Yeah, classic Who has a whole lot of padding and pacing issues, especially in the 1960s and '70s. But it's still entertaining.

Yeah, I found the Grinch movie lightly enjoyable, mostly because of Carrey in fact (I was really into his films at the time), but there's a lot of fat on the script. And unfortunately, because it was a really big hit — we all seem/want to forget it was the highest-grossing film of 2000 — it just encouraged similarly…

My first bad movie was "All Dogs Go to Heaven". I hadn't wanted to see it anyway — I was 11 at the time and hot to see "The Little Mermaid", which hit theaters at the same time — but beyond my sheer annoyance at being forced to see it, it didn't take long to realize that it had a rather unlikable protagonist (even…

Yeah, 93 minutes seems awfully short for a drama like this…maybe there were some last-minute edits for an easy dump off? I mean, this is going up against "Rogue One".

I only follow this show through recaps, but Regina's chronic inability to find lasting happiness, which is due largely to her evil past, led to her excising her "bad" side in last season's finale with a magic potion. Unfortunately for everybody, her evil became manifest in the form of a separate Evil Queen, who is…

I worked my way through some of the classics this year — "Uncle Tom's Cabin", an "Arabian Nights" translation, the last few Sherlock Holmes volumes, "The Pilgrim's Progress". For more recent works, Steve Silberman's "Neurotribes" was excellent. For lighter fare, I read through a lot of comics, including the first…

And the "CHiPS" movie gets sacrifced on the altar of the "Beauty and the Beast" remake now…this is really a no-win situation for Warner Bros.

Not noted above: If "King Arthur" were released March 24, it would be following on the heels of the "Beauty and the Beast" remake — another Disney property, as it happens, and arguably one with even more buzz than "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2". I suspect Warner Bros. is just shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic…

Great to see this comic being talked up — I read the first volume last month (found it at my local library) and am looking forward to buying the next one. Sad to hear it's not more popular, though, but I can't say I'm surprised…

A few months ago Doctor Who Magazine's 3-panel gag comic had a background gag with a sign that says that at a Dalek rally.

Yeah, "Hell Bent" was a good episode but it could have been great had it not given Clara everything but the guy at the end; it's harder to argue that she wasn't a Mary Sue. I would have preferred an ending in which she and the Doctor just returned her to her death, whereupon the Doctor could come to terms with his…

A very good writeup — I saw the Fathom Events broadcast too.

They also have pretty much the pick of any Disney and Pixar films they please on weekends.

Also (as I noted above before I saw this post, silly me), the MCU films are much easier to slot into cable schedules willy-nilly; HP is much more continuity-dependent so the marathon-only approach makes sense.

As far as cable airings go, Freeform (going back to its ABC Family days) periodically trucks out this whole series for a week or two of airings. They seem to prefer keeping it as one big "mass" of movies, rather than just scheduling them willy-nilly as one can do with the MCU films.

Actually, I think those are the household staff.

I never got into the stage show either, mostly because of the flabbiness. Plus, the touring cast I saw (First National Company in Chicago in 1997) was dreadful; everyone but Belle was much more over the top than their film counterparts, and worse playing up the comedy whenever they could — even the Beast, who had no…

The "Beauty and the Beast"-inspired stretch of Fantasyland at Disney World is truly exceptional — not as full-scale immersive as the Harry Potter attractions at Universal, but the shops, dining establishments, and Belle meet-and-greet attraction are very nicely detailed.

Yeah, and my understanding is that that was only for the American market, absent from the UK airings.

I can see where Riley's angst seems like small potatoes, and in fact the plot description turned me off from it initially, but the fact that the film made her unhappiness extremely palpable — and thus her actions made some sense — was actually one of its great strengths for me.