Popscotch #2: Purporting Precarious Pop Culture Theories

What’s Popscotch? Popscotch is pop culture hopscotch. Popscotch is when two things marry in your brain, even though they wouldn’t touch each other in real life. Popscotch is when you make a spurious connection with something on TV, or in a song, or an ad on the side of a bus. Popscotch happens when you’re so immersed in pop culture that you don’t even know your own name anymore, but you could easily list the last seven features that Winona Ryder was in faster than IMDB. Popscotch… well, you’ll never really get it until you watch it play out. This month we’re asking… how the hell did Annette get hold of Sebastian’s car at the end of Cruel Intentions? Seriously now. When that chap died there’s no way he had a will, and even if he did, he only met the girl a few weeks back, there’s no way he’d … There’s more

Can’t Hardly Wait (for this movie to end)

Post Clueless and Empire Records and pre American Pie and 10 Things I Hate About You, in 1998 the movie Can’t Hardly Wait made a total non-impression upon me. So much so that I had forgotten the entire plot. Yet as I “accidentally” ended up re-watching it late last night, one thing kept me completely glued to the screen - the incredible number of current Hollywood actors and actresses that seemed to be just starting off their careers in this god awful teen comedy. A 19 year old Jennifer Love Hewitt plays Amanda the typical prom queen and love interest. I must admit her acting skills have come quite a long way since this display of what can only be described as “breathing” her emotions on the screen. Who needs facial expressions or laughter when you can sigh your way through an entire movie. It reminded me of the Adam … There’s more