The next stop in my meandering, years-long journey through the Warner Bros. 50 Film Collection is Lethal Weapon, a film that walks a thin line between wildly entertaining (if absurd) action movie and borderline-self-parody buddy-cop trope-fest. Man, that was a lot of hyphens.
Hindsight blurs that line, as retrospective eyes make elements that were still fresh in 1987 seem like hopeless clichés. As with any historical work or figure, I judge it in the context of the times in which it existed. As such, Lethal Weapon holds up better than one might reasonably expect.
Mel Gibson’s suicidal, manic, disheveled, chain-smoking-and-junk-food-eating Riggs has undeniable comic chemistry with Danny Glover’s by-the-book, old-school Murtaugh. We’re in Gibson’s “still clearly Australian” period, here. This is also one of those movie scenarios where Gibson is playing younger than his actual age, and Glover is playing “too-old-for-this-shit” (in reality, they’re only 10 years apart). See also Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
The Color Purple has the distinction of being the most-nominated film not to win an Oscar. The 1985 adaptation of the Alice Walker novel earned an impressive 11 nominations, but failed to win a single Academy Award, tying the record held by mostly-forgotten 1977 ballet drama The Turning Point.
There are two vital pieces of insight I’ve learned about 
And, so, the first (and, presumably, only) season of WandaVision came to a conclusion with Episode 9, “The Series Finale.” Before I get into the spoiler-y bits, let me recap the key finale expectations I had after 
Over the last month, WandaVision seemingly 
Over the past three weeks, WandaVision has gone from “show I watch every week when I get a chance” to “a 
I received a new reassessment of my land’s value some months ago. Despite not having any structures on this land (or even a road that leads to it), the company the county employed to reassess the land determined that said plot was wildly undervalued.
The Axis of Ego 
NCAA Football without the “NCAA”
The NCAA announced yesterday that it would not renew its long-standing licensing deal with Electronic Arts. An agreement between the two parties has existed in some form for 20 years. The reason for the change is fairly simple: The Ed O’Bannon lawsuit creates huge potential liability for the NCAA. Should a court rule that the organization must compensate athletes for the use of their likenesses, the NCAA could be on the hook for millions upon millions of dollars, depending on where the “line” is drawn for damages in terms of timing and the size of the class eligible for recovery.
Naturally, the NCAA says that “We are confident in our legal position regarding the use of our trademarks in video games. But, given the current business…
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