Hey! Leave Anthony Bourdain where he is!

I think we’re all shocked that Bobby Kotick has no interest in being a good global citizen or to do anything that might potentially make the world a better place if it doesn’t first make him a ton of money.

Yeah, it’s hard to read his Superman works (including Supreme) as anything other than the work of a super-fan.

“Now, can I interest you in my thought-provoking and not at all culturally static graphic novel that shows Wendy having sex with Peter Pan, who’s actually a homeless boy who lives in a park, along with the rest of his band of boys? Oh, you’ll be intrigued to learn that Peter is also a male prostitute. No? Can I tell…

Yes, but more than half of those Spider-Man movies were bad!

... OK, I concede your point, Ms. Banks.

Seldom has a trailer more obviously called out for a January release date.

“Groundbreaking” doesn’t have a timeliness requirement attached. And while you (and I) would have liked to have seen this done decades earlier, there was pushback on it even in 2013, so I’d say it was still impactful at that point.

The Princess and the Frog is definitely under-seen and under-appreciated. But Tiana’s story doesn’t say “no, fuck this bullshit” in the way Frozen does. It’s definitely part of the arc getting there, though.

It did, but at that point, Pixar and Disney animation were different outfits with different workflows and different leadership. Merida has been retroactively been made a Disney princess, but wasn’t at the time. The Pixar folks creating Brave — which is great — weren’t subject to the same internal politics that the…

And it lines up with the message in the first film, that falling in love with a rando in a day and wanting to go off and get married isn’t just silly, but it’s actually dangerous to women.

Elsa is the freaking Snow Queen. She doesn’t need a man to complete her.

As recently as this spring, it was called “Torrance,” which isn’t as generic, although it tells you even less about what the film is about.

Frozen wasn’t exactly a game-changer; superficially subversive, it appealingly bent without breaking family-film rules.

Recentering Romeo and Juliet around Tybalt or Mercutio is pretty much the best way to breathe life into it at this point.

The synopsis sounds silly, but a lot of Spike Lee films do, on paper, but soar on the screen.

This sounds like a winner.

Most of those channels are running “judge” shows or Maury Povich knock-offs now. Syndication ain’t what it was.

Where is Fantasy Island being rerun or streamed?

Most of the really old stuff that was once the staple of reruns isn’t profitable enough to convert for streaming, so it’s just in limbo.

I’ll spoil it:

It’s Orange is the New Black

It would be nice to see the series finally tackle the Satanic Panic. While it’s been great to see D&D portrayed in a positive light on the show, but it’s unrealistic to pretend that no one had an issue with it in the 1980s.

You can’t fool me. Not even the Star Wars series would name a character “Plo Kloon.”

My guess is whoever controls the franchising rights in SoCal is being extra-careful, given how densely populated the local donut scene is.

They’re pretty divisive, but I’m with you.