by Michael Tanner | May 9, 2022 | Burn After Pitching, Films, Podcast, Pop Culture
Call it a comeback, they’ve been missing for years Forgotten by peers, puttin’ agents in tears Now the offers rain down like a monsoon Listen to our PITCHES go boom! https://archive.org/download/bap-33-call-it-acomeback/BAP33CallItAComeback.mp3Podcast:...
by Julian "Tony" McGinn | Mar 30, 2022 | Article, Pop Culture
You’ve probably seen it and you probably hate it. It’s corporate art style, and it was originally developed for Facebook, but is now in use by just about every other big tech and start-up out there: Google, YouTube, Airtable, Hinge, Uber, Lyft, GrubHub, and Airbnb, to...
by Julian "Tony" McGinn | Mar 23, 2022 | Article, Pop Culture
Remember Vine? Vine, owned by Twitter, was a social networking platform and video hosting app that ran from 2013 to 2016, and although its official Twitter archive was wiped in 2019, you can still find massive Vine compilations on YouTube. The thing that was unique to...
by Julian "Tony" McGinn | Mar 16, 2022 | Article, Pop Culture
Last year, you probably remember the inexplicable viral popularity of “The Wellerman,” a sea shanty sung by TikToker Nathan Evans. It exploded across social media and spent two weeks at #1 on the UK Charts. But when I first heard it, I immediately questioned its...
by Julian "Tony" McGinn | Mar 9, 2022 | Article, Films, Pop Culture, Television
MSTies rejoice! The Gizmoplex is almost upon us! You might recall that in 2017, Mystery Science Theater 3000, the cult classic from 1988, finally came to Netflix. It had two star-studded seasons with appearances by Felicia Day, Patton Oswalt, and Neil Patrick Harris...
by Julian "Tony" McGinn | Feb 17, 2022 | Article, Pop Culture
I recently stumbled across an article about The Simpsons. My first thought was, “Holy shit. The Simpsons is still around? It hasn’t been good since, like, season 14.” Funnily enough, the article addressed this criticism directly. Yeardley Smith (the voice of Lisa...
