Wolf’s Rain is a poetic and strange fantasy anime series from 2003 that I watched mainly because it had music by Yoko Kanno, not long...

Congrats to all the Oscar winners. I don’t know if I’ve ever felt less connected to what’s going on with movies...or with the culture? I...

I want to take a moment from CD sales to say how much I am loving Severance . I had heard great things about it but had not watched until...

So sorry to hear of the death of Gene Hackman and his wife (and one of their dogs). I’ll refrain from speculating and just leave it to...

Big news this morning that Amazon is taking over creative control of James Bond . You know what this means. Get ready for The Adventures...

As usual I am three years behind the times in pop culture, but I am just now watching Severance on AppleTV and loving it—especially the...

We’re taking a break from the CD sale today. Sunday is family day for us and with the post office closed, there’s not much to do. But...

Can they ever make the NFL all-star game, the Pro Bowl, worth watching? Probably not, due to the nature of football: the injury concerns...

I found a whole new way to procrastinate via YouTube (as if there weren’t already enough ways): videos of the synthesizer patches that...

penguin not included! I’ve mentioned before I am a partner in a new company called Pop Culture Coffee . It’s been a long time since FSM...

I finally watched the third Deadpool movie. There’s a ton of it that’s just juvenile (the point) but the jokes are so fast and dense...

I didn’t even realize the nominations were being announced. The list is here . I barely saw anything this year. For those of us trying to...

Check out this vintage 6/17/77 interview with Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill that was posted by the Museum of Classic...

To be clear, this is not a documentary about Vince Guaraldi—this is an obscure documentary scored by Vince Guaraldi. And trigger warning,...

Along with large portions of the Palisades and Altadena now we have lost another L.A. institution, the great David Lynch. What a singular...

I enjoyed the Skeleton Crew finale. There was something off about it I can’t quite put my finger on. Probably the fact that I’m still...

I was such a TV junkie as a kid. Cartoons, action-adventure, sitcoms, Star Trek , old movies, sports—I watched probably way too much. Our...

I am loving Squid Game 2 which I have started watching on Netflix. As with the Hunger Games sequels, it’s a heavy lift to get the...

My appreciation of Blade Runner 2049 only continues to grow. It plays a lot on cable and I am always mesmerized by the incredible...

I saw that Dune: Prophecy was renewed for a season two . This surprised me because the (brief) first season seemed convoluted and...