Virtue signaling is nothing new. We see it in the social media posts of our friends as often as we see it from celebrities, influencers, and even worse, in politicians. In politicians who are making crucial decisions with our laws in the hopes of impressing the Hollywood “Elite”. In Hollywood the virtue signaling has gotten so intense and so ugly that to falter for even a moment may get you canned and cancelled. Look no further than Ken Jeong when one of the Masked Singer’s was revealed to be Republican Rudy Guiliani. Before Hollywood lost their minds, the former mayor…
Author: Tillie Toro
So, I have a bone to pick with a few conservative reviews of the Pixar/Disney film Turning Red. Once again, the mental gymnastics we have to perform just to try and say that a kid’s show is leaking some kind of leftist agenda is as grating as it is humiliating. It would be one thing if it were true or if there was some credence to these claims. Yes, I know. Disney is leftist. Disney is evil. Disney is also proof of the American dream, proof that capitalism is the way, and they have lately produced very family-oriented films without…
We reported that legendary comedian and America’s “Dad”, Bob Saget died on January 9th, 2022. At the time, all that was known was that he had died and had been found in his hotel room after a performance in Jacksonville Florida the night before. Cops indicated no foul play and no signs of substance abuse were found in his room. His family requested privacy, as per the norm. There were touching tributes and a funeral in the days that passed. We were told by both police and the family that the results from the autopsy could take any from 4…
Beware writers and entertainers the world over. Slapping a “Based on True Story” or “Adapted From Real Events” may not be enough to protect your art when you blatantly lie about what really happened or about the people said events happened to. Honestly, it’s about time. Movies like “Remember the Titans”, “Glory Road”, “Cool Runnings”, and countless dozens have been making a mockery of history in the name of drama for years, particularly when it comes to sports movies. Upselling the drama by making racial tensions greater than they were, lying about whether or not a team was the underdog,…
This is the second time I’ve had to write about Peter Dinklage and his cry baby histrionics. Now that the man isn’t working on Game of Thrones, he’s become absolutely insufferable. He already was, we just didn’t have to hear about it all the time. Last time he was written about, he was calling fans of Game of Thrones racists for not liking the show’s final season, especially the final episode. “[Fans] wanted the pretty white people to ride off into the sunset together. By the way, it’s fiction. There’s dragons in it. Move on!” He proclaimed. Well, how ironic is…
These days it’s getting harder and harder to accept the reality that we live in. In a world where being a rock star once meant being a rebel, it’s hard to swallow these conformist ideologies being spewed like bile at their fans. Though, to be fair, Neil Young’s fans probably aren’t that far from the grave themselves, whereas Joe Rogan’s listeners are anywhere from half his age to more than double it. Neil Young has always been a vocal and political voice in music. There’s literally a Lynard Skynyrd song called “Sweet Home Alabama” telling Neil Young that “A Southern…
It’s nearing the end of January and we have already lost several legends this year. Ronnie Spector, Bob Saget, Meat Loaf, Sidney Poitier, and Louie Anderson, just to name a few. Even as our favorite journalists or news sources report these deaths as soon as they can, we get lectured by some of them and even some of our own friends and family. How dare we “care more” when a celebrity dies. How dare we feel grief over people who are famous for playing pretend, for performing music, or for telling jokes for a living. We get the guilt trips…
Can you spoil a mostly biographical movie? If you’re a history buff or a pop culture connoisseur, then no. So… If you don’t want anything spoiled about the film, this review may not be for you. We’re gonna start right out of the gate with… SPOILERS BELOW First, allow me to make clear that while certain conflicts in the film were in fact real in this “true story”, the timeline was altered heavily and so too were the conflicts themselves, all for the sake of the drama. Many films have been claimed to be true stories, Disney’s sports stories in…
Around eleven am eastern time on Sunday, January 9th, 2022, a fire started on the second and third floors of a high-rise apartment building in the Bronx. It quickly spread out of control and managed to injure dozens and has killed 19 people so far, 9 of which were children. The smoke itself has been determined to be the killing factor as it suffocated and trapped dozens of residents above where the actual fire was burning. The building which has been up since the 1970’s is 19 stories and houses 120 units of which the second and third floors are…
Legendary comedian and actor Bob Saget was found dead in his Ritz-Carlton hotel room on January 9th, 2021, at approximately four o’clock that afternoon. The sixty-five-year-old had just tweeted in the very early morning hours shortly after a performance in Jacksonville Florida with Tim Wilkins about how “addicted” to standup comedy he was, as he’d just performed the night before to a live audience. The comedian even plugged his website for fans to check out upcoming shows and dates for 2022. There is no doubt that the comedian had no doubts about being around to continue to perform as made…
