Someone was talking about seeing a classic film for the first time recently. She said she already knew the plot points from the countless pop culture references, though she hadn't seen the film before. The original came off feeling derivative as a result. Seeing classic films as intended in theaters would require…

It reminded me of Laura Ingraham at the Republican National Convention ending her speech with a stiff-armed Nazi salute to the cheering crowd. That couldn't have been more overt.

This reminds me of that other film trope, hot girls and bows-and-arrows. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen a young woman in film or TV series wielding a bow. Go back to that 1972 film 'Deliverance', though. The scene where a future Trump voter gets shot in the back (ironically by John Voight). Nothing…

I'm past 60. Practical VCR recording didn't show up until circa 1980 and cable was in its infancy back then. A lot of the Biggest & Best films you HAD to see in the cinema or you risked never seeing them at all! (except for ABC airing 'Monday Night Movies'.) I was very young but I recall seeing 'Lawrence of Arabia' in…

I'm old enough to have seen it in a theater (age 10). Mary Poppins was a freakin' mess. I recall even at age 10 noting there was no discernible plot to follow. The movie was comprised of barely related scenes tenuously stitched together. Watching Dick Vandyke dancing for 10 minutes straight while making goofy faces…

It wasn't.

I recall an interview long ago. CBC told the writers that they're mandated to provide 'Canadian content' in their show so the writers replied "How about a couple dumb guys in parkas drinking beer?' (or words to that effect). The CBC said yup, sure sounds Canadian to us!
I've been watching a lot of Korean TV lately, I…

Liv herself complained for much of season 1, I recall, that he sex life was shot now that she's a zombie. She's gleefully jumped the bones of several undead suitors since then. Liv has a 'type'. She does like 'em beefy.

In "The Manchurian Candidate" the VP nominee Iselin was supposed to jump to his feet and give a rousing speech with the dead Republican presidential candidate in his arms. Which would of course sweep him to victory. Barcus may not have planned the shooting himself but his handlers probably did… by TV conspiracy theory…

Awh, the guy who played the character 'Beans' from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has a role in the episode. The CW is a family.

Young folks today simply would not believe just how effed-up the 70s were. Stats on everything from rapes to murders to robberies, car thefts, even fatal traffic accidents were through the roof. We live in a comparative utopia today… well, almost.

Months ago I read somewhere that there were some eighty projects currently in the works related to comic books. I suspect that number has climbed past 100 by now.

As an aside, I just finished *trying* to watch that show 'Great News'. Oh wow, I feel it may have shortened my life trying to watch it. To compare the show to eating Cheetos would be doing Cheetos a disservice.

I get the impression some shows are designed for an overseas audience. Education levels in the USA wouldn't exactly make a show set in renaissance Italy a sure bet. But there's streaming to everywhere else from Albania to Zanzibar to consider. Like with movies, the US is starting to be considered a secondary market.

Its usually the 'innocuous' ones that are the most pernicious. Selling an unspoken skewed worldview. I recall when NCIS was on the hunt for a ruthless master assassin sent to the US to cause mayhem from… Venezuela! Ooooh, America's gotta watch out for them scary Venezuelans!

I don't understand why Fey is worshiped as a deity. That other show she produces 'Great News' is really kind'a wretched but reviewers are all giggly "Its a Tina Fey product! I LOVE Tina Fey!"

No, its not, really.

Mocking youthful idealism, belittling feminism, dismissing the value of academic education? Are you sure you weren't reviewing 'Last Man Standing'?

I'm not sure about the concept behind doing films based on old TV shows that your core audience is too young to have seen. A 20 year old was just 3 years old when that show ended. Maybe that's why the film CHiPs failed. Someone born the year the show went off the air would be 34 now. That's not nostalgia, that's meta…

Its funny how people love their costume epic historical intrigues until they suddenly don't. Shondaland is 'personal intrigue, backstabbing and conspiring' country. Renaissance Italy sounds right up her alley. You can't set these things in Washington anymore with Trump outdoing fiction on a daily basis.