It’s very strange how British television is (largely) publicly funded but isn’t afraid to get very political, while American television is (largely) privately funded and tries to stay apolitical as possible. There was a television film with Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham that aired on Channel 4 last autumn about a…

It was very clear that Al “falling in love with him” was purely platonic and not that Al was suddenly attracted to men. And - in the context of the time - the “He was a homo, Peg;” line is the standard casual homophobia that you’d see in almost nearly sitcom, including ones that are praised for their handling of LGBTQ+…

All of Ballard’s works have a dream like quality but the scary truth is that from the ecological disasters of The Drowned World and The Burning World to the cruelty as leisure for the wealthy of Super Cannes to the pop fascism of Kingdom Come, a lot Ballard’s scenarios are just realistic... They’re actively happening.

Yes because a sci-fi horror about genetically engineered insects driving residents of a luxury high-rise apartment into murderous states of ecstasy, a meta biopic about the creation of an infamous novel where the author finds the lines between reality and fiction blurring and you’re not sure what’s real and what’s…

I feel like it’s really unfair to make comparisons to Titane and Crash since Titane felt more along the lines of Angela Carter than J.G. Ballard. There’s an element of magical realism to Titane (I mean, she literally fucks a car) whereas Crash is set firmly within the confines of the real world. Titane is like a…

It was extremely misogynistic (although Al and his friends always got their comeuppance) but it was surprisingly progressive when it came to LGBTQ issues. There were definitely jokes at the expense of the community but they were the kind of stuff you’d see on The Golden Girls too.

And the episode where Peggy starts…

If they got the voice actors from the Japanese dub of this episode of The Simpsons to dub them in this new series, I would watch it. There’s something so deadly serious about their delivery that I find kind of hilarious. Like they’re doing Married...with Children as a Kurosawa film or something.

Moebius did a lot of the design work for The Fifth Element and is given a credit. Off the top of my head: He designed several ships, the robotic aliens that protect Leeloo, the basic design of the Diva (although she’s orange in Moebius’s sketch), Zorg’s little pet elephant thing, and even worked with Gaultier to…

Or maybe just the Cattrall Mannequin from the movie Mannequin.

He even tried his hand a prestige television. Remember when networks in the early to mid 90's were trying to imitate the success of Twin Peaks by giving film directors their own little genre bending soap operas often set in quirky small towns? Raimi had one starring a young Sarah Paulson (as a ghost) called American…

Oh my point with Charles is that it’s baffling he wasn’t inducted sooner.

That’s because The Country Hall of Fame only allows three or four inductees a year and it splits them up by era. So you can only have one Veteran and one Modern performer (modern in the loosest sense of the word because The Judds were modern inductees) and the other one or two spots are allocated to people behind the…

It’s expensive but it’s not as expensive as it was 30, 20, or even just 10 years ago now that they’ve gotten it down to a science enough that they’re able to open one or two new parks every decade. And it’s Disney, they have money to burn.

The main issue is that Disney World is thee Disney Park. It’s a mecca for Disney…

Except Disney doesn’t own a lot of the things featured, especially in that scene of the all the different cartoon characters’ body parts. They either licensed them or made everything just vague enough that it falls under parody.

Most of the characters I see are from Disney animation (Disney has treated its animated…

The new episodes of American Dad! actually do better in the ratings on Adult Swim (they premiere on TBS Monday night and AS repeats them the following Sunday). So moving AD! to a new network that it’s better suited to is an easy solution. That’s assuming 20th Television/Disney doesn’t want it because it’s technically…

Zoomers aren’t addicted to Twitter. Zoomers think Twitter is for old people and prefer social media platforms like TikTok, Snap Chat, and Instagram. Statistically the largest share of Twitter users are Millennials and the later part of Gen X. I don’t know a single Zoomer with Twitter (and they only use sites like…

Skarsgård explains that Nicole Kidman got a sword and, as far as he remembers, Willem Dafoe received a longship. Björk, he says, was given “three Icelandic horses.” And Skarsgård, who plays the film’s protagonist, got a blood-soaked g-string.

The anime isn’t really Ultraman, it’s a complete reimagining of the mythos. Tsuburaya put a lot of the Ultraman shows on YouTube.

Eh. The title is better than the actual film which is an obscure early work  and only of interest to hardcore Cronenberg fans. Kim Newman (who generally like Cronenberg’s work) once said the synopsis is more entertaining than the actual film.

I remember reading somewhere - and I swear to God that I’m not making this up - Cronenberg had them give Mortensen a digital foreskin since he’s circumcised and non-Jewish men in Russia are usually uncut.