Los Angeles Angels rookie Ji-Man Choi (whose name rhymes with He-Man, we think) knocked his first-ever dinger Monday night. Nice job, Ji-Man! But when he finished rounding the bases and returned to the dugout, his teammates all ignored him. Baseball players, man.
Game of Thrones can be hard enough for fans to keep keep straight, but if ever six seasons of un-pronouncable names and changing alliances should stick, it’d be Samuel L. Jackson recapping the realm. Yes, it seems Jackson hates the Lannisters about as much as he hates Foggy Nelson, recapping the entirety of Game of Thrones in a new video.
As soon as Nate Parker’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’ premiered at Sundance earlier this year, the film immediately joined the Oscar conversation. Sometimes film festival praise can be excessive, but by the looks of the first teaser trailer and the latest full trailer for the movie, it’s easy to see why Parker’s passion project has garnered so much awards buzz already.
I admire anyone who tries to bring something new to a very stale genre or format. The standup movie or special has remained basically the same for decades. The venues change, the material and comedians change, but the general aesthetics don’t; a man or woman and a microphone, a stage, a bunch of cameras, a couple of reaction shots of crowds laughing, and that’s pretty much it.