We all know people who are great at tipping and those who aren’t. We know people who will not tip, we know people who do so excessively. In America getting paid with tips is the bread and butter of thousands of citizens. Depending on the restaurant and the type of people that the establishment caters to, one can make anywhere from poverty level earnings to six figure earnings. Tipping has also become a heated debate many times through the past thirty or so years. Among what’s complained about is whether or not you should tip the waiters in cash only,…
Disney’s Encanto has been out since Thanksgiving 2021, and thanks to the constant need to please everyone, a lot of people on our side of the political aisle have been boycotting movies. But honestly, don’t boycott this one. It has absolutely nothing to do with politics. I mean, you’d really, really, really have to be searching to find something in this movie that’s “woke”, or some kind of insulting and I tried. If someone else did, then give them a gold medal for their mental gymnastics. The movie takes place in Columbia and has a fantastic voice cast of talented…
There is nothing more irritating to a fan than when a season finale does something stupid, but when a series finale ends poorly it’s irrevocable. Don’t get me wrong, I never watched Game of Thrones but like the rest of the world, it was plenty spoken of. People complained about the titular throne being melted down, and about one main character falling to her own insanity or something, and one of the other main characters being banished? No matter what anyone thought of the final season, the show in whole was incredibly successful. HBO made millions off the series that…
For those of you who don’t know, a legal Cuban immigrant was sentenced on December 15th, 2021, to 110 years for the accidental, but ultimately reckless, vehicular homicides of Doyle Harrison, 61, William Bailey, 67, and Stan Politano, 69, and Miguel Angel Lamas Arrellano, 24. Their deaths occurred during a traffic incident on April 25th of 2019 that happened when Rogel Aguilera-Mederos brakes failed while driving a Semi-Truck. All 110 years were to be served consecutively, which was what had a majority of people reading their news articles the next day up in arms. Even the judge who issued the…
Charles Dickens, as one movie proclaims, was the man who invented Christmas as we know it today. FG Kitton, who wrote the original essay titled “The Man Who Invented Christmas”, appears to be wrong. A simple enough search will teach you very quickly that that the author of some of the greatest stories of the Victorian Era did not come close to inventing the holiday and if you think about it, that makes sense. Afterall, if the holiday wasn’t still recognized and celebrated during his era, then what exactly were Scrooge’s employee and nephew doing on Christmas day? The truth…
When people started demanding $15 an hour to be the minimum wage, many conservatives warned that it would bankrupt and destroy small businesses, or worse; it would require something inhuman to take their place. They argued the increase could potentially damage and destroy even larger companies as well. No one listened. Stores and restaurants closed when they couldn’t afford to meet those demands. Places like McDonalds doubled down and purchased kiosks to make everything as automated as possible. Waiters, waitresses, and even some hostesses naively believed that they were exempt from this situation. Well, Ottawa, Canada, has a big surprise…
During a Fox News interview on December 21st, 2021, Ted Cruz was discussing Big Tech. He was being mostly serious when his Apple phone’s host, Siri, interrupted him. The Senator wasn’t really caught off guard and handled the moment like a pro used to taking jabs and swipes from Donald J. Trump. (Seriously, that was probably the best thing for the entire Republican party about Trump stepping into politics, being forced to learn how to take a public lashing and come back stronger). What did Siri find so offensive about Cruz’s speech that she just had to speak up? Ted…
Men receive a lot of flack when it comes to objectifying women in nearly everything they do, but let’s be honest ladies…Jason Momoa was what made Aquaman a massive success. Aquaman was one of the worst movies DC and Warner Brother’s has ever put out. Okay, so maybe not the worst, but of all the DC films, it really wasn’t that great. Its success was because of us. The millions of ladies around the globe that gathered in theaters to oogle, stare at, salivate over, drool, or fantasize about Aquaman, which led to the majority of the cast being resigned for…
In 1997, JK Rowling changed the entire literary world when she wrote the first installment of her Harry Potter series. The left-leaning, progressive authoress has been making more money than she has headlines with her tale of a young boy who discovers that not only is he a wizard, but he’s the chosen one meant to take on the most evil wizard of all time. So immersive was the world that Rowling created, that she even invented a completely new sport for her wizarding world called Quidditch. In the story, wizards and witches fly on brooms while trying to throw…
Ever since that fateful day when NBC reporter Kelli Stavast lied on air about the “F*** Joe Biden” chants being bellowed about her, the winner and interviewee Brandon Brown has been worried. Worried because he has sponsors to maintain. If he doesn’t keep or gain new sponsors to replace those that drop him, he can’t afford to race. If he can’t race, he certainly can’t win another Xfinity Series or any other series. The Republican had never really bothered to talk about politics and did his best to stick with what he knew. Driving. I would imagine that Brown is…
