There’s some debate about whether or not it was actual “drama”. According to Isaac Hayes’ son, Hayes management which (surprise!) had ties to Scientology, swooped in and started handling Hayes’ affairs after suffered a stroke. They supposedly put it out that Hayes was quitting because of “Trapped in the Closet” when…

I love that Lucasfilm swiftly clarified Sheev’s “son” was actually a clone because people found the idea of Palps having sex so gross/hilarious.

What are they supposed to do? Make sure that media companies don’t become information/entertainment monopolies?

In The Hellbound Heart, the Cenobites are physically off putting. Frank opens the box expecting to be greeted by beautiful angelic beings and is initially reluctant to join up with a bunch of grotesque monsters.

And that’s another thing, the Cenobites aren’t really “evil”. In the novella they give Frank a choice to not…

This feels particularly pointed at Viola for being Black and these people don’t actually care that this movie has ties to the Slave trade historically.

300 was very controversial. It was labelled thinly veiled racist/Islamophobic Bush era propaganda (especially given Frank Miller’s racist uncle rants at the time), the depiction of Xerxes was criticized as homophobic and engaging in the Depraved Homosexual/Bisexual trope, and many of the films critics pointed out that…

Yeah. Miramax was owned by Disney and there were some films that Disney just wouldn’t let them release, so the Weinstein Brothers and their team would set up one-off studios to distribute those films. Larry Clark’s Kids was another one.

In retrospect, it’s sort of funny that Disney has now released Little Demon which…

I remember similar discussions around 300 pointing out that the Spartans would be considered fascists by today’s standards and bringing up how the film just kind of glossed over certain aspects of Spartan culture like slavery and pedophilia.

But 300 was one of the last historical epics to have a pop culture impact. I…

The Spartacus one is pretty famous among LGBTQ film buffs because of Vito Russo’s brilliant book The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in Movies which was turned into an (equally brilliant) documentary by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. That scene is discussed in-depth in the book and documentary.

And honestly, if…

they nerd out on battle strategy

A24's films are generally very cheap to produce and they usually turn a profit before they even see a theatrical release thanks to the sale of the international distribution rights.

Nope. It’s actually a lot of Black social media users who are taking issue with the film as it glorifies Dahomey, a kingdom that made its fortunes by selling other Africans into slavery.

Ana Lucia Araujo (a professor of history at Howard University who has won awards for her writing about the history of the Atlantic…

I think American Crime Story has sort of fallen into focusing on celebrity related crimes (Simpson trial, Versace murder, Clinton impeachment, rumors are the next season will be the rise and fall of Studio 54) and Murphy could probably argue to FX that Jeffrey Dahmer falls outside its brand.

I thought it was Corey Feldman.

• Urkel (who was never meant to be a main character)

The OT box office was diminishing returns, Return of the Jedi made the least out of all the originals. I think the PT was an exception to the rule in that Revenge of the Sith made more than Attack of the Clones (which was considered a bomb by some publications) but neither of them made as much as The Phantom Menace.

And…

In fairness, even back then, The X-Files was a fluke (no pun intended). Every other science fiction show Fox tried in that slot bombed with exception of maybe Sliders but that was no where near as successful as The X-Files and (I’m like 90% sure) Fox just felt ratings there were good enough and decided not to mess…

People under 60 are less likely to watch live television and people over 60 are less likely to know what a Ted Lasso is.

I think The X Factor (?) put her off those shows. Among other things, they had this (clearly set up bit that she wasn’t aware of) where someone she used to work with (maybe it was on The Mickey Mouse Club reboot or something like that) auditioned.

They were allowed to come up to the judges’ table and get in her…

Wasn’t Clerks originally supposed to have a really grim ending where one of them is killed in a robbery?

It’s one of those alternate endings that comes out of left field and is genuinely agreed would have ruined the rest of the film (the alternative ending to Alien where you hear Ripley making contact with a rescue…