The Gremlins book wasn’t the basis for the film Gremlins. It’s a tale of mischievous creatures sabotaging British aircraft during WWII (as per the original use of the term, which is mentioned in the film Gremlins). It was intended to be a Disney animated film at one point but that never happened.

Yeah well all moves HATE you! They told me! 

No - voting ended on 30 Aug, a few days before his death. I’m not sure how accurate it is but Deadline said he was already a frontrunner in their obituary. Fingers crossed he gets it - it’ll be amazing and fitting if he did and it’ll be nice to know he got it purely on merits.

Agreed completely. These columns - and their predecessors - have been the absolute highlight of the site for the past few years, showcasing the sort of intelligent, knowledgeable articles on pop culture - with the right mixture of facts, analysis and personal opinion (that never fell into feeling like someone’s…

He'd have gotten away with it if he'd taught those kids the lost art of keeping a secret.

Because they had to make that deal to use Spider-Man *at all*. With Hulk they can use him as much as they want in their films and TV shows, just not as a standalone Hulk film. So it’s probably not worth the studio politics.

That’s an awesome idea but it would take Tom’s workload from close to 100 films to about 500.

I thought Evans was great but the idea of Cena as Gaston is incredible. 

My heart would love a look at each Best Picture winner.

One of my biggest cinematic surprises of 2019 was that Tim Burton’s(!) Dumbo was the best of the three live action remakes. Sure, "best" is by default but at least that had Keaton, DeVito and Arkin having fun.

I work at a cinema and so have access to film posters and a son who loves them. The teaser poster of baby Simba is the only poster he’s refused to have on his wall.

“it would have been placed among the Iron Man 3 and Thor 2 tier of movies.”

The Lion King is worse. And I wasn’t even completely against it. I love the original and was intrigued about taking something like that and changing the aesthetic and seeing what difference it made to how it felt. Not dissimilar to the Psycho remake (even if that wasn’t the aim behind this). And The Jungle Book had…

See also: the director of Moonlight and If Beale Street Could talk taking on... a prequel to the Lion King remake. 

Given his work on The Mandalorian at the same time - which is clearly something he's passionate about - I wonder how much involvement he had in this outside of recording the actors and approving rough footage. The whole thing plays like a soulless tech demonstration. It makes sense that the chief creative behind it…

Not to mention a walking study in demonology. 

I saw it in IMAX. It didn’t save it.

It definitely was but I’m really trying not to get my hopes up. It might just be an archival laugh and a pumpkin bomb slipping through the multiverse crack.

I'm a big fan of Ruffalo's "No, but when do I ever get what I want?" response to Tony asking he he wanted a shot at Maw. 

The whole sequence of Stark, Banner, Strange, Spidey and Wong against the henchmen is great (I love the “steal a necklace from a wizard” summary quoted in the article) but there’s something especially wonderful about how Peter notes he was on a school trip “to MO-MA!” as he’s getting thrown around.