**There will be spoilers throughout** The Batman has its fans and I will grant it has a few things going for it. The main plot was decent enough. The muscle car Batmobile was at least a little different. Alfred was good. However, DEI was force-fed into it by the Warner comedy team of Sarnoff and Hamada. Catwoman lecturing Bruce Wayne on his White Male Privilege was stomach-churning. The Gotham City being flooded was a violent tonal shift, it hadn’t been...
Disney Chairman of the Board James Gorman's search committee apparently has orders from Bob Iger. "Find someone who will make the bastards miss me!" The internal Candidates at Disney haven't been all that promising. Jason Pitaro the Chairman of ESPN has done fine with his division but he doesn't have the connections he'd need to reestablish the broken key talent links in the entertainment industry, nor does he have experience dealing with the ridiculous egos and power trips of show business....
Editor of Kotaku and failed sex worker Alyssa Mercante has left Kotaku, right before it got hit by a massive round of layoffs. I don't like being fair to Mercante but I feel I need to be both to maintain my own standards for integrity and because she is incredibly litigious. She did not put Kotaku in the position it's in today. There was a string of terrible decisions that have been made starting with the shitcanning of Brian Crecente...
"My beloved. May you rest in power sweet to the sweet in heaven," said Virginia Madsen, Todd's Candyman costar in a tearful post on Instagram. "The great actor Tony Todd has left us and now is an angel. As he was in life." Tony Todd was born in 1954 in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Hartford, Conn. He studied at the Eugene O'Neill National Theater Institute in Waterford, Conn., and Trinity Rep Conservatory in Providence, R.I. The six foot five...
Democrats are absolutely beside themselves with rage over... Well everything at the moment but they feel they have once again been betrayed by the polling. This time they are completely right. A while back, Disney subsidiary ESPN bought up Nate Silver's 538 to help with their forecasting. It was actually a pretty smart idea. Then 538 gets transferred over to ABC News, which takes it away from Jason Pitaro and puts it under the control of... You guessed it! Dana Walden. Nate Silver...
If not the biggest certainly the most high profile is The Walt Disney Company. Under Bob Iger's leadership, Disney has become the company that always and ever only ever only puts its money on one side of the table. Not a great idea for a high-profile business. Hollywood used to be smarter about it. The Moguls would back Republicans and the talent would back Democrats. It gave Tinsel Town a foot in each camp. Now it's only one side but since everyone...
I return to you now at the turn of the tide. I'll just be updating this post over the next couple of days as I suspect there is going to be minimal interest in a comics and pop culture blog before Wednesday. Just check in now and then. FIRST Oh, dear. It appears that as friends go the Powell Group is definitely of the fair-weather variety. Powell has deleted any and all references to Sweet Baby Inc. from their website and...
Apparently so. I can’t really do a proper review of Agatha All Along because I didn’t watch the whole thing. Having learned more than I ever wanted to about Marvel TV’s storytelling I figured, (rightfully so as it turned out) that I could just skip everything between the premiere episode and the series finale because any and all in the middle would be utterly pointless filler. I was right by the way but it does mean I can not in all...
“Bowser is Bondage Daddy Sexy!” -Kim Belair: CEO and Co-founder of Sweet Baby Inc. That quote is from Kim Belair’s long-defunct (and as of today mostly erased) podcast, The Sexiest Podcast. It was one of several podcasts Belair was doing at the time. She was clearly throwing content at the wall to see what would stick. Sexiest Podcast completely failed to live up to its name. It was a podcast where Kim Belair and a friend discussed various things they wanted to have...
https://twitter.com/Godzilla_Toho/status/1852356885871251798 I could use more announcements like this.
