In case anyone missed it on i09 (or any of the other places it’s been covered), Disney is trying to screw Alan Dean Foster out of his rightful royalties for the Star Wars novels he wrote, saying they bought the rights to the work but not the contractual obligations (so they’re going to keep making money off books that…

The AV Club rules for writing about abusive celebrities are a mystery indeed.

R. Kelly would’ve been peerfect for this

This, but for like, all Star Wars movies to some degree.

I was on Jeopardy in 2012. I was sporting a modestly impressive jewfro at the time. During the breaks, he likes to tunelessly sing to himself. As he was taking pictures with all of us, he sang “here’s a guy with my hair from the ‘70s” to himself as he approached me.

It’sh only natural that Sean Connery would drag his archnemesis to the afterlife.

It was Earth all along!

Now and again I see mention of a Blur/Oasis beef, and I just wonder how. They aren’t even on the same level.

My partner and I did a free trial to the Strand Releasing on Amazon Prime and I’ve watched more movies on there in the last few days than I’ve watched on Amazon/Netflix/Hulu/HBO in the last month combined. As far as I can tell, they only produce films that are Gay, French, Jewish, Israeli, or combinations thereof,…

The season finale of US election was excellent.

Started Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit yesterday.

So I just watched a concert on livestream. I wonder if more artists are going to start doing this. I had tickets to a bunch of shows before COVID hit. Most of the shows were postponed. Niall Horan refunded my money, then decided to perform live from an empty concert hall and sell tickets to watch that at home for $20.…

Except people are getting really tired of the “I’m sorry to those who may have been offended” type apologies that don’t actually describe what they did and who they hurt.

The main problem was the original Warner Bros. apology reeked of “We’re sorry that you’re offended,” which is the textbook way to do an insincere apology. We have no way of knowing if Hathaway’s apology was sincere or not, but it at least took responsibility for it and promised to try to do better in the future, which…

On one level I agree with you. On the other hand, to be fair, it often doesn’t take much digging to find insincerity. I don’t think this article is digging for anything.

I get this sentiment, but as someone who’s part of various communities subject to incredibly half-assed apologies, there are so many “I’m sorry if anyone was offended (but here are three or four mitigating circumstances)” ones versus “I’m sorry and will try to do better” that sometimes people are even more offensive…

You do realize plenty of people have been saying that exact thing about BIPOC characters in movies for literal decades or have you NOT seen Taye Diggs in Malibu’s Most Wanted?

Representation matters, especially in a kids’ movie where the target audience is highly impressionable and tend to be sorely lacking in what the…

Umm... People have protested minorities being represented negatively as villains or token characters pretty much since Birth of a Nation. I think you’ll find most folks that visit this site agree that’s a negative thing. I’m not sure the point you think you’re making by saying that “you could say” black people being…

I’ve always had a strange affection for Paul Reiser - loved Mad About You when I was a kid. And his movie “Bye Bye Love” - is one of those movies that’s probably not very good actually, but kinda got grandfathered into my “I love this movie” list before I had actual tastes. It’s been nice to see him have a career…

“Just for the mercenary… Is that the right word? Just so that you would say, “Hey, everybody, watch There’s… Johnny.” That’s the price I’m willing to pay: I’m giving a half-hour of my life answering silly questions talking to a very nice young woman just so that hopefully the 14 people who are aware of this would…