Well, if I wanted to see Election back in 1999, I just had to go to a local multiplex and buy a ticket. I didn’t have to agree to pay for the “privilege” of being able to see everything that multiplex was showing for a whole year, whether I was interested in it or not.

I saw Fern Gully on VHS in school, because we were doing a “Save the Rainforest” thing in science class (that was really big at the time), and the only other rainforest saving oriented movie at that time was Medicine Man, which was not at all appropriate to show in a school setting.

So I wonder if we get to meet Arthur Tragg this time around. Or perhaps Gertie?

I believe the script had Saavik being half Romulan, hence her emotional responses. I like her Saavik better, but I kind of think Robin Curtis gets a raw deal. I think a lot of the flatness in her version of the character comes from the script and direction.

Great, I’m happy for him and all and I’m interested in seeing a new Bond. And of course there will always be lots of speculation about “Will Bond be black this time?”, “Will Bond be a lady now?”, “Can Bond be nonbinary?”, etc.

I’m probably the only person around here who cares about these things, but anyone else notice they went back to the pre-2019 wider WB shield, after briefly flirting with the 1930's inspired “skinny” shield?

Wow, that is one of the most misguided things I’ve seen in a long time. But then I read the Youtube comments on the video and it’s all a bunch of, “OMG, this brought me to tears. So uplifting!”

Eh, there just wasn’t as much legs in the concept as they hoped. People seem to cite season 3 as when it went off the rails, but I was ready to throw in the towel after season 2. Pity, too, because I really enjoyed season 1.

Glenn Whipp does not seem to go on to ask Tarantino about the very weird recent blip in his non-hired-hand career, i.e., that bit where it really sounded like he was going to make a Star Trek movie for Paramount.

Yeah, and Bill Cosby got out of prison. You think I give a fuck about the judgments of the US legal system?

Of course there are lots of shows that don’t live up to the promise that they display in their first seasons, but few have nosedived as precipitously as Sherlock did. And mind you, Sherlock was not “brilliant” in season one. It merely showed a lot of promise. But oh boy, did it ever fail to deliver.

More Lestrade.

Wouldn’t it be awesome if Trapper did an episode where a mysterious figure appears to be setting him up and it was ultimately revealed to be... Frank Burns!?

I always thought it would be neat if somebody did a book, movie, series, etc. about Watson investigating a mystery during the “interregnum” between The Final Problem and Empty House. There’s an endless universe of Holmes pastiches out there, so I’m sure several exist, but I’ve never seen a very high profile one.

Hello, I’m Mr. Harrington. Are you registered to vote in this fall’s upcoming election? The [party of your registration] needs your help...

“[I]nto boomer-style commentary about how modern technology is terrible and will inevitably lead to humankind’s downfall.”

[T]he show yanks us back to pivotal moments in his childhood and teenage years that are supposed to inform us about who he was and who he became.

There are bastards, and there are damned bastards, and there are dirty bastards. But the damnedest, dirtiest bastards of all compile web page slide shows.

So many bogus controversies, so little time... Nice to see Hammy making the rounds again, though. For a while I thought he was going to be one of those actors who gets one big role and then vanishes into semi-obscurity.

Clickbait. This site was purged of most actual journalists years ago. To answer the question of what we’re still doing here (and I do visit and post less and less as time goes by), it’s kind of like the zombies in the original Dawn of the Dead who keep showing up at that shopping mall: