Dark comedy is probably the way to go here, because if they go "heartfelt women's drama" they're going to get the inevitable "book was better, movie is a poor man's Girl Interrupted" criticism.
Although, in a "Girl Interrupted" tangent, the ideal Esther/Sylvia to me has always been a younger Elisabeth Moss.

Much like Batman, the Addams Family have been through several iconic permutations, pretty much all of which are still prominent in pop culture. Ask someone "who are the Addamses to you?" and you're just as likely to hear "John Astin and Caroyn Jones" as you are "Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston." Theatre people, too,…

Mad is gleefully and intentionally lowest common denominator. I really don't think it's as much intended for junior high kids as it is for adults to chuckle and reconnect with their junior high selves.
My father is a physical therapist and PA. When people are in the hospital recovering from surgeries, they often…

You know they're still doing them? I pass them sometimes at Sam's Club or Costco- big racks of Scooby Doo meets Kiss and The Flintstones-John Cena Team Up Special.

This tour fucks.

They all wish it could be Christmas every day.

That's complicated… name aside, The Protomen saga draws only vaguely on the essential idea of Mega Man, mixing in elements of other 80s-era dystopian sci-fi fiction as well (most notably Terminator and Streets of Fire). It's more a mashup than a gritty reboot.

He's like Frankie Muniz only weird. Muniz and Culkin both have tons of money, few serious demons (currently), and no real ambition to get back into show biz, so they have become dilletantes. But while Muniz follows his relatively conventional if expensive hobbies of playing in punk bands and racing cars, Culkin runs…

I associate Pamela Adlon with things that aren't guilty pleasures, but are deeply endearing and veer between brilliance and critical scorn. Californication may be where I know her best, but King of the Hill and Adventure Time had a similarly devoted fanbase and gradually shifting critical opinions (sometimes more than…

Only if she's about to become the Joker.

There's a reason the Potter fandom is associated with social activism in a way few if any other fandoms are.

I'm not gonna post this as a True Showbiz Tale because I already alluded to it in a previous one, but when I was swing on "Rock of Ages," the male lead lost his voice at one show and I was pit-singing for him from offstage (or hidden onstage when I had a character part to play). Unfortunately, he had never learned the…

Priyanka Chopra cameos as Fatima, a nursing student who, desperate to pay her bills and build a better life for herself and her young daughter, has become a stripper, concealing this fact from her daughter in foster care with the manipulative Jondrett family, who operate foster-care scams under a multitude of assumed…

Dubba dum, dubba dum…
Moon over Parma, bring my love to me tonight,
Guide her to Cleveland underneath your silvery light,
We're going bowlin', so don't lose her in Solon;
Moon over Parma tonight!
Dubba dubba dubba dum! (tie flips)

There's a phrase that cartoon stereotypes of terrorists scream, one which I will refrain from typing for the obvious reasons of not wanting to be on a list. However, I feel like the rising political turmoil is going to lead to a corresponding rise in nihilism, and it may not be long before disenfranchised Americans…

I'm pretty sure King is Kylo Ren.

Colbert is trying to remind us (and maybe remind himself) that he is an actual human being, capable of complexities and contradictions. COLBERT the witty but witless delusional clown was an exhausting monopersonality; Colbert had to force open cracks that did not entirely fit the character to allow aspects of his…

He loses points for not using the ACTUAL beloved quote on equality that came from a Pokémon movie. Much like "With great power comes great responsibility," that quote is already transcending its beginnings in pop culture genre fiction and taking on a life of its own.

Racial representation reboot politics are gonna be a big thing in the upcoming two decades, as both reboots and racelifts happen more often.
Take this imaginary pitch for instance: "Victor Hugo's Les Miserables gets a modern day update in STREETS. Fifteen years ago, the paths of black holdup artist Jumbo Jean and black…

The closet isn't going anywhere, but jokes about "coming out of the closet wearing something fabulous" probably will.