The A.V. Club.  

A titan of his craft, a trailblazer, and a well-deserved icon. RIP.

And on top of everything else, he nailed Diahann Carroll. Rest easy, good sir.

I assume you’re using “halfway decent” in the “stone cinematic masterpiece” sense of the word.

Question; why are just throwing flak at Rowling and not Chris Columbus?

“specifically, the comedian posted a video to his Twitter feed today in which he bluntly states that “I do not think J.K. Rowling is anti-Semitic. I did not accuse her of being anti-Semitic. I do not think the Harry Potter movies are anti-Semitic.”

Eh...Cho isn’t the only Asian characters. The Patil sisters are both obviously Indian and India is in Asia. I’m a bit sensitive to that as I’m Indian and spent a good portion of high school listening to my Chinese and Korean classmates tell me India is more like the Middle East.

This site can only cover so many subjects. If they took the time to write Cobra Kai recaps, we might miss out on articles about Al from Home Improvement not selling NFTs.

That dig against Lou Malnati’s is pretty solid though. Their pizza is fine, but it’s no Art of Pizza or Giordano’s or Exchequer (at least ten years ago, I think that place is a sports bar now).

Right. Eight movies just coalesced from the ether, and each just happened to be based on a book she wrote  it was sheer coincidence that the actors spoke her words, pretended to have the name and characteristics of characters she created, in situations she dictated  

Rowling absolutely deserved more time in this.

Right. Were she there, she could potentially add more original insights as part of an in-person conversation. Because she wrote the books this is all based on.

My favorite part is the “Load more slideshows” button at the end.  For those who specifically love them, I guess.

Just write a review of the thing instead of giving us another damn slideshow.

So if Rowling’s actual inclusion was going to be taken as proof that cancel culture isn’t real, by that logic, isn’t the fact that she’s been relegated to archival footage evidence that it is?

As someone who grew up with the books, grew up with the films there’s nothing I find less appealing than my generation’s still absurd attachment to this stuff.

Because it’s hers. That’s the simple answer. She created it, it’s her intellectual property, she owns the rights to it, and she’s still alive. Until she sells her rights in entirety or dies, nothing — nothing — happens in Harry Potterland without either JK Rowling’s blessing or JK Rowling getting a big fat check out…

woof, *any* excuse to try and make a slideshow happen.

These are awful.  

No courtrooms for Daniel. His business is damaged by the bad PR and he suffers some social repercussions. 

I’ve been making the same argument right here for years.
Kinja is a peer-reviewed publication right?