Hm. The 1980s Twilight Sparkle in this set seems like it’s based on a mold from the G3 line of My Little Pony, which was released in the late 90s/early 2000s. I still think it’s cute but I find it odd they didn’t release one from the actual G1 line. Maybe because another company (Basic Fun, I think?) is releasing the…

That’s one of the ones I was thinking of! I think he has Warhammer/Games Workshop rights too, no? I’d love to see Temeraire adapted but ideally by someone else. Or at least directed by someone else. PJ did fine with LOTR but I’d love to see more visual variety in the fantasy series that are coming out. 

Jackson is really bad about capturing rights just to keep others from having/using them.

I think there was an issue with her being turned into a frog for the majority of the movie. The film had a lot of ... good intentions applied in a tone deaf way, in my opinion. 

I also think one contributing factor to the movie’s being “forgotten” was the majorly forgettable soundtrack. Disney movies tend to live and…

I’ve actually worked for James Cameron and the two can’t be compared at all. Stubborn autocrat? Maybe. Control freak? Sure. Bad manager? Not at all. He’s very nice and charming when things are going his way, and he knows what he wants and will get what he wants, but he’s smart enough to know when to listen to his…

Not really. Hollywood loves certain auteurs and will finance their disasters over and over again.

Cine-phile friends described “Man in La Mancha” to me as a stirring story about thwarted genius and a cursed film set. As someone working in the entertainment industry, I watched it and shuddered at a poor manager making bad decisions and then cursing the universe when those bad decisions had logical consequences.…

How can you say it demonizes religion and is anti-religion without actually reading the books? Sounds like you’ve been blindly taking your Sunday school teacher’s word for it without bothering to find out the truth for yourself...which is ironically a lot of what is tackled in the books.

Or that he invented a supervillain persona so that the supers would have someone to fight against and look good. And also somehow he profits off of all this.

That is, if they are actually on sale. Toys R Us has long been a perpetrator of “mark them up to mark them down,” tactics. Last week, I noticed that they had increased toy prices on a lot of in-demand, new toys by 10-15%. Eg, a doll that Target sells for $22.99 and normally sells at TRU for $24.99 was marked up to…

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This is hilarious, and exactly how the book reads. Well done, Demi, well done.

I think you missed one of the best reasons they make a great couple: Batman never can fully commit to a woman because he’s ultimately always afraid of losing her the way he lost his parents. Selina and Andrea are both mortal, while Diana is practically invincible, so I can imagine Bruce feeling like he can truly relax…

No. Even if you’re the actor who miraculously escapes any kind of sexual misconduct, you’re still treated like something less than human during the audition process, and on set are regarded by most crew as something akin to a meat puppet or a mannequin that speaks unless you’re lucky enough to be the lead and have a…

This is extremely common in the entertainment industry, especially if you don’t have money to film anything properly. Sizzles are notoriously “don’t ask, don’t tell,” when it comes to sourcing clips and music, the general consensus being that since it’s technically not used for commercial purposes and is only shown…

It hurts my heart to hear Steven Spielberg call Ernie Cline a “true visionary.” There is nothing “visionary” about copy/pasting lists from Wikipedia.

Me neither, and it didn’t help that it really felt that they were trying to build an elaborate story around this “eccentric, crazy old woman,” when there was a much more pragmatic possibility: She was a wealthy woman living in a small town in a depression-prone time with guilt about where her fortune came from. It…

Bruce Coville wrote Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, not Bruce Cobble.

Honestly, knowing that makes me wonder if he had a different book half-way written, and then added on the second half (when the children are introduced) once the story was contracted. Eg, “Oh, look, I can pull this half-finished manuscript out of a drawer and make it work, badaboom, badabing!”

Just because so much in…

So true. One of our cats we found emaciated after she’d been abandoned by someone we think moved out (and just left her behind). When we transitioned our cats from indoor/outdoor to indoor only, we thought she would have the hardest time but, nope, she never had any desire to leave the warm kitchen.