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27DecDecember 27, 2023

Disney’s Tower of Woke (Part One)

REPOST 12/26/23 I'm probably down for the week. Blogging will be lightTianna's Rain Forrest Cafe.There is an old adage in business; talent goes where the money is.There will shortly be a new adage; talent avoids where the Woke is.Google and Amazon became the powerhouses they are today because a generation ago (ouch) they were willing to spend big to get talent. And they got it. It says something about the level of people they were getting that one of the questions...

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23DecDecember 23, 2023

The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend – Rebel Moon

Yes, the robot is wearing antlers. No, I don't know why.Zack Snyder has always been utterly dependent on his writers. There is no great shame to this. If you can accept your limits as a creative professional and admit your dependence on colaborers in other fields, it is possible to create something extraordinary. Snyder has done this on occasion. He got his start in the music videos. Okay, plenty of directors have started out there and frankly, it beats filming porn...

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21DecDecember 21, 2023

Warner Brothers/Paramount Merger?

That headline feels like it's from 2019.Last week there was a rumor that Skydance was looking into buying Paramount, or at least buying Shari Redstone's shares of National Amusement which amounts to the same thing as NA owns 77% of Paramount. RedBird Capital is bankrolling Skydance's play so it looks like there is definitely something to this.Certainly, David Zaszlav thought so, because it seems to have kicked him into a panic move to merge with Paramount. I'm...

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21DecDecember 21, 2023

Anime’s Great – It’s the Fans That Suck: Spy X Family

Storge (store-jay) refers to familial love. Storge is one of the Greek variations of love, which describe different aspects of love, or ways to love other people. Most often, storge is described as the love shared between parents and their children I used to be a believer in writers setting up estates to protect their life's work. The past three years have forced a major reevaluation on my part. The absurd lengths of time that entertainment conglomerates have inflicted on copyright protection...

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19DecDecember 19, 2023

The Dark Herald Recommends: Wonka

This film is kind of a toss-up. It’s got a bunch of small things going for it but a few big things going against it. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory got its start when Roald Dahl was in school and the ferocious rivals of Cadbury and Rowntree would send sample boxes of their chocolates to various schools as part of their market research. The thing is these two companies really did hate each other and were constantly trying to steal each...

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18DecDecember 18, 2023

The Kang is Dead

Marvel has officially back to the villain drawing board.Actor Jonathon Majors has been found guilty of assault and harassmentA Manhattan jury found Jonathan Majors guilty on Monday of two misdemeanor counts of harassment and assault, but acquitted him on two other counts. In the domestic assault trial, the Marvel actor was found not guilty on one count of of intentional assault in the third degree and aggravated harassment in the second degree against his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari. Majors, wearing a dark gray suit...

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16DecDecember 16, 2023

RE:Play – Doom (30th Anniversary)

DOOM!PC gaming is doomed! Microsoft has bought up Blizzard and they already owned Bethesda. That’s it! It’s just gonna be consoles from now on. If it ain’t Xbox or PlayStation you ain’t playing! Game over, man. GAME OVER!Get your panties out of a knot. I’ve heard PC gaming is dead more times in my life than I’ve been killed in TF2. Guess what, these genius prophets of the gaming apocalypse have gotten it wrong every single time. Blizzard games might become...

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14DecDecember 14, 2023

Meet Apocalypse Elton John

A24 studios hasn't been terrible in the past. Truth be told they've got some good movies under their belt like Ex Machina and Everything, Everywhere All at Once. Civil War is clearly not going to be one of these good ones. I honestly don't know what the story is but the trailer looks utterly ridiculous. The first line is that 19 states have seceded from the United States. The Western Alliance is lead by California and... TEXAS?!?!?Anyway here's...

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13DecDecember 13, 2023

The Dark Herald Recommends: The Boy and the Heron

“Thinking like Copernicus that our Earth is a celestial body moving within the vastness of space, or thinking that our Earth is fixed at the center of the universe, are two ways of thinking that, in reality, are not only related to astronomy. Even when we think about things like the world around us or our own lives, the truth is that we are still revolving around them after all.” Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka, 1937 Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka,...

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13DecDecember 13, 2023

The Wolves are Circling Disney

I am in the process of writing a book on the decline of the Disney empire. Except I may be writing a book on the decline and fall of the Disney empire. I am really not sure how far Reedy Creek is going to reach. Sure anybody who looked at it figured that Mickey the Great and Terrible had had a hand in that cookie jar but we also figured that RCID was too much of a golden goose to risk...

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