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

Movie News 17/04/09

Look, I lead a busy life, ok! I am sorry I missed yesterday’s movie news. On the bright side, that means today’s news is chock-a-block with interesting tidbits: Firstly, for all you horror fans, check out Movie-Moron’s guide to this year’s upcoming horrors. A brilliant round up. Kevin Smith strikes back with his one man show, An Evening with Kevin Smith, in New York’s Carnegie Hall on June 17th. Can someone please go buy me tickets? And maybe some plane tickets to New York too please? Oh, and if you could stretch to a hotel, that’d be great. If you haven’t seen any of Smith’s solo shows, go buy the DVDs now or check out some clips on YouTube: And in now, near daily, new of the Nightmare on Elm Street remake, it seems Sarah Connor’s Thomas Dekker is in talks to join the cast. Well, seeing as his show … There’s more