I hope someone cut Mary Robinette Kowal a cheque because I’m getting really strong vibes of THE CALCULATING STARS.

If we’re going to bring up Taxi Driver - Scorsese and Paul Schrader didn’t throw themselves a self-pity party when they got exactly the kind of reaction they were looking for. If anyone out there needs to harden the fuck up, it’s folks in the arts who should be careful what they go trolling for and learn the…

Ex-fucking-cuse me? Didn’t notice Phillips bitching and whining about the Venice Film Festival when those “critics and festival attendees” showed up to one of the best slots in the joint, or when he was handed the Festival’s top prize.

Long as he’s got the whole slapstick comedy Nazis thing out of his system, I’m not fussed either way.

Just as a matter of interest, has anyone told this smirking xenophobic posh git that The Hulk was created by first-generation American children of Jewish immigrants from Europe? You know, the very people who, if their parents had landed in England instead of the United States, he’d be rather keen to hound into…

YES! And in his best work, King had two things his imitators never really got - his intense sense of place and ability ti draw characters you actually cared about before he starts to torture them. :) Hell, back in the day there were plenty of writers who could do the gross out stuff just as well as he could, if not…

You’re right about the book - don’t get me wrong, I love King and have been popping his books like literary Oxy for longer than I care to admit. But, damn, an awful lot of his books would be improved with a blue pencil edit by Freddy Kruger. Though to be fair to It — one thing the book does which the films don’t: It…

And, let’s be honest, Coppola originally did the television cut because he was desperately trying to raise money anyway he could to prevent Apocalypse Now from falling over and crushing everyone involved. I also don’t think it really worked — smoothing out the structure completely futzed up the pacing and flow,…

Yeah, I don’t think they’ve got enough money to run the risk of Jack Nicholson lawyering up. Much easier to stick to digital grave robbing.

That’s the vibe given by the final trailer for the film, a sequel to The Shining that works to channel both the King novels and the Stanley Kubrick film that King famously distanced himself from.

Oh my god this movie’s gonna suck. I can already tell it’s gonna be full of magic shite.

You know people can actually think - and care about - more than one thing at a time. Oh, and you know Amazon’s casual disregard for contracts extends to shitty and exploitative labour practices, aggressive corporate tax avoidance on a global scale & environmental mayhem?

Exactly! I have a funny feeling that if you sign a supply contract with Amazon, breaking it then saying “Whoops, shit happens move along” is NOT going to cut it.

Uh, what is ‘anti-competitive about a release date? I’d be rather more concerned about Amazon, yet again, thinking honoring contracts is for the little people.

Indeed. I used to work for a store where Funko Pops are a HUGE part of the business - and the contract with our supplier for convention-exclusive Pops meant we couldn’t even post images on our website before the embargo date.  And if you broke it -- well, your competitors will thank you for the business.

Here’s the reality check though: If I was a Sony shareholder or creditor, I’d burn the idiot who signed that deal at the stake because you’re supposed to be working to make it rain dollar bills on me not Disney.

TBH, I’m siding with anyone who will tell Disney to fuck off, eat shit and drop dead. Those people are an endangered species.

No idea, but if they’ve both still got films on their contracts?  Doesn’t really matter what the hell they say, does it.

They were credited as “consultants” on the second season of Sense8 and co-wrote the final episode with Lana Wachowski.

I don’t know if you’d never EVER do such a thing, but like most things in life it’s a really good idea not to until you really know what you’re doing and you’re fairly confident it’s not going to land in the lap of someone whose first reaction is “Who the fuck is this arsehole poser?”