I don’t have high hopes because most streaming service “documentaries” are pretty shallow, but there’s a lot more to the story than what the public knows which they could cover. Like what was their ultimate business plan? Were they hoping that AMC or Regal (both of which later created similar “unlimited” plans just…

He plays the missing son. Who is in the obvious non-sunlit place.

They should have remade If... (1968) instead. That’s the movie where Kubrick discovered Malcolm McDowell and decided to cast him as Alex in A Clockwork Orange.

Silverado was an interesting Western in that it played itself straight. Pretty much every other modern Western takes it upon itself to “debunk” the Western by showing that the Old West wasn’t that great, populated by horrible people. While I get that classic white hat/black hat Westerns are unrealistic, glorify…

On the other hand a lot of people were pretty oblivious to queer culture then even when it was out and obvious. Women swooned over Liberace not getting that they were barking up the wrong tree.

I kinda liked A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966). It’s actually kind of neat how the musical is not only set in Ancient Rome, but has a plot taken from stitching together several comedies by the Roman playwright Plautus. And the songs by Sondheim are pretty good too.

That’s actually kind of impressive. I know Kelly from Singing in the Rain and so on, but I hadn’t realized this sort of mix of animation and live action was possible in the 1940s (looking it up, Anchors Aweigh was from 1945). I guess I thought it was Who Framed Roger Rabbit? that created this kind of thing.

But that can be said of most things. I don’t happen to like country music, and that’s a common dislike. But country singers don’t try to hide the fact that they are country singers by dressing up as metalheads or whatever to try to get the country-haters to listen to them -- instead they dress up like cowboys or…

It kinda jumped around. It covered most (but not all) of the first book, plus probably a third of the second, plus some stuff they just made up.

That was kind of Butler’s intent (the “nowhere” part, not getting it slightly wrong). The most famous example of a fictional society that was created as a criticism of real societies is Thomas More’s “Utopia”. Utopia literally means “Noplace” in ancient Greek.

Which in turn is a reference to Butler’s novel.

Is this the name of the apartment building in LA that they will be staying at? Because the apartment building in NYC is the Arconia (well, actually it’s the Belnord, but it is called the Arconia in the series).

Yes, she was shown as cute and fun, with the only “insufferable” part from the male perspective that she was obsessed with fashion. Which to be fair is no worse than males being obsessed with sports, or Marvel movies, or whatever — it’s just that as it is “feminine” it is seen as lesser than male-associated obsessions.…

No, because Anakin was redeemed in the end. I just don’t see that happening with Rudy.

I think it will show that her blood was filled with LSATichlorians, making it genetically inevitable that she would go to law school.

I get what you’re saying, even then it’s messed up, but normally later and the evening you can more commonly attribute violence to rowdy drunks, although somebody could just not be sober by morning either.

Yes, they should bring Peter Jackson in and make it a three parter! He’s great at adding pointless subplots to drag a story out!

I imagine they’ll just do bits and pieces, the way “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” includes parts of scenes from Hamlet.

You know AVClub wasn’t on the ball when fucking boingboing (who basically mostly steals things from Hacker News and AVClub) had an article about Corman yesterday within minutes of the news hitting.

Or at least hit 100. I know it’s arbitrary, but when cool people are close to that age it is even sadder that they don’t hit it. Like I doubt Jimmy Carter will make it either.