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Steven Spielberg Mercilessly Guns Down Triceratops, Receives a Tongue-Lashing From the Internet For Doing So

Being that this is 2020 and you have Facebook, you’ve likely heard by now about that Texas cheerleader who posted several photos of herself alongside endangered animals she had shot while on an African safari. Depending on how much of an animal lover you are, you might have even already started a Facebook page aimed at killing Ms. Jones in response to her little hunting trip, because the intricacies of Hammurabi’s Code were lost on you long ago.

In any case, Jay Branscomb attempted to poke fun at our cultural filleting of Ms. Jones earlier this week, posting the above photo of Steven Spielberg from the set of Jurassic Park to his Facebook page with the caption, “Disgraceful photo of recreational hunter happily posing next to a Triceratops he just slaughtered. Please share so the world can name and shame this despicable man.”

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That Adam Sandler-Kevin James Video Game Film Will Also Star Jane Krakowski

This is a rough one. Even though we have reported it before, we must now revisit the sublime unpleasantness that is a Kevin James-Adam Sandler video game apocalypse film called Pixel. The premise of the film is that Sandler is a video game expert who helps the Earth ward off an attack from prominent video game characters. Kevin James plays the president. YES. I’M AWARE OF WHAT I JUST WROTE!

It’s a mildly interesting premise before you read the words “Adam Sandler and Kevin James.” Then it just gets terrible. To its credit, it did manage to snag a wildly entertaining Jane Krakowski as the First Lady, so maybe there’s some hope for this film. As mentioned earlier, it also stars Peter Dinklage.

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The Greatest Travel Movies Of All Time

There’s something special about a great travel movie that can make a person want to hit the road in search of adventure. If you’re in the mood for a travel movie that will change your life or just give you a long night of laughs, check out the ones on this list. Be warned, there are plenty of spoilers ahead.

The Beach

Director: Danny Boyle

Year: 2000

Notable Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel York, Virginie Ledoyen

Originally a novel written by Alex Garland, the movie version of The Beach managed to maintain most of the story’s shiftlessness, paranoia, and struggle for authenticity.

It’s primarily a movie about people searching for a place in the world that hasn’t already been over-crowded by tourists. Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio) gets a map from a deranged person at a seedy Bangkok hotel. The map promises exactly what Richard has been searching for: a place unspoiled by humans.

When he and a few friends find the hidden island, they discover that it’s almost Eden… except for the heavily armed pot growers who barely tolerate the beach-living hippies.

The Beach does more than give viewers the thrill of travel. It questions what we expect to get out of travel and whether that thrill still exists in a well-mapped world. You can watch The Beach for free at 123movies here.

Easy Rider

Director: Dennis Hopper

Year: 1969

Notable Actors: Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda

Easy Rider explores the American cultural landscape during the 1960s. The story follows Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper), two nonconformists willing to give anything a try as they ride their motorcycles from Southern California to New Orleans.

Along the way, they encounter all types of people, including communal hippies who spend their days smoking pot and living freely, rednecks who harass them, and a hard-drinking lawyer who gets them out of a small town jail.

By the movie’s end, it’s obvious that living free means living on the razor’s edge, a place where you can die at any moment.

National Lampoon’s Vacation

Director: Harold Ramis

Year: 1983

Notable Actors: Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Randy Quaid, Anthony Michael Hall

Follow the Griswold family as they drive from Chicago to Walley World, a theme park located on the West Coast. This is one of the funniest travel movies ever made. Chevy Chase’s performance will make you wonder how the actor lost his comedic edge for so many years.

During the Griswold’s road trip, they encounter plenty of colorful characters and get themselves into outrageous situations. Anything that could go wrong does go wrong:

Clark (Chevy Chase) accidentally kills the family pooch The family gets lost in the desert An elderly relative dies midway through the trip The final insult breaks Clark’s already fragile psyche: when they reach Walley World, they find that the park is closed. Clark loses his mind, buys a gun, and forces a security guard to let his family into the empty park. They get to enjoy the rides for a while. But the cops eventually show up, prompting Clark to give a moving speech that somehow keeps them all out of jail.

