In 1986 a struggling Saturday Night Live had nothing left to lose, so it had Megalopolis director Francis Ford Coppola produce, direct and sorta host a very special, crazy, unique episode of Saturday Night Live.
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Oliver Stone gingerly threw out a screenplay by the infinitely more talented Quentin Tarantino so he could recreate Natural Born Killers in his own odious, obnoxious, insufferable image.
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Elon Musk predicted that the Academy Awards would celebrate all things woke. He seems very upset that it didn’t happen that way.
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Yes, Virginia, Dennis Rodman and Dane Cook really did star in a movie together, 1999’s Simon Sez. And yes, it was just as fucking miserable as you would imagine. Robert Downey Jr. really dodged a bullet dropping out of this turkey.
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Anthony Michael Hall only directed one movie, 1994’s Hail Caesar. It is quite poor.
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Robert Smigel’s TV Funhouse infamously mocked the mental health struggles and drug problems of Margot Kidder, Robert Downey Jr. and Anne Heche that was almost unbearably brutal at the time and now feels both needlessly cruel and disturbingly prescient.
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In a piece collected in the forthcoming Fractured Mirror book I wrote about Frank Oz and Steve Martin’s beloved show business comedy, featuring two of Eddie Murphy’s best performances.
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Disney is releasing awesome behind-the-scenes photos that underline what a huge pop culture phenomenon The Avengers has been and also how I’m so desperately lonely and miserable that it takes enormous willpower just to get from one day to the next.
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Shane Black and Robert Downey Jr. came back in a big way in the hilarious and wildly entertaining 2005 neo-noir Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
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You’ve read all the other reviews. Might as well read this one as well.
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