start a rumor that some movie studio is promoting this film by driving a truck full of alligators around and dropping them here and there, but the co-incidence of these events can't be denied.
Huh, didn't notice that either, but Moana's got at least two (You're Welcome and Shiny) that I'd gladly bump others on the list for.
How the hell does a Tarzan movie make the top 3? Wrong.
I do think they got about half of the top ten right, which is probably pretty hard to do when pulling from hundreds of songs.
NOTHING FROM LADY AND THE TRAMP? That's ####### outrageous. No Aristocats? Strange, that's a movie almost entirely about cats that love making music with an obvious standout track. Nothing from that crappy Oliver movie? Mistake, Savoir Faire is clearly a top 40 track and if Tarzan makes the list multiple times movie quality clearly doesn't matter.
For me, several other tracks from Moana would also rank highly, but those are definitely the ones I'm surprised not to find. And 'Savoir Faire' is badly underrated, agreed. I wonder if there was a cutoff for recent movies, otherwise 'MurderRace' would have had a shot at placement, if only for the deconstruction element. Perhaps it's actually a ranking of 'earworms', in which case 'Whole New World' makes a lot of sense.
Different direction, similar topic: did anyone see or hear Austin Wintory's 'A Light in the Void' concert? I Kickstarted it so have the soundtrack, but still waiting for video. It seems . . . intriguing.
The Chicago one is named Chance the Snapper.
BTW, regarding Crawl, it turns out that the father in the movie lives next door to a gator farm, and the levy between them gets breached by the storm. So if the alligators are big it's just because they've had easy lives (rather than being mutants), and the real problem is that there are a #### ton of them in one place. I'm impressed; as creature horror film setups go, that's one that's within shouting distance of plausible.
The best mutant alligators will always be the ones at the end of Cave of Forbidden Dreams.
Westerberg also did several songs for the Open Season soundtrack, but alas, that's apparently a Sony movie.
More importantly: how did that happen? Weird.
Strongly agreed, but the best insane Herzog animal coda will always be the dancing chicken at the end of Stroszek.
There’s gonna be so many cats.
The other three are gold:
* "Florida Man Confesses to Cops, Says 'Jesus Told Me To' Drive Ferrari 360 Off Pier"
* "Florida man found in his underwear rolling around parking lot in an office chair"
* "Cops: Florida man armed with machete tried to ‘kill em with kindness’" (He had the word "kindness" written on the blade of the machete he was trying to wack people with.)
Rhea Seehorn ("Better Call Saul") definitely should have been nominated.
My 5 y.o. loves "Kimmy Schmidt"....Titus is a ####### comedy gold mine.
The movie, of course, that Ian Curtis watched on TV before hanging himself -- hence the run-out notations on the following year's 2LP Joy Division collection Still: "The chicken won't stop" (side A), chicken tracks across the grooves (sides B & C), "The chicken stops here" (side D).
That. Is. Hilarious.
I actually only read the content, not the author. Just perfect.
Chicago was a GREAT musical movie. It would be fun if Cats turns out good.
Never saw it, but my wife (who loves cats) didn't like Cats either.
Are you a 'The Cobbler' guy?
2. People like cats. There's a thing called the internet about it.
I haven't seen a Sandler film since "Big Daddy", but plan to check out "Murder Mystery" on Netflix soon. It was directed by Kyle Newachek ("Workaholics").
EDIT: not entirely true, I did see "Funny People".
My girlfriend and I watched "Murder Mystery" a couple of weeks ago. She paid close attention; I tuned in and out. It was adequate "give me something to watch while I have a drink on the couch" fare. The driving plot device (not quite a gimmick) wears thin quickly, but it's enjoyable at first. I'd give it a C+. Maybe it's a better film if you pay close attention, but then again, it might be a worse film if you pay too close of attention.
The cable company passed on a notice from Time Warner after the latter caught me downloading an episode of The Sopranos at my parents' house. That was 2006-7 and I've never used Bittorrent since. It was a lame download, too, as we had an HBO subscription at the time. Think I just wanted to grab a few seconds of either Tony or Christopher being upset about terrorism.
Can't really think of a modern Korean War film, at least made in America (though I'm sure there must be at something out there).
Well, Lloyd-Webber could trump all that. I don't necessarily see you belting out Aspects of Love ballads in high school or college.
You must be Registered and Logged In to post comments.
<< Back to main