The Reedy Creek audit is in, and oh my glob, somebody at Disney is going to have to take one for the team and do some time. It won't be Iger but somebody is going to jail for over this stuff. This is an 80-page report so it will take some time to get through but Disney rhinoed its way through most of the public disclosure "sunshine laws" in Florida. The baseline problem they can probably get around is...
This film knocks it so far out of the park, the ball lands on the Moon. It is unquestionably the very best Godzilla movie of all time. Yes, I am including the unbelievably gutsy 1954 original and that is not a statement I would make lightly. In this case, I make it unreservedly. Something that has been long forgotten about Gojira (1954) is that it was a movie about people. It was a story about a country trying to come to...
I will be seeing Godzilla Minus One this weekend if it freaking kills me. Which it may, and I don't care. I. Will. Do. This. Thing. In the meantime, we will be looking in on the Kaiju movie that never was: The Return of Gorgo. Here's what I had to say about the OG Gorgo. For some peculiar reason, Godzilla is only popular in Japan and America. Other countries are aware of him but they never took the interest in him...
Oh, yeah. Without question. The Bob Iger from twenty years ago would never have made the mistakes he made this November. Iger has enough problems without inviting more to the party. Something to remember about Bob is that his first big dream was to be an anchorman to rival Walter Cronkite. When he gave up his dream of being an anchorman he switched to a business track in ABC News's Wide World of Sports. TV journalists are convinced...
I have some fairly serious doubts about it but is there perhaps a ray or two of sunshine to be found behind what are the admittedly fairly ominous clouds surrounding the Netflix series of films? The showrunner is Mathew Aldritch. A quick scan of his IMDB page reveals that he was the writer of Coco. Yay! Sadly, he was also one of the writers on Lightyear. aww. So that is kind of a fifty-fifty chance. He appears to have left Pixar...
Wish has flopped. It’s official. As of this writing, it has hauled in less than $49 million. It is Disney’s seventh bomb this year and it’s ninth bomb in a row (excluding Guardians 3). Wish is Bob Iger’s disaster. He owns it, every decision he’s made for the last six years contributed to its abject failure. The ever-easily-trained Hollywood trade press has pulled out its official Disney Flop Playbook, flipped to some fairly dog-eared pages, and began reciting the list...
Russell T. Davies is the best friend Chris Chibnall ever had. No one else could have saved Chibnall’s reputation but Davies has done it. He actually made Doctor Who worse. Davies has a long track record for consistently delivering good, solid writing but the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special was so bad it’s up there with BBC’s The Watch. The fandom is standing in stunned disbelief at the magnitude of the disaster. How could this happen? Oh... A joint production of the BBC and Disney....
****** SPOILER ALERT, this is the only one you are getting, as I have always maintained, a story succeeds or fails in the style of it’s telling. Therefore spoiler warnings are pointless because a story that is only worth reading once isn’t worth reading at all. That said, not everyone agrees with me and I do understand the sentiment. Therefore be advised, I will be going into details of the plot about this fairly recent release. If it’s on your to read...
The savior of Doctor Who has come up with a retcon that rivals the Timeless Child. Aside from keeping that hideous abortion of a storyline canon, Davies is about to destroy one of Doctor Who's best villains. Davros. The Daleks first appeared in December 1963 in the show's second serial and promptly rescued Doctor Who from ratings oblivion. The cancelation ax had been getting sharpened but was quickly tucked away again when the viewership blew the roof off. ...
