Anglo Canadian filmmakers need the government funding because its presence has almost completely discouraged them from trying to please an audience. Hence no audience exists. In Quebec, on the other hand …

They're certainly not profitable, and I dunno what "common" would mean in this context, but I'm starting to think that the more the media embrace an accusation, the less likely it is to be solid. Duke lacrosse, Rolling Stone's UVA's expose, Columbia's "Mattress Girl," the Hofstra case from a few years back, Tawana…

Not a bad total for, uh, 50 years of trying.

Michael Dowse (FUBAR, It's All Gone Pete Tong, The F Word) is our only hope.

TVO has the esthetic of PBS, 30 years ago; dry documentaries and earnest public-affairs stuff. I suppose it's the total aversion to anything resembling showbiz makes it attractive to its audience.

Pollard doesn't edit his ideas much? How short does Mac Randall want pop songs to be?

He's still good at acting, maybe not good at picking scripts.

Producers don't like to make positive assumptions about the consumer's intelligence. That said: "London Falling."

Whoa, actual Arab bad guys, though.

Hope you folks like Cameron Esposito, because I have a feeling …

It shamed so many other comics with its design sense. Even the lettering! Only Flagg!'s Ken Bruzenak and Cerebus' Dave Sim really brought anything to that.

I'm quite sure you mean Mister Miracle. Miracleman was … not lighthearted.

As I recall from interviews with Miller at the time, he was highly influenced by Clint Eastwood's screen persona in his films in the '70s and early '80s; Miller suggested that a proper capital-h Hero was a character with an infallible moral intuition, as opposed to the compromised and confused people all around him.…

Miller didn't really have a political agenda at the time, either. His conservative streak emerged a lot later.

I need 600 words on (checks computer screen) "problematic transphobia in Mario Kart 8" by noon, kid!

Writer declares, "Science is mean," stamps her feet over to Jezebel.

Later this year: teasing out the 3rd-wave feminist subtext of Monday Night Football.

Trained killers, every one!

If it decreases *my* odds of being shot …

Mostly suicides, naturally.