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Pop Culture Odds and Ends – Out Like A Lamb Edition

While upstate New York has burned me before, I’m going out on a limb and say that I think Spring is officially on its way. Thank goodness for that, since though the snow hasn’t been to terrible here, it feels like winter has been going on forever and I’m ready for some warmer temperatures and not having to make tentative plans pending the weather. I don’t do well being cooped up, though it is admittedly good for my bank account. Of course now that I’ve said this, we’ll probably get a foot of snow dropped on us.

So while I hope it’s almost time to put away my winter jacket for the season, get yourself caught up on the pop culture that you might have missed with this week’s installment of the roundup.

Television

Movies

Trailers

  • Deadpool 2:

 

  • Won’t You Be My Neighbor?:

 

  • The Rain:

 

  • Tag:

 

  • Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger:

 

  • Under the Silver Lake:

 

  • Terminal:

 

  • Nightflyers:

 

  • The Titan:

 

  • The Spy Who Dumped Me:

 

  • Into the Badlands:

 

  • Kodachrome:

 

  • Come Sunday:

 

  • Action Point:

 

  • Fear the Walking Dead, season 4:

 

  • Being Serena:

 

  • Succession:

 

  • The House with a Clock in Its Walls”

 

  • Troy: Fall of a City:

 

  • Cobra Kai:

 

  • The Devil and Father Amorth:

Music

Theater

Books

Stand-up

Odds and Ends

Mashups and Supercuts

  • The Office reimagined as cartoon characters:

 

  • Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt mashed up songs from their Broadway musicals:

 

  • The history of TV theme songs:

 

  • “Feel Good, Inc.” meets The Simpsons steamed hams:

 

  • The Office describes Kanye West albums:

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Pop Culture Odds and Ends – Pi Day Edition

Today is Pi Day (March 14 = 3.14), though since I’ve lost the ability to keep track of the date I am unprepared to celebrate today. I’m actually not a huge pie fan – there are some pies that I like but it isn’t my go to dessert – though perhaps I can swing by a restaurant this evening to get a slice to go. I hate to miss out on food related celebrations.  Had I been in NYC today, I would have grabbed a slice of crack pie from Milk Bar, which is probably my all-time favorite (key lime and pumpkin are close seconds). Now I’ve made myself hungry.

Also pretty tasty – this week’s pop culture roundup. So get yourself caught up on all the pop culture that you may have missed in the last week – and feel free to have a slice of pie while doing so.

Television

Movies

Trailers

  • Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald:

 

  • Santa Clarita Diet, season 2:

 

  • The documentary RBG, which I will watch multiple times:

 

  • Your new favorite show, Making It:

 

  • A Series of Unfortunate Events, season 2:

 

  • The Handmaid’s Tale, season 2:

 

  • Rampage:

 

  • Eight Grade:

 

  • The Grinch:

 

  • The final season of The Americans:

 

  • Andre the Giant:

 

  • Sorry to Bother You:

 

  • Game Over, Man!:

 

  • The Outlaw Johnny Black:

 

  • Show Dogs:

 

  • Paradox:

 

Music

Theater

Stand-up

Odds and Ends

Mashups and Supercuts

  • Tommy Wiseau auditions to play the Joker:

 

  • A bad lip reading of Star Wars:

 

 

 

 

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Pop Culture Odds and Ends – Read the Syllabus Edition

I don’t know if I’m losing my patience or my students this semester are particularly troublesome, but they are really trying to drive me crazy this semester. Not only do they not do the assigned readings and look disinterested during lecture, but they apparently have not even glanced at the syllabus based on the barrage of questions that I’ve received this week. They have their first exam tomorrow so that has really hyped up the inane questions. It’s great for regaling my friends and co-workers with tales of the lunacy – I even had a student who dropped my class asking me ridiculous questions because he didn’t realize that he had dropped the class – but it is no fun for my mental health. I suspect that I’m one and done after this semester and will be leaving my teaching career in the rear view mirror. Lecturers don’t get paid enough to put up with this foolishness.

So while I answer the same question 50 times, get yourself caught up with all the pop culture that you might have missed with this week’s roundup.

Television

Movies

Trailers

  • Ready Player One:

 

  • A Cobra Kai teaser:

 

  • Trust:

 

  • Collateral:

 

  • Silicon Valley, season 5:

 

  • The Dangerous Book for Boys:

 

  • Gringo:

 

  • Kings:

 

  • Lost in Space:

 

  • The Push:

 

  • Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1:

 

  • The Last Movie Star:

 

  • Jessica Jones, season 2:

 

  • Uncle Drew:

 

  • The Force of Sound:

 

  • Mary Magdalene:

 

Music

Theater

Books

Odds and Ends