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 08/04/09

Since it ended in 2003, there’s been plenty of speculation about a Buffy movie, but it seems that Sarah Michelle Gellar has now been approached to reprise her role. O. M. G. Al Pacino is set to play Napoleon Bonaparte in an adaptation of the children’s book, Betsy & The Emperor. Hoo-ha! Gore Verbinski director of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies has decided to drop out of the franchise. Instead he will try to kick off a new franchise with a video game adaptation, Bioshock. Two Gary’s (or is it Garies?) have joined the cast of Iron Man 2. Both Gary Shandling and Gary Oldman are now on board. Kal Penn, the dude from House and Harold and Kumar, is going to go work for Obama. No seriously! He’s quit acting and accepted a post as the associate director in the White House’s Office of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental … There’s more