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Though it rarely gets mentioned in the same breath as The Wild Bunch, McCabe and Mrs Miller and the wave of revisionist westerns that came out of Hollywood in the late 60s and early 70s, Mel Brooks’s Blazing Saddles doesn’t need any artfully hazy Vilmos Zsigmond cinematography to upend Old West mythology. True, it is a comedy where a horse gets cold-cocked, a Native American chief (one of three characters played by Brooks) speaks Yiddish and Count Basie’s orchestra makes an appearance on the plains. Yet from the opening sequence, where Chinese immigrants and recently freed Black slaves work under...

The commercial "What Does the Data Say?" from Monday dot com has three actors: - an older black male - a white female - a white male. If you've been watching TV ads over the last few years, can't you basically write the script? 999 chances out of 1000 you'd get it 100% correct. The older black male is the boss, the white female is a super-competent employee, and the white male is an incompetent doofus that the other two mock. No company would ever have the black male or the white female as the doofus: it's almost always a...

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2209514241/?ref_=bo_we_table_2 Opening weekend Box Office Data shows #2 I don’t believe the data for the #1 spot since the #3 is so far behind #2

Actor William O’Connell, who played a “Star Trek” villain and a Clint Eastwood nemesis, is dead at the age of 94. According to Deadline, which said a family friend informed the outlet of his passing, he died Jan. 15 at his home in Sherman Oaks, California. No cause of death was revealed. O’Connell was a 1st lieutenant in the 45th Infantry during the Korean War. For his service, he was honored with the Bronze Star and other commendations. O'Connell appeared in multiple TV shows in the 1960s, including “Highway Patrol,” “Peter Gunn,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Dennis the Menace,” “Bonanza,” “Batman”...

Today Legion M announced the feature documentary William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill will debut in theaters in North America on March 22, which happens to be Shatner’s 93rd birthday.

William Shatner playing the role of Michael Myers is not something you will find on the actor's resume, but in a way, the Star Trek legend has been playing the Haddonfield killer since his first appearance back in 1978’s Halloween. As everyone knows by now, the mask used by Michael in the franchise, which has become so synonymous with the character that it has never changed across many sequels and reboots, was originally just a regular Captain Kirk mask from a costume shop, but does the likeness to Shatner mean he is in line for any royalties from the horror...

As my colleague Nick Arama reported on Saturday morning, left-wing, virtue-signaling, multimillionaire actress Alyssa Milano had the intestinal fortitude on Thursday to ask her fans to help pay for her son's traveling baseball team's trip to Cooperstown, N.Y., home of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame. My son’s baseball team is raising money for their Cooperstown trip. Any amount would be so greatly appreciated. You can read more about the team and make a donation here:Why all the gall— Wait. We're talking about Alyssa Milano. Never mind.My son’s baseball team is raising money for their Cooperstown trip. Any amount would...

What in the wide, wide world of sports is a-going on here? I hired you people to get a bit of track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!That was railroad boss Taggart (Slim Pickens) in Blazing Saddles, which opened on February 7, 1974, a full 50 years ago next month. The Mel Brooks film would not be made today, more reason to revisit the original.The villainous Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) wants to build a railroad through the frontier town of Rock Ridge but he has a problem. “Unfortunately there is one thing standing between...

Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross lost her network gig in 2022 — but during a recent podcast, she claimed that “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough played a role in her abrupt exit. During an episode of her newly-launched podcast — “Native Land Pod”, co-hosted by Angela Rye and Andrew Gillum — Cross referred to Scarborough as MSNBC’s “favorite white boy” and claimed that she was pushed out for not wanting to spend all her time covering former President Donald Trump. […] Cross went on to say that although she believed Scarborough had worked behind her back to submarine her at...

