Suit Me Up Uncle Alfred!

https://youtu.be/P_4DkaRGaSE   PoeTV, a video site where I have posted for 15 years as "John Holmes Motherfucker"   (It's a Tarentino reference, okay?) used to have ads for Wolf Urine from Amazon.  So one day I decided to try a web search for wf

. If I start posting reviews here, and someone ever reads them, they'll learn very quickly that I am a critic who likes things, even things that other people hate. I like Batman vs. Superman . I LOVE the female Ghostbusters , and The Last Jedi is my favorite Star Wars movie.   But I really hate The Pentaverate , a Netflix episodic comic fantasy about a secret society influencing world events in which Michael Myers plays... sorry, I meant to say Mike Myers. How did I never notice before just now that the SNL actor and the fictional psycho killer have the same name!??    Start again.  In The Pentaverate, Mike Myers, the real-life, non-murdering actor, plays most of the characters, and it feels like they're all desperately struggling for the spotlight.  In Austin Powers and its sequels, the main part of Myers' performance (Fat Bastard notwithstanding)  is built around two characters, Austin Powers and Dr. Evil, opposites who are ironic comments on each other.  Austin P

In Batman v Superman, Lois Lane saves Superman from being killed by Batman.  In Justice League, Lois saves Batman from being killed by Superman.  Not a coincidence.    We're being reminded of what could happen if Lois wasn't around.

As I told my friends at the time,   Joel Schumacher's   Batman and Robin was "so bad I saw it twice.", but I've seen it many times since then.  I consider it to be the return of so-bad-it's-good cinema.  In fact, it's so terrible, it's awesome!  And this is probably the worst/best part.  Kindly old Uncle Alfred, or maybe just his "brain algorithms", has designed a Batgirl costume that makes his hot teen-aged niece look like an Irving Klaw latex fetish model.  It has nipples!

Zack Snyder's Justice League, streaming on HBO Max since late March, is pretty good, but it's also four hours long, and sometimes it's really slow, because Zack don't give a fuck.   Snyder makes superhero movies that are  difficult, and I guess I respect that, but there are very few four hour movies that can be considered required viewing.  Far be it from me to criticize anyone's decision to pass on this. However, if you're going to see it, I think you should see it in black and white.   HBO is also streaming the "Justice is Gray" edition.   Weird title, but for me, the gorgeous black and white transforms a sometimes painful four hour watch into pure comfort TV.  I've watched it over and over.   Everything that is ponderous and overdone about Snyder's style is muted, somehow easier to take.   The slow pace seems stately, and dignified. Now, I'm older than a lot of fans.  I spent the first twelve years of my life (1958-1970) in front of a b