It's not for streaming only, it's for "pay TV," which encompasses all the streaming services and premium cable (but not pay-per-view or digital storefronts like iTunes and Google Play). The deal was actually signed in 2012, but it couldn't go into effect until the end of Disney's existing deal with Starz.

This deal just applies to new stuff (the "pay-TV window"). Netflix signed a separate deal regarding the back catalog at the same time (i.e., in 2012) and that deal went into effect immediately. So don't expect to suddenly get hundreds and hundreds of titles from the Disney vaults. Frankly I don't think Netflix gives a…

It isn't all of them. There's no way to harvest all the expiring titles from Netflix, it's just the ones that people discover by looking through their queue or while randomly browsing.

Unsurprisingly, the list of departing movies is nowhere near complete. Netflix is losing about 400 movies on June 1st alone due to the end of their five-year deal for the Miramax catalog—they've renewed a handful of titles (including big guns like Trainspotting and Pulp Fiction), but the majority are slated to leave…

Maruchan has a few "less sodium" varieties. They call them "less sodium" instead of "low sodium" because "less sodium" means 1,060 milligrams per package.

Parker and Stone didn't come out of Troma—they made Cannibal! independently, then Troma picked up the distribution rights. (Troma also changed the title from Alferd Packer: The Musical, which was probably a good call from a business perspective.)

I think the technical imperfections of the long-take sequence are part of why it works so well, since they're the most obvious cues that this is happening in camera and not through Birdman or Gravity-style computer-aided stitching. Even in those films you can sometimes see the seams, but in this case the seams are,…

Hell, the X68000 was more powerful than even the A2000 (which came out the same month). Kind of a shame it was Japan-only, but then the Western PC market was so fragmented already.

The Brood Saga and Dark Phoenix are okay and all, but if they were really bold they'd adapt the Wolverine and the X-Men arc with Logan and Quentin Quire at the space casino.

At least the NES version was theoretically beatable. You can't even make it to the Technodrome in the DOS port without exploiting a glitch, due to a missing tile in one of the later sewer levels.

Hong Kong films do this so often it's easier to just reel off the names of the "series": Overheard, Casino Raiders, A Moment of Romance, The Eye, Mr. Vampire, annualized New Year's franchises like All's Well Ends Well and I Love Hong Kong, and that's just including series that made it to more than two installments.…

They're connected only by title (and I guess some very loose thematic similarities). I also think this one is actually better, though I can easily understand why someone would feel otherwise.

So Long was '84 and Mostly Harmless was '92. That was a long gap for Adams—the first four in the series were published over a five-year period, and the two Dirk Gently books came out within a year and a half of each other—but not compared to anything on this list.

Yeah, the warden's like "We didn't believe you when you said you were innocent, but it turns out drug sales in your neighborhood are up a thousand percent since we put you away, so I guess you were telling the truth all along." I think that's literally all the evidence the warden has that Dolemite was framed, but…

I saw this a couple of days ago in a beat-to-shit 35mm print and was a little perplexed that the mayor's name was muted on every use. Then I went online and found that his name was "Daley," which more or less explained it. Did all prints of the movie do that? I'm guessing the video releases don't, just like I'm…

I'm pretty sure he's one of the Lego Movie guys

I'll get this if it means Turner is finally serious about streaming and making a decent chunk of their library available outside of TCM—a ton of the stuff they show is either unavailable on DVD or only available through Warner Archive's overpriced burn-on-demand service. (Warner Archive Instant is a joke.) A viable…

It may be a bit longer than that. Warner just pulled it from the repertory circuit, so I suspect they're trying to reduce its availability in anticipation of a re-release ahead of the sequel next year.

He's waiting for the rights to Commissioner Gordon to revert to Marvel

Nothing ever topped the trailer for Real Life.