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Previously on Adam Riff™:

The late Chris Cornell's version of Guns N' Roses' "Patience" bows at No. 16 on Mainstream Rock Songs.

Also on Mainstream Rock Songs, Three Days Grace returns at No. 31 with its version of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know."

And on Alternative Airplay, Silversun Pickups debut at No. 40 with "Toy Soldiers," an amped-up take on Martika.

That's four tracks…

Five…

Adam Robot: The pandemic needs to end so Billie Joe Armstrong quits making these terrible cover songs that make it into constant radio rotation.

Six…seven?

How long is Stereogum's comp?

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Sudden Death but with a black hockey fan?

Jesse Freeman (Michael Jai White) is a former special forces officer and explosives expert now working a regular job as a security guard in a state-of-the-art basketball arena. Trouble erupts when a tech-savvy cadre of terrorists kidnap the team's owner and Jesse's daughter during opening night. Facing a ticking clock and impossible odds, it's up to Jesse to not only save them but also a full house of fans in this highly charged action thriller. [source]

No, Sudden Death but with basketball.

But there is no sudden death in basketball.

Welcome to Elam Ending?

Michael Jai White and Jean-Claude Van Damme are both in their 50s. They couldn't bring Darren McCord back?

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37. Mysterio Family Piñata (WWE Raw, 07 Sep 20)

Stray Observations

  • ♫: Lil Brudda Haitian – "Jax Out" (P-Valley, S01E08)
  • "Why Mane ain't come bring this his-self?"
    "'Cause Mane ass his trifling cousin babysit his ankle bracelet, and his cousin robbed a Krystal's." (P-Valley, S01E08)
  • "I can get you all types of deals, for real. Shit, I can see Nike in your future, boo." (P-Valley, S01E08)
  • ♫: Wendy Rene – "After Laughter [Comes Tears]" (P-Valley, S01E08)
  • Mayor Ruffin's red suit (P-Valley, S01E08)
  • "$200,000."
    "Ooh, Lord, that's more than my coochie's worth." (P-Valley, S01E08)
  • "Oh, I don't drink."
    "Well, what kind of hoe is you?"
    "Granmuva!"
    "I'm sorry. I forgot my home training. Hoe, what's your name?" (P-Valley, S01E08)
  • ♫: J. Alphonse Nicholson – "Screamin' Murda" (P-Valley, S01E08)
  • P-Valley Season Grade: B
  • "Smells like Tulsa." (Lovecraft Country, S01E04)
  • ♫: Rihanna – "Bitch Better Have My Money" (Lovecraft Country, S01E04)
  • ♫: Another Marilyn Manson song? (Lovecraft Country, S01E04)
  • Tic knocking out the siren (Lovecraft Country, S01E04)
  • Taxi Driver (The Boys, S02E04)
  • "Shockwave is just here to talk about Vought for Tots. I swear to God!"
    "What the fuck is Vought for Tots?"
    "It's a new fitness outreach for toddlers. Apparently, they're getting obese."
    "Well, shit, I fucking love fat kids! Use me!" (The Boys, S02E04)
  • "You're gonna have your own reality show on Vought+!" (The Boys, S02E04)
  • "I do want you to know, though, this was really hard for me, okay? It's nothing personal. Uh, we'll always be friends and, uh… [sigh] et cetera." (The Boys, S02E04)
  • "I fucking hate Ed Sheeran." (The Boys, S02E04)
  • "Wow. These are real hardballs, Maria Menounos." (The Boys, S02E04)
  • Homelander memes (The Boys, S02E04)
  • "You don't need 50 million people to love you. You need five million people fucking pissed. Emotion sells, anger sells. You have fans. I have soldiers." (The Boys, S02E04)
  • Homelander in lingerie (The Boys, S02E04)

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Paper Tiger
World Premiere
Writer/Director: Paul Kowalski

A widowed Asian immigrant mother in LA fears her schizophrenic teenaged son is turning into a school shooter.

The film follows an immigrant mother (Liu) with terminal cancer in the San Gabriel Valley who takes desperate measures to help her unstable teenage son as she uncovers his growing obsession with mass shootings.

Coincidence or based on the same story?


Americaville

In the mountains north of Beijing, Chinese citizens escape the stress and fast pace of city life and retreat to a gated community that replicates Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Residents adopt western traditions, playing American sports, hosting rodeos, experimenting with "traditional" American recipes, and celebrating U.S. Independence Day.

A mother in Americaville with COVID-19 takes desperate measures to help her teenage son as she uncovers his growing obsession with school shootings.

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Cinemascore, which typically polls theaters in Washington, New York, and California, is off-kilter, with the Nolan movie earning a B; the director typically earns a B+ or A. Remember, only 65% of the domestic marketplace is open, with auditorium capacities ranging from 25% to 40%. I drove four hours from LA to see Tenet in San Diego, CA at an AMC that had full COVID-19 safety protocols.

Tenet has a 79% Rotten Tomatoes audience score, and a 74% RT rating. That latter rating needs to be taken with a grain of salt, as Los Angeles and New York critics weren't cleared to see the movie in advance since the pic wasn't opening in their market. As such, media outlets in those markets had to tap freelancers to see the film, yielding a wide range of responses.

Advance tickets sales aren't a clear barometer, even though everyone is going ticketless in the COVID-19 era. Big presale hubs San Francisco, LA, and NYC are closed down. Recently, Movio told us that Tenet presales were outstripping Dunkirk and Interstellar in the US, UK and Australia.

Warners opted for an 11-day opening, starting in Canada. We heard that Tenet was No. 1 in Canada last weekend.

It's a solid number when you come to think about it, and the best grosses we've seen from a movie to date during the pandemic, higher than The New Mutants and Unhinged.

Also, we need to take into account that it is Labor Day weekend, and even though we didn't have a summer blockbuster season, audiences are distracted as usual with barbecues and beaches.

Drive-ins in Los Angeles were impacted by 100-degree heat.

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36. Singing Gills (The Boys, S02E02)

Stray Observations

  • "Oh, I pity you."
    "Pray tell, why I deserve such an expensive emotion from you?"
    "The folks who deserve your concern don't get it, and the folks you shouldn't be concerned about get to tell you what to do." (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • "Can you please pull your dick out of my ass, Andre?" (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • "Yeah, girl, he ate me out, IUD and all." (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • ♫: J. Alphonse Nicholson – "Mine" (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • "You know how these backwoods niggers are."
    "Corbin, your cracker side overriding." (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • "I just know you best not never, ever roll up into The Pynk again. You want your ass beat, you go on to your brothers." (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • "Nigga, where the barbecue at? 'Cause this some slaw, bro." (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • Naked rap (P-Valley, S01E07)


(P-Valley, S01E07)

  • "Without this club, I don't have nothing. And these girls… These girls… Ain't no orphanage for hoes." (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • "It got to look like the universe done bust a nut all over my body." (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • "This floss has missed your ass." (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • "Every bitch sharing they nigga with somebody else. If it ain't they mama, it's they baby mama."
    "But you got to want something more than that."
    "Ain't no love for ladies selling lust, 'cause that's what we give 'em first." (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • ♫: Big K.R.I.T. – "Country Shit [Remix feat. Ludacris and Bun B]" (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • ♫: Valerie June – "If And" (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • Pecan whiskey (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • "You sure you okay? If you want to talk about it, you know…"
    "If I talk about it, then I won't be okay. And tonight I needs to be okay, and all them people in there needs me to be okay. But tomorrow I probably won't be okay, and I will welcome your offer to talk at that time. But tonight I'm okay. Yep. I choose to be okay." (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • "I just don't understand why she won't just leave."
    "Because that's when they're most likely to kill you." (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • "No John Hancock, no hard cock." (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • "Don't run from me." (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • ♫: Queen Key – "Hey" (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • ♫: Labrinth – "Mount Everest" (P-Valley, S01E07)
  • ♫: Dorinda Clark-Cole – "Take It Back" (Lovecraft Country, S01E03)
  • Basketball player with a baby head (Lovecraft Country, S01E03)
  • ♫: Shirley Caesar – "Satan, We're Gonna Tear Your Kingdom Down" (Lovecraft Country, S01E03)
  • "You know you can't just go around killing white women." (Lovecraft Country, S01E03)
  • Alden Ehrenreich (The Boys, S02E01)
  • Chris Hansen (The Boys, S02E01)
  • Fresca (The Boys, S02E01)
  • LOLTV (The Boys, S02E01)
  • "If you're the fucking reason why I can't finish that Vermont country dollhouse, I will fucking end you." (The Boys, S02E01)
  • The Elite shirt (The Boys, S02E02)
  • Goo Goo Dolls (The Boys, S02E02)
  • "Fuck this world for confusing nice with good." (The Boys, S02E02)
  • "Pippi Longstocking would bite a 'D.'" (The Boys, S02E02)
  • Fassbinder Metallica logo shirt (The Boys, S02E03)
  • "Postmating Papa John's isn't gonna help." (The Boys, S02E03)

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Bookending next week on Lifetime:

POOL BOY NIGHTMARE (LIFETIME)
9/7/20

Gale has a brief affair with pool cleaner Adam, but quickly turns down his continued advances. Insulted at being rejected, Adam starts dating Gale's high school age daughter Becca, using her as an unsuspecting pawn in a twisted game of revenge. Stars Jessica Morris, Ellie Darcey-Alden, Tanner Zagarino.

DERANGED GRANNY (LIFETIME)
9/12/20

Barbara finds her last hope to be a grandmother when her son, Ethan, falls for Kendall, a divorcée with children. At first kept at arm's length, Barbara quickly infiltrates the family by using devious tactics to win over Kendall's kids. Unannounced visits escalate to murder as Barbara will do anything to protect her relationship with her grandchildren. With her life in danger, Kendall must outsmart her mother-in-law to save her children and expose Barbara for who she really is. Stars Wendie Malick, Amanda Righetti, Josh Ventura, Dave Baez.