On December 5th, 2021, at Kroger grocery store in Lemon Township, Ohio, an elderly woman’s purse was snatched. After calling for help, a young man came to her aide. He chased down the thief and laid a pretty good whoopin’ on the man before performing a citizen’s arrest until cops could arrive to take him into custody. It all started when 89-year-old Pat Goins was making conversation with 27-year-old Deshawn Pressley as they were each standing in a checkout line. The father and his one-year-old moved onto one cash register, while Goins went to another. Suddenly, Goins cried out for…
On December 19th, 2021, former President Donald Trump sat down with Maria Bartiromo during an exclusive interview. You won’t find a lot of videos on it because Sunday Morning Futures is something you need to have a Fox subscription for, or at least a cable subscription. That’s not counting the fact that Trump isn’t allowed on most social media anymore. There’s even some question as to how long a video depicting him will even stay on Twitter before the social media Oligarchs pull it down. Several issues were mentioned, including the massive Infrastructure Bill that was allowed to pass. Trump…
I have spent the past fifty-six minutes since I got out of the theater debating on how much I want to tell you about the film Spider-Man: No Way Home, starring Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zendaya. The trailers alone make it clear that you will at the very least see familiar faces like Doc-Oc played by Alfred Molina and Green Goblin played by Willem Dafoe, so I have no problem talking about them. The question remains; to spoil or not to spoil? I’m going to put up the SPOILER WARNING now just in case anyone gets all mad because I mention…
In the mid to late 90’s Ben Affleck’s face was everywhere. What makes his career so interesting is that he didn’t get pigeonholed or typecast into one kind of movie or another. Affleck was in comedies, action-flicks, and dramas. He was in everything from Oscar winning movies like Good Will Hunting to blockbuster flicks like Armageddon. The 00’s made him an even bigger star and saw him doing more action films like Sum of All Fears while still doing dramedies with buddy Kevin Smith in Jersey Girl. But it wasn’t his acting talent (or lack thereof to some critics) that…
Most news sources have been doing everything in their power to avoid being censored, kicked, booted, demonetized, restricted, or banned from various social media outlets. They do this by avoiding specific conversations or keywords in posts, status updates, tweets, and so on. For example, instead of referring to COVID-19 or Corona Virus as such, people called it “the vid” just to fool the algorithms that were searching for keywords. That didn’t last long. Next came the vaccines, which were not at all “fact-checked” while Trump was running for a second term. The moment Joe Biden won, everything changed. Suddenly you…
So, this weekend I streamed a couple movies to do a single review. The first is an action flick, but the second I did because it’s the holidays and I was looking for a decent Christmas movie. Unfortunately, I still haven’t found that diamond in the rough. Most Christmas movies these days are just kind of bland and terribly acted or the stories are just cheesy. I know those of you that read the movie reviews are waiting for Spider-Man No Way Home, and don’t say that you aren’t. I live in a highly conservative state where the only thing…
Look, I get it. We’re writing about Jussie Smollett which is keeping him fresh in everyone’s mind, but on occasion we writers do feel inclined to complete a story from start to finish. This may not be the last article about Smollett since we still have to find out what kind of sentencing he’s going to receive, but unless he serves actual jail time, no one is going to care. The biggest goal of this entire case was to put the liar on blast for faking a hate crime. It was to make it clear that the expenditure of government…
Months before Andrew Cuomo resigned back in August of 2021, it had become apparent that something inappropriate and potentially illegal had happened. The former New York Governor had a bad habit of touching women and saying things that are downright creepy coming from your boss. When you’re fully investigated by members of your own party, it’s pretty much the end for your career. If they won’t help you, who will? In Andrew Cuomo’s case the answer was his younger brother, one of the few stars of CNN, Chris Cuomo. At first it appeared that Chris told his bosses everything. He…
You may or may not have been affected by the great AWS (Amazon Web Servers) outage of December 7th, 2021, but thousands have; including a few large websites and their company’s online services. Several companies including Disney+, Amazon Prime, Amazon Music, Amazon’s Alexa, Ring, and dozens of others have reported outages. The ability to log on and use the various servers listed above has been mostly accessible to the majority of users across the United States depending on what they are trying to get into. For instance, Disney+ was being affected for a while, but it seems to be back…
Vaccine Mandate madness has already shown us the worst in our leaders all over the country. None more so than the state of California where lockdowns continue for anyone who isn’t rich and famous or even just rich and a politician. The state that used to be a capitalist destination has been abused by high taxes, corrupt politicians, obnoxious actors and fraudulent CEOs for the past two decades at least. It’s gotten so bad in fact that there has been something of an exodus as podcasters like Joe Rogan and companies like The Daily Wire fled to traditionally red states.…