Starfleet had a base on Mars, as evidenced by an image captured by NASA's Curiosity rover. Amateur astronomer Scott Atkinson found the stone sculpture of the Starfleet insignia among a pile of rocks on the Red Planet's Mount Sharp (Aeolis Mons).

https://www.thechosenriseup.com/ Consider purchasing tickets to Season 4 early. This will help with the Box Office numbers for all the Data Wonks. My prayer is that many will see the first 3 Episodes of Season 4 on the big screen who may not be aware that they can binge watch the first 3 seasons for free on many platforms

Happy New Year! I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas filled with a family and friends, much love and a bare minimum of political combat… for my part, right before Christmas, I got sucked into a really dumb social media political vortex… Yeah yeah, I know… But this kerfuffle was exceptionally stupid… In this case, some terminally online Leftist went to Twitter to announce that they (it almost had to be a they/them right?) couldn’t imagine why any Conservative would enjoy watching STAR TREK, since there’s nothing about a science fiction future which values diversity and civil rights...

Angel Studios, the studio behind the surprise hit “Sound of Freedom,” has announced the completion of its latest project, "Homestead,” adapted from the post-apocalyptic book series Black Autumn, written by Jeff Kirkham and Jason Ross. "Homestead” narrates the story of two contrasting families in a collapsing civilization: a well-prepared, affluent family and a military veteran family hired for security. Set against a backdrop of escalating violence, the plot explores themes of divine intervention amid human conflict.

Gillian Anderson, who is best known for her role in Sex Education and The X-Files, graced the red carpet in a gown embroidered with vaginas to protest ‘restrictions to female rights.’ “My dress is designed by Gabriela Hearst and it has vaginas on it,” Gillian Anderson said to a reporter on the red carpet. “So, female anatomy? Ok, why did you choose this?” the reporter asked. “For so many reasons. For so many reasons,” she said. WATCH:

So, Warner Bros, in one of these sketchy incidents, that keep happening of late, “overestimated” the weekend numbers for “The Color Purple” by over $2 million. Warners had originally stated that ‘Color Purple’ made $13.8 million, but the actual number is said to be around $11.7 million

When The X-Files debuted back in 1993, nobody has ever seen anything quite like it. Following FBI agents Fox Mulder (played by David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (played by Gillian Anderson), the show quickly became something of a pop culture sensation - popularizing the idea of government conspiracies and leading whole generations of people to declare "I want to believe". The original show ran until 2002 and spawned two feature films before returning for a brief (though much less successful) two-season stint from 2016-2018. Now, according to the show's original creator Chris Carter, Disney is working on a new X-Files...

And Disney takes another blow on the chin, this time from South Carolina. According to Moneywise, South Carolina State Treasurer Curtis Loftis has divested the state's money from Disney over the corporation not doing its fiduciary responsibility. Loftis blamed a "structural rot" within the company that he doesn't see it getting away from: “I think it's clear to anybody paying attention that there's a structural rot inside of Disney. It's deep, it’s pervasive, and I suspect Bob Iger, since his return as the CEO, now realizes it can't be fixed,” he told Fox Business Digital, adding that it “does not...

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) expressed anger that his former aide Aidan Maese-Czeropski was caught video-taping a gay porn scene in a Senate Hearing Room. "I'm not opposed to gay sex, per se, but it was inconsiderate of him to embarass me by using his access to Senate facilities for his own entertainment," Cardin complained. Maese-Czeropski maintains that "the setting for the video was integral to the artistic message of the movie--namely that the voters and taxpayers are being raped by the people they elect to represent them in Congress." If you missed any of the other Semi-News/Semi-Satire posts you can...

This funny scene makes this one of the best Christmas movies of all time. John Wayne Lee Marvin Caesar Romero Elizabeth Allen

Thinking too hard makes your head hurt. A study shows that it causes chemical changes in the brain, which present behaviourally as fatigue. Atlas shrugged: “An enlightened citizenry should abandon the worship of logic and the outdated of reliance and reason. Just as a layman leave medicine to doctors and electronics to engineers, so people who are not qualified to think should leave all thinking to the experts and have faith in experts higher authority. Only experts are able to understand the discoveries of modern science, which have proved that thought is an illusion and that the mind is a...