Up

Director: Pete Docter and Bob Peterson

Year: 2009

Notable Actors: Edward Asner, Bob Peterson, Joran Nagai

Up is a heartwarming story about an old man, Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner), who refuses to leave his home even though a real estate developer constantly threatens to force him out. Throughout his life, Carl has been a homebody unwilling to take many risks. His wife, however, always encouraged him to take chances. They saved for decades so they could afford an adventurous vacation.

After his wife passes away, Carl loses interest in life.

During an argument with a construction worker, Carl accidentally punches a worker. This forces him to move into a retirement home. Carl refuses to give up, though, so he fills a large number of balloons with helium so that his house will float away.

Unbeknownst to him, a young Boy Scout named Russell (Jordan Nagai) is on his property. The balloons take Carl and Russell to South America, where they meet a pack of talking dogs and their master, a world traveler whom Carl idolizes.

Things turn sour between them when Carl’s hero tries to catch an exotic bird in Russell’s care. The adventure turns into a race to save the bird, their own lives, and the spirit of living freely.

Encounters at the End of the World

Director: Werner Herzog

Year: 2007

Notable Actors: Werner Herzog, Scott Rowland, Stefan Pashov

Werner Herzog has made plenty of documentaries and movies in exotic places, but none of them have the charm, humor, and adventure of Encounters at the End of the World. In this film, Herzog and his crew travel to Antarctica to meet people living outside of social norms.

The team meets plenty of interesting characters, including animal researchers, a scientist studying neutrinos, a diver with an extensive sci-fi movie collection, an a pipefitter who has a hand anomaly that, he says, proves he is Aztec royalty.

It’s an interesting look at the kind of people who choose to live in a place as frozen and harsh as Antarctica. It also has magnificent images that will make viewers yearn to visit one of the planet’s coldest places. While watching the film, Antarctica seems like a viable vacation plan.

The Motorcycle Diaries

Director: Walter Salles

Year: 2004

Notable Actors: Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna

When Che Guevara was a 23 years old, he and his friend Alberto Granado decided to travel across South America on motorcycles. At the time, Che was known as Ernesto Guevara de la Sema. He wasn’t a revolutionary leader. He was a med student with one semester of study left.

The Motorcycle Diaries uses Che’s journal entries to explore the difficult relationship he had with his friend, the difficulties of traveling with little money on old motorcycles, and, perhaps most importantly, how Che learns from Communists that he meets in Chile. It’s a journey that changed the young man’s life forever. It’s also an entertaining movie about adventure and self-discovery.

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The Parents Television Council Think That Risque Cable Channels Should Be Premium Channels

God forbid something I don’t agree with is on the TV package I purchased! Fortunately, the Parents Television Council has a solution. Only package the shows THEY agree with, then make everyone else pay extra for the shows that the PTC doesn’t like or agree with.

It merits noting that they reiterated this stance after last week’s Sons of Anarchy. Because my impressionable children are always hijacking my remote without my knowledge and using it to watch violent biker programming. My kids are the worst. BUT I CAN’T CONTROL THEIR VIEWING!!!

So rather than put the onus of monitoring their children’s activities on parents, the PTC would like people to pay extra for depraved devil networks like FX and probably every other channel you watch.

Of course, we’re only getting attention to the group’s sideways crusade to be offended by whatever’s in front of them, so to counteract that lift, let’s offer up a criticism.

Nobody cares what the PTC thinks, because it is a group of lonely, purposeless people.

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The Resurgence Of Bill Cosby Rape Allegations May Sorta Hurt His Upcoming NBC Family Sitcom

After Hannibal Buress called out Bill Cosby for the hypocrisy of acting as a shepherd to the black community while having endured more than a dozen rape allegations, Bull Cosby has been a topic of conversation for past acts, both previously reported and possibly a new one.

And it’s likely going to affect his upcoming NBC sitcom.

Here’s why: Networks don’t normally like to base flagship sitcoms around people who have been formally accused of sexual assault more than like, I don’t know, two times. After that, some red flags start to go up.

Well, those flags are up, and while no new legal action has been started,  Cosby has refused to address the allegations at all. And while that might be a sound legal strategy, it likely won’t endear him to the American public, certainly not enough to make him a likable TV personality.

No word from Cosby or NBC yet, but I would bet this situation gets worse for Cosby before it gets better, and NBC eventually jumps ship to bring us like a semi-autobiographical series on Dan Cortese or something.