Walt Disney Studios had a much more magical earnings report than analysts had expected. The entertainment powerhouse behind Pixar, Marvel, and the world’s most trafficked theme parks logged earnings per share of $1.84, a 3% drop from $1.89 in the prior-year quarter. Disney also reported revenue of $15.3 billion, essentially flat with the year-ago period.…… Read More Variety Buries the Lede About Disney’s Film Division
Get obsessed over product, swine! Actually, this article at Digital Spy hews very close to verifiable fact, and leaves the theoretical where it belongs. A few pertinent facts: Mark Hamill will be back. Previously shot footage of Carrie Fisher will be used, rather than CGI. We’ll also see Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian Most of… Read More And Now For Some Mindlessly Speculative Guff About Star Wars Episode 9
Actually, Thomas Fitz hates tomatoes, but Caligulia is there for his politcal theory and and we start rounding the bend on the third act of Ulysses and the Fugitive. It’s a strong issue. Read it here for free.
As the post below shows, I put a new episode of my long-dormant podcast up. I did so for two reasons: I Have Things To Say Beyond The Scope of This Blog. Recent event have made me toy with having things to say on the subject of politics, but I don’t want to turn this… Read More Podcasting is Going to Be a Thing.
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/i5dqef/TDTU5.m4a After an unforeseen hiatus, Thumbs Down, Thumbs Up returns! We discuss the darkness in the American Political Climate as seen in the reactions to the March for Life incident, And we wax… poetic about the Poetry Foundation’s app. No sponsor ship from the Poetry Foundation or anything, we just really like the app.
Been a while since I came across a Megan McArdle piece I thought worth passing on, but this one is it. This past week the axe fell in the newsroom, most notably at BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post, but also… newspaper chain Gannett swung the ax through several of its publications this week, including the Indianapolis Star,… Read More Journalism is Dying Because It’s Not Free
Well, not nothing. There’s something to the final image in the final episode (I’m not going to spoil it. Watch and you’ll understand me). But it comes across as incredibly anti-climactic, given the sturm und drang it tries to build. I watched it last night, and my initial response was “non-ending”. Which, on further reflection,… Read More The End of House of Cards: Sound and Fury Signifies Nothing
I have no intention of watching the Oscars (although my wife might persuade me to hate-watch them), but I’m curious to see if I can call these shots with any accuracy using my default cynicism as a guidepost. With each category, I’m going to call make a Probable Prediction, and a Sleeper Prediction. I’m not… Read More Not Everyone Gets a Statue: Oscar 2019 Predictions
A little under a year ago, I fisked a Variety article written about the day after last year’s Oscars. My purpose was to make fun of Variety’s substanceless click-bait, but as it evolved, I emitted a handful of sneering predictions. Which is to say, inasmuch as I participated in the anticipation of a program I… Read More How Good Were My Year-Old Oscar Predictions?
One of these days, I’m going to write one of these that’s not about the Stuart dynