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One of the worst movies I ever saw when I was a kid was a slimy, worm-ridden English horror film called Witchfinder General. I absolutely hated everything about it, it made me feel hollow and cold inside. It also made me angry for reasons I was too young to understand. I’d seen it at night […]
You know you done screwed up when you have to apologize to an entire country. Ubisoft has issued a non-apology apology to the nation of Japan for a game they have in late development. Not a group, not a subset of otaku, not an ethnic minority. They got on their knees before all of the […]
DENIED!!! Unless she settles, this case goes to discovery. Now, I’ve got to clean the drool off my keyboard. From That Park Place: “In court documents obtained by That Park Place, U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett has denied the request by the Walt Disney Company to dismiss Gina Carano’s lawsuit. with Gina Carano and […]
I’m definitely torn on this one. Scavenger’s Reign is an animated series that was absolutely nowhere on my radar. Not even a blip. I blundered across a TikTok of it while I was looking for something else and decided I needed to check it out. Scavenger’s Reign is a product of the Covid Lockdown. Warner […]
This is an interesting development. Safra Catz has resigned from the Disney Board of Directors. She’s been there for only six years and that’s nowhere near mandatory retirement for a board member. I suppose I should post Disney’s boilerplate statement: “Disney CEO Bob Iger said in a statement, “Throughout her tenure on Disney’s board of […]
Is Gatwa Out? …as the Doctor, I mean There was an interesting little article from That Park Place: “A new report claims that The Walt Disney Company is seriously contemplating exiting its business relationship with the BBC and Bad Wolf Studios and leaving Doctor Who following the most recent season that posted the worst viewership […]
99% of the four unions that represent Disneyland California workers have voted to authorize a strike. From The Vulture: “On Friday, the Disney Workers Rising Bargaining Committee, which comprises four different unions representing 14,000 Disneyland park employees, released a statement declaring that 99% of their members have authorized a strike, meaning they would not show up to […]
(This is absolutely the last one, I… I have to move on) Story. “A story succeeds for fails in the style of its telling.” You’ve heard me say that a thousand times. Less frequently, but just as important I often ask, “Knowing how the story ends, would you want to read it again?” No one […]
We were totally scammed and we loved it! It was easily the greatest ending to a television comedy in history. I never even heard the lines I was laughing so hard. It was without question a “you had to be there to understand” moment. There had been all kinds of rumors going around about how […]
(I really hadn’t planned to make this a three-parter but I had to stop and put together a valedictory for Bob Newhart. The third part should probably be up tomorrow at the usual time.) The Star Wars Lore fifty-car-pile-up. Why make a prequel? There’s rarely a good reason for it. There are exceptions of course. […]
(I have to break this into two parts, I can’t examine this much bad in only 1500 words) This is the LucasFilm project where the last of the superfans, The Star Wars Advocates finally walked away. The opposite of love is not hatred, it’s indifference. After this, they don’t care anymore. It’s not just that […]
2015 was the year that Bob Iger made the decisions that set Disney on a course to oblivion. It was the year he made the choices that changed it irrecoverably from Walt Disney’s company to Bob Iger’s. Several factors converged that year that would turn Disney into the trainwreck it is today. A lot of […]
It’s ironic that Batman’s boyhood hero was Zorro. The Mark of Zorro was the movie that little Bruce Wayne had talked his parents into taking him to the night of their murder. The irony is that Zorro is an Outlaw hero whereas Batman is every inch a Detective hero. The Detective hero is an American invention. During […]
Shannen Doherty has lost her fight with breast cancer. Given the events of the weekend, it’s all too easy to overlook the passing of one of the great genre actresses of Generation X and that would be a shame. Doherty started out as a child actress in the early 1980s. Her first appearance was in […]
Shill to the stars Grace Randolph, the most reliably pro-LucasFilm Shill channel with almost but not quite a million subs, has suddenly done an about face and absolutely dragged the latest episode of the Acolyte across broken concrete. She could not dredge up enough bile and vitriol. It went from absolutely amazing to a There […]
The suppression algorithms have been fired up. Open up a private browsing window and type in Neil Gainman on YouTube. Take a look at the results, you can see for yourself whats happening. Neil was a pioneer in Wokism, he was writing about mentally ill defectives long before they became a protected class. He is […]
Noted genre actress Shelly Duvall has passed today at the age of seventy five due to complications resulting from diabetes. One of acting’s little secrets is that it is mostly genetics more than anything else. What bag of tricks did fate leave in your cradle as an infant? Was it the emotional vampirism so necessary […]
REPOST: 7/11/24 There is zero interest in Falcon America Brave New World. But it does look like Disney/Marvel thinks they have something that won’t look like a total joke if they put it in theaters. Since the Marvel brain trust was fired and replaced with DEI quotas there is very little hope for it. Feige […]
The Acolyte There’s a number of things I’d rather do than get caught up on The Acolyte but given the interest around it I have little choice. It has managed the impressive feat of stirring up the kind of hatred that hasn’t surrounded a Star Wars project since The Last Jedi. While The Rise of […]
#TheDarkHeraldWasRight As I said, “Redstone is hot to sell and Skydance is hot to buy, so this is now just negotiating.” The walking away from the table was just another negotiating ploy. Turns out that Shari Redstone was trying to get to the price she wanted, and she appears to have gotten there. Skydance and […]
My heart! Oh, my poor wounded heart! Kotaku Down Under is no more! Won’t someone please think of the children? If I was a better person, I’d be trying to come up with some kind of emotion tangential to empathy. After all, Kotaku wasn’t always this steaming, radioactive pile. When it first launched this was […]
At least not by 1970s TV standards. Here is the first appearance of the Justice League on TV. It was in 1979, Wonder Woman was still in production and Lynda Carter wasn’t in this. Lynda Carter felt she was too good to appear in this thing. There is no part II. The guy doing this […]
WARNING THE FOLLOWING IS GRAPHIC I really didn’t want to write this article but it’s clear that the media has been given orders to protect Neil Gaiman. It’s been so long since I first picked up a Sandman comic book that I honestly don’t remember which story I came in on. Preludes and Nocturnes had […]
“Removing his helmet reveals himself to be none other than Sean Connery or an actor of equal but cheaper stature.” This joke, made on a golf course is more or less how got Time Bandits got greenlit. The Joke was made to Sean Connery himself, and he liked it. It was the start of trend […]
The year was 1989. Young Idiot College Student Herald was nosing through The Merchant of Venus when he came upon a shrink-wrapped paperback that was at least twenty years old judging from the acid rock cover art. The title was The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum. I snatched it off the shelf greedily. I had […]
“WE ARE SORRY BUT WE ARE UNABLE TO CONTINUE OUR ADVENTURE ON TIANA’S…” Tiana’s Biayu Adventure is now officially a black eye for Disney. The beloved Splash Mountain has been reimagined into a ride that is, to put it mildly, “troubled.” It’s breaking down constantly. Emergency evacuations are now a daily occurrence, the animatronics, what […]
AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all. We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each […]
In 1990 Universal Studios Orlando opened up. The idea was to use it as a combination of movie studio and theme park attraction. Michael Eisner immediately set about making MGM/Disney Studios in Walt Disney World. Both were a failure. at least as far as the movie studio thing went, it turned out to be a […]
I was counting on the new James O’Keefe leak to provide me with material tonight. I’m afraid he let me down in a pretty serious way. The Indian guy O’Keefe nailed is so low-level he may as well have been interviewing a gate guard at Disneyland. My typical reader has a more knowledgeable opinion about […]
I was honestly kind of surprised when Brett Cooper spoke up on Leslye Headland’s behalf. It turns out she had worked for Headland on a show called Heathers that Paramount buried for political reasons. It was only loosely based on the 1988 movie. In this TV version, the Heathers are “body-positive queers,” and they are […]
I was honestly, surprised by last week’s episode of Doctor Who. It actually evoked an emotional response from me. Hatred. Disney Doctor Who dragged the Pyramids of Mars through the slime just by them touching it. That is what kicked off this list in case you are wondering. Seeds of Doom This one is the […]
How does O’Keefe do it? Well, actually that’s pretty easy. First, you study the senior executives and try to determine who is the most vulnerable to what bait, and likely why they might be loose-tongued. A white male executive at Disney who appears to be overdue for promotion and is single, works nicely. By now […]
A friend recently asked about Doctor Who stories for his son. While the current Doctor Who is unwatchable pig vomit, there was a time when the BBC made a deliberate effort to overcome any of the shortcomings of a production budget by concentrating on the quality of the story and the actors’ performances. The Tom […]
“The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own. I don’t think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined them and twisted them; and if they are to live at all, they have to live like other living creatures.” That pretty much describes most […]