Part of it, I think, is that he wasn’t an asshole to every woman he worked with. Per people like Marti Noxon, he was supportive of his women writers. And number of his actresses became part of his close social circle and were made to feel special as a result. That seems to be part of how he fostered such a toxic work…

People in charge of toxic workspaces play the same “divide and conquer” game SMG is talking about. She was younger than most of the other cast when the show started (19 to their mid-20s), so she couldn’t hang out with them when they all went to the bar after work. Add in a boss who would praise her, knowing she…

Yeah, it’s basically the nominee for Best Picture for Us to Brag About Getting to See Early Because We Are Super Important. It’s how All the Money in the World got three nominations in 2017 despite not actually being finished when the Globes were announced: Ridley Scott screened an unfinished copy of the film…

The HFPA are notorious starfuckers. Anyone who’s a big name or a hot young up-and-comer is going to have a built-in advantage over even the most talented and critically lauded middle-aged TV actor.

Sigh. That’s why you don’t use real text as placeholder text.

You’re probably right. After my original post, I found a copy of an earlier draft of the screenplay in which Helen still plays a part, and it’s not great. (I won’t try to link it here, since Kinja tends to scramble hyperlinks, but you can find it by Googling “candyman 2021 screenplay.”) The movie literally just…

I love the first couple acts of the DaCosta movie, which promise a story that’s largely about the fact that a white lady stole the Candyman legend for herself. The scene early on where you think one of the characters is going to share the story of Candyman, but instead he says, “This is a story about a woman named…

I’m not suggesting that’s where the story ought to end, just that it would be an interesting challenge for Indy to confront, in the same way that the mystical nature of the Ark of the Covenant was an interesting challenge to Indy’s rational-scientific worldview. (At least until Temple of Doom retconned it so that Indy…

“It’s not just that they’re looking for something where there’s nothing up there . . .”

It’s actually even stupider than that, believe it or not. They accused Connor and the show of “queerbaiting” regarding Connor’s real-life sexuality, because they assumed he was gay but then saw photos of him holding hands with a girl.

I don’t think we have any particular basis to assume that Gray “doesn’t care” about representation because he chose, in one particular instance, to cast a non-Jewish actor in a Jewish role. Casting is always about balancing a complex array of artistic and practical considerations, and it doesn’t seem all that…

A hundred percent this. One of the best moments in the pilot episode is when Hannibal tries to copycat the Minnesota Shrike but Will immediately can tell that it’s a fake, because the Shrike has a perverse respect for his victims but Hannibal couldn’t hide the fact that he thought his victim was a pig. A series-long…

Yeah, it’s not the “I thought that Arya was queer” part that seems odd, because there are a number of ways she very well could be, whether she wanted to bang Gendry or not. What’s strange is Williams’s disbelief that Arya might end up romantically entangled with literally the only character she ever showed any…

It’s frustrating, because I thought the pilot episode was a shockingly faithful modern take on the central themes of Moore’s novel, illustrating how Ozymandias’s exceptionalist technocratic thinking just ended up turning Nixon’s oppressive right-wing daddy state into Redford’s stifling left-wing nanny state, allowing…

She recanted the accusations that Till grabbed her and made suggestive comments to her while inside her store, but the whistle was outside and witnessed by several other people, including members of Till’s family.

I wonder how FX feels about the fact that Ryan Murphy basically clipped the main title off the next season of American Crime Story and sold it to another network as a different show.

Shoot, thanks for the correction. I think their pronouns have been updated in the article since I first read it.

Likewise, Weird Al doesn’t have to seek permission of the songs he parodies, although I would argue that his work is much closer to infringing on principles we want protected by copyright than something like this movie

I had the same thought on seeing Kearney’s headshot, but it’s clear from her standup bit embedded above that (unlike Lauren Holt) she doesn’t have a remotely Aidy-like persona.

I would guess that a major part of any legal consideration would be whether the film is primarily using the Warner IP to comment on the Batman franchise itself, or using the IP mostly to convey commentary about something else, e.g., society or sexuality or what have you. Quoting a work in order to offer commentary on…