As far as I can tell, Korra is only on Prime, and that may be the UK version (also in Ireland, but we have UK Prime).

In the UK/Ireland, they’ve both been on Prime for a while, and The Last Airbender just popped up on Netflix a few weeks ago, so it’s currently streaming on both (not sure what sort of distribution deal allows that, but there it is).

Was it that he couldn’t because Martin Scorsese can’t get films made today (which, see FF Coppola), or because The Irishman was stuck in development hell for ages, and when it finally came up, Scorsese insisted on 3.5-hour-long film (it’s nearly 30 minutes longer than Endgame), with fairly expensive special effects? I…

Got the keys?

This is a bad take that shows a bafflingly uniformed understanding of Hollywood history, female (lack of) power in industrial Hollywood, and the current, two-year-old cultural conversation that’s been shedding a lot of light on that history. I mean, just a really bad take.

For years, I thought the line in “Magic Bus” that opens the song - “Every day I get my cue, to get on the bus that takes me to you,” meant that he gets the heads up in some way (like a feeling, or an alarm, or something like that), that’s it time to get on the bus.

not spring clean?

This. The conspirators believe that any little link proves collusion. The money that went to abstract expressionism was mostly to promote it and mess with American sensibilities about what art was. That may have affected the way it was critically received (which may have affected its popularity), but capitalism…

If you like Mewes, you really oughta (plus, it’s just an incredibly funny and somehow really sweet movie).

Have you seen Zack and Miri?

Harold and Maude’s an interesting one - it did catch on wildly in a few places (I think it had its longest run in Minneapolis, but was also so popular in Paris they made a stage play of it). But more widely it was a dud. Released in ‘71, didn’t make its budget back until 1980.

Aw, I really like The Sure Thing - haven’t seen it in ages (and I guess its sexual politics are pretty dated), but is that one on everybody’s shit list these days?

Paths of Glory is phenomenal.

Between 70-79 Hal Ashby made The Landlord, Harold and Maude, The Last Detail, Shampoo, Bound for Glory, Coming Home, and Being There. Pretty good run.

Weird, I have a distinct memory of the flying baby being the first Far Side that I lost my shit to - could it have been published in a book, but not the papers? I seem to remember a caption something like: why umbilical cords don’t use slipknots.

Aw shitfuckdamn, I love Ric Ocasek for so many reasons. Rest in Peace you wonderful genius freak!

I read The Hobbit to my then seven-year-old a while back (think I’ll leave LOTR for him to read on his own). I’d forgotten how deeply I’d loved it as a kid and reading it to him, and sort of experiencing it through his eyes and imagination, really brought back a lot of its magic for me. I didn’t remember the dwarves…

So what you’re saying is that even though the 2017 remastered White Album had massive sales and was a huge critical success, a dumbass meme that’ll be dead as Dillinger* in ten days proves the Beatles are no longer of interest to anybody? And also that the star of one of the most widely watched children’s films of all…

She’s an American icon. I don’t know your age or what sort of crowd you run with, but it sort of blows my mind that you would think only the “50-70 crowd” would care about Judy Garland. Cinema history is American history, and in many ways Hollywood history lays claim to a huge chunk of 20th-century global history. I’d…

Um, maybe anybody who’s interested in Hollywood history at all? Anybody who enjoys classical Hollywood cinema and one of its greatest performers? Plus, what Cigarette said . . .