The cast looks ace - if Burton can ease more towards Big Fish and less Alice then in might be enjoyable. 

Grindelwald: A Harry Potter Story

Farrell is always underrated. Even liked him in Daredevil, mainly because he seemed like he was having fun when everyone else was brooding boringly.

“it can be kind of hard to decide what constitutes a rom-com” - is it primarily a comedy? (not dramady) Does the central plot revolve around romance? I’d say that this rules out Prada as the central plot is about her succeeding at the magazine.

Yeah, odd though. Because it’s the Crain’s in the book that build it ,whereas they’re just living here now. 

I’ve just realised the genius of The Good Place. Great sitcoms are based around strong characters. But with strong characters come character development, which often ends up moving away from what made the original great (Modern Family, Scrubs etc have all gotten worse as their characters changed).

Think a lot of it was down to the 3D and promise of immersive filmmaking, which never really happened. It’s not a film that’s stuck around in the pop culture landscape like Titanic or Terminator. It’s not a film people go back to, to rewatch. 

Lovecraft is all about suggestion and hints. If you read the descriptions of things, they tend to be vague, a bit blurry around the outside, letting readers fill in their worst nightmares. You make it solid and that goes. 

This is different to The Dear Hunter, an ambient punk prog rock band, right?

Yeah, true. Remember listening to the commentaries of the older episodes talking about how they animated the shows, with things like strikes affecting the system. You could argue that in the early days everything just came together perfectly and that in the long term it just couldn’t last.

Think there’s always going to be that factor that the age people watched them will impact on what they see is the best ones. The people who were at the right age for the golden age are now the ones writing the articles. 

Remember reading that for Seinfeld, the writing process works by having people pitching three story ideas - each involving separate characters that have to intertwine. These were then run past Jerry and Larry. If approved, the writer would go away and work them up with the help of the writer’s room. Jerry and Larry…

So basically, if Netflix didn’t make it, they won’t keep it around. Make’s sense, though. Netflix had to licence shows to get subscribers, but in the future it’ll all end up being Netflix created series and movies only. Disney will pull all Disney, Marvel, Pixar and possibly Fox stuff, the BBC might find a way to not…

Yeah, Muse is an obvious one. I was going to mention early Radiohead as well to an extent. But Muse don’t really sit within any genre or sub genre, straddling a number (rock, prog, glam, electro, pop, even a bit of dance) much like Queen did.

With the Foos? Don’t really hear that but there you go.

Queen are an odd one. While they were huge and loved by many they were so unique that they didn’t seem to influence anyone directly. They sort of stood on their own. Also, there are a number of excellent documentaries about Queen available that I feel would tell you more than this film ever could.

Where is the hill? I mean, it’s called Hill House and the book constantly refers to the overbearing hill that looms behind the house.

Assume the bent neck lady is a reference to the person who hung herself in the books. 

I get the feeling the Hiram has lost his edge. He’s been kicked out his old stomping ground as is worried he doesn’t have it when it come to being a gangster anymore, so he takes it out on his family and their friends. I think Veronica will end up killing him. End of this season maybe. Either that or he’ll get a…

Dan in Real Life is a good autumn choice. Goonies for some reason (the rain at the start maybe). Also, You’ve got mail - a bouquet of pencils.