I’ve concluded that I cannot watch, read, play, or listen to all the entertainment that I would like. There is simply far too much quality entertainment. This is a good thing, but also disappointing.

I mean, I carved out chunks of time to watch Zack Snyder’s Justice League. It’s a long, long movie. I had other things to do in my life that did not include watching gods among mortals fight the inspiration for Thanos. Still, there’s so much good stuff out right now. …

When I entered high school in the early 80s I was a musical neophyte. I didn’t know any popular music and I ended up becoming a sponge listening to everything from Iron Maiden to Journey. I grew up in the era of MTV, so I was bombarded with Madonna, Prince, and Michael Jackson videos. The idea of music and visuals became cemented in my mind. A lot of the big music videos of the day were in reality mini-movies.

Music and movies have always been at the forefront of my pop culture existence and when they collided it was always…

Let me get this out of the way… I’m not a fan of the Zack Snyder movie aesthetic. I understand what he’s doing. It has its fans. For the most part, it just isn’t something that appeals to me. His aesthetic with the slo-mo, dark streets, saturated colors, and needle-drops is never subtle. I love it in 300. I like it in Watchmen. I dislike it in practically all the rest of his movies. He’s a thinking man’s Michael Bay, which is as nice a compliment as I can muster.

That all being said, the fact Snyder has completed his…

As March once again comes roaring in and college basketball is ramping up to its most prestigious event, I’m excited to see the University of Illinois in the thick of things. This year’s team is headed for a 1 seed and could make an incredible run. I know I’m excited.

College basketball is a series of cycles. Sometimes you’re riding high for a few years, and sometimes you’re on the downward slope hoping to head back up the mountain of greatness. Illinois Athletic Director Josh Whitman talked about climbing that mountain in 2016:

When faced with climbing the biggest mountains…

Deadline broke the news that author Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing a Superman reboot feature for Warner Bros and DC, and J.J. Abrams is producing. I am understandably curious if Henry Cavill is wanting another shot at wearing the suit and cape.

In any event, the public has not really had the perfect Superman movie, and that’s a shame. Superman the Movie is pretty good until the whole flying against the Earth’s spin really fast lets you go back in time plot point, which is hot garbage. Superman II was pretty amazing at the time for its superhero battle, but it…

Over these last few weeks, I’ve been really enjoying WandaVision on Disney+. It is highly inventive with a mysterious premise and hopefully a payoff as good as the setup. Just one more episode, and we’ll know. My personal knowledge of Vision and the Scarlet Witch was pretty limited before I dove into some comic history. I was aware of the marriage, the twins, Wanda’s predilection to cause wholesale changes to all of reality, and Agatha Harkness. Talking with friends, I mentioned I was pretty convinced Agnes was Agatha Harkness even before the big reveal in Episode 8. The overarching mystery…

I love walking into my local Borders. I can pick up three paperbacks, and they will all be priced $7.99 no matter if they are by best-selling authors or someone I’ve never heard of before. A book that is considered a bestseller costs the same as a book that doesn’t crack the bestseller list. It’s the same with paperbacks as well. We are buying form versus buying content. It’s simply the cost for book production plus a few extra dollars for profit, royalties, marketing, and overhead.

Content versus form is everywhere. Newspapers, magazines, movies, and music have the same problem…

This will not be a hot take or even an original take. I don’t understand the criteria for what constitutes “rock and roll” in the eyes of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The latest list of potential inductees has surfaced. It includes Mary J. Blige, Kate Bush, Devo, Foo Fighters, the Go-Go’s, Iron Maiden, Jay-Z, Chaka Khan, Carole King, Fela Kuti, LL Cool J, New York Dolls, Rage Against the Machine, Todd Rundgren, Tina Turner, and Dionne Warwick.

Of this list, basically half are actual rock and roll artists: Devo, Foo Fighters, the Go-Go’s, Iron Maiden, New York…