The original show was challenging. You assumed during most of some episodes that you were on the right side, and then the writing turned the table and made you realize you still had prejudices and flaws. Anybody could watch it and be inspired in some way.

British audiences would know right from the start that Julian is a creep, as he’s played by Julian Barratt. Barratt, like Richard Fulcher, Matt Berry or Steve Coogan, would never be cast as a straight man. He was a member of the Mighty Boosh, made a few appearances as the priest in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, and is a…

The DA4 report was more or less a given if he talked to people who still work for Bioware for his report on Anthem. These people have more reasons to talk about what could be fixed or go better there than about what’s already messed up for good, now that Anthem is done.

Many visual elements out of it have been used in Valerian or Star Trek:Discovery. in the latter case, it’s a return to sender, given that a lot of elements from ME had been influenced by ST:TNG.

According to Alan Elliott, Aretha had a love-hate relationship with the footage. On one hand, it’s one of her greatest performances ever, captured on camera. On the other, she had been promised that she would become a film star thanks to this. For Warner Bros, it was supposed to be the big follow-up movie to Woodstock,…

Keep in mind that the control pads bundled with the system will be the 3-button version, not the latter 6 button model. It won’t be as much as a limiting factor for the selection of games as the PS1 Classic (because some later games required the Dual Analog/DualShock controller and they only put a replica of the…

There was a series of faults at the studio.

That was definitely a joke. Song of the South is the title everybody has in mind when it comes to content that will never leave the vault again, even when Disney says that they’re opening it. That’s like when somebody talks about a Star Wars retrospective and insists on including the Holiday Special.

Mickey was actually a rip-off from another Ub Iwerks creation, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Iwerks and Disney had developed the cartoons at the Walt Disney Studios, but the rights to the character contractually belonged to their client, Universal, which wanted to go into the cartoon business. After 25 or so cartoons made…

Also from cable fees. Basically, you’ll get all the cartoon library from Disney Channel.

It’s just a rumor, but what I’ve heard is that the head of the S&P department finds these cartoons really offensive and vetoes their release, even if there was some contextualization provided by historians or a disclaimer. As long as this person is in charge, there won’t be any release of the kind.

It’s some kind of a tragedy that Hammett basically stopped writing in the early thirties and never really recovered from his writer’s block. Chandler published a couple of so-and-so novels but he still gave us The Long Goodbye.

The more you know about her parents, the more you know that it was a recipe for disaster. She was a good actress that at some point got lost in some other stuff and has never really recovered, being relegated instead to a punchline, especially as she has still ambitions of being the next Marilyn Monroe or winning an…

Go and watch A Prairie Home Companion, the final film by Robert Altman. She was starting to make tabloid headlines at this point in her career, but she’s indeed fine in an ensemble filled with heavyweights. She actually plays convincingly Meryl Streep’s daughter. She’s not the standout cast member in this one, but it…

Don’t forget the time when the Navy allowed a band access to one of their frigates, plus the crew and a few planes to shoot a music video for free, provided they would be allowed in return to use the song for recruitment. They later realized that there was some gay subtext to The Village People and stuck with “Anchors…

There’s also “Madame de...” in The Earrings of Madame de..., the character played by Omari Hardwick in Sorry to Bother You as his name is always bleeped out, the eponymous character from Letters of a Portuguese Nun (which was even published anonymously). Humbert Humbert in Lolita is a pseudonym, etc.

The Man with No Name was a concept developed by a publicist at United Artists to sell the films as a trilogy. Clint Eastwood indeed plays the same character, but it’s hard to say whether there’s some actual continuity between the adventures, or if it’s like the old Laurel & Hardy films where the stars play the same…

Unfortunately, he wouldn’t get Steely Dan for the theme song.

I strongly suspect that the script for Spectre originally planned to introduce a villain related to Bond’s past, his foster brother, possibly a member of the Quantum organization. But then, Eon found a settlement with the estate of Kevin McClory, and forced John Logan and the writers who rewrote his draft to replace…