The "Harry and Hermione share an ambiguously romantic, ambiguously sexual dance to a Nick Cave song" scene would have been greatly improved by using "Trash" by Suede instead.

The Joker killing Robin is one of the big clichés of comics now, like "Gwen Stacey dies." What "Return of the Joker" did to that premise was arguably more disturbing than the original.

Given that it takes place in the UK, the Weird Sisters in the film are played by Britpop and alt-rock legends from Pulp and Radiohead.
"Fun" fact: J. K. Rowling's description of the band's mix of hard rock and British folk instruments, including violins and bagpipes, is inspired by actual band Slade, particularly their…

See, I'm not sure you're wrong. I think "Agents of Shield" was unsustainable because you can't do prime-time action-adventure space opera as well and as sustainably as you can do it in films or in short-form miniseries. You have to lean on a different genre, like Buffy did, with trappings of space opera to hold it…

How many Gastly candy do I need to get a Dengar?

My first exposure to ANY Jefferson, Airplane or Starship, was discovering a cassette of "Nuclear Furniture" by Jefferson Starship. The outlandish name and garish neon cover art led me to purchase it for 99 cents.
It's not a great album, but it has a really out-there blend of New Wave arena rock and hippie mysticism…

Did you just reference Kickpuncher? And me without a Community notification…

I guess it's perspectives: theatre people see Jon Leguizamo as a great professional storyteller and one-man-show performer who's made terrible movies almost exclusively; mainstream people see Jon Leguizamo as a terrible movie actor. (See "Ghetto Klown Live" for an example of what he's capable of onstage.)

Actors who did not play Joker who should play/should have played Joker…
Live-action: I've been watching Season 2 of Bloodline, and I think Ben Mendelssohn would be a fantastic Joker in one of the character's more subdued incarnations. Meanwhile, on that same show, John Leguizamo would have made an interesting Joker at…

DC put out "Greatest Stories Ever Told" TPBs in the 1990s that collect representative stories from 1940-1980 to show the evolution of their signature characters. "Greatest Joker Stories" was great, because it showed the parallel evolution of the character alongside Batman from horror-inspired vigilante to traditional…

And there's always the drink called "suicide," where you mix every soft drink available and then try to chug.

It was his nickname back when he was a street punk with the Jets.

I classify this as "stories ABOUT a book that are about a little more than the book itself," like Man of La Mancha. Maybe it has to do with the intrinsic difficulties of a straight adaptation as noted above, but I feel like there was also a little bit of wanting to explore not only the things that make the book…

"I am not throwing away my… vote
I am not throwing away my… vote
Hey, ya'll, I'm just like my country
I'm fucked up and I'm ugly
And I'm not throwing away my vote."

Dudley Moore's "Arthur" is a fantastic snapshot of probably the last moment when you could make a movie like "Arthur," where a chronic alcoholic is enabled by most people around him, is perpetually debauched, and is not expected to change his ways too much. The short-lived musical adaptation (written by the creators…

The reason that song is so… awkward in terms of construction and lyrics is the train-wreck collision of two pop songwriters writing two different songs, but then producers said "let's Frankenstein these two songs together and make just one." The songs had similar genres and meters and rhythms, but are very clearly two…

All actors know the frustration of having a good resume, but knowing your resume will never be as good as Wishbone's. That guy's played ALL the lead roles.

And now they play brothers on "BoJack Horseman," so things seem to have gone okay.

The Lippa version of "The Wild Party" is a surrealist musical to a certain extent; it's based WAY more on the gleefully lurid, surreal nightmare of March's original novella than the LaChiusa version, which is period-appropriate but turns the decadent madness into an extended meditation on the legacy of racism in…

But isn't "keep working, in the hopes of at least a cult classic or sleeper hit" better than "figure out where you top out, and then quit?"
If composers had quit where they topped out, Sondheim would have arguably stopped after either Follies or Sweeney Todd, depriving audiences of masterful but ultimately secondary…