This week we take a deep dive into Miramax's recent announcement that they're preparing a–sigh–remake of 1999's She's All That.

A big deep dive into the scammy world of MULTI LEVEL MARKETING, with various insight from my lifetime of astute observating PLUS Garden Grove's Phat Bui has a new commercial, and it's a winner.

This week we confront the confounding philosophical dilemma of personal identity over time, with references to the work of Dr. David Kyle Johnson and some discussion of time travel movies like Shane Carruth's Primer (2004) but also some digs at George Lucas.

First, a good long rant about the current coronavironment, then it's back to 1992 for some blathering on about Robert Altman's The Player.

This week—we check in with HBO Max where things are feeling a little drawn out, then it’s back to 1995 as we relive the classic teen comedy “Angus,” which terminates in me telling a true Hollywood story about my prior career as an intern on Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show, where I once had an unforgettable […]

On this week’s big important show: Biden and Trump are locked in a race to the bottom, but Biden sinks faster. Cancel culture continues constraining consumable content. And that’s really it. There’s not more show than that. Slate.com’s roundup of things that are being scrubbed from public consumption for being “problematic.” The racist, unscientific, and […]

This week: Rodeo clown has poor showing in Tulsa / Wisconsin now controlled by violent, confused mobs / Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the USA” must replace problematic National Anthem Film retrospective: Boogie Nights Current film review: Lucy in the Sky Join the Campaign to change our National Anthem to Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the USA” […]

This week: ESPN revives baseball’s steroids era, minus the steroids. I share a touching childhood story based on a text to the CatSounds Voicemail Hotline. The Rise of Skywalker fails to get off the ground, in this reviewer’s mind’s eye. Read my piece, ‘Netflix, and Chilling,’ about the decision to pull a racially-insensitive episode of […]

1. My message to the class of 2020.

2. Applebee's responds to the national crisis, but is it enough?

3. I recant about my prior disliking of Anna Kendrick's Love Life.

This week:

1. Self-checkout artist foiled at Costa Mesa Target

2. The practical things that must change to end police abuses—the drug war, qualified immunity, and police unions.

3. There's nothing on TV.

4. Cameo, an app with some pretty exciting possibilities, including my trial run with Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn Sigler.

5. Cat Horoscopes: Fancy, 1.5 year-old gray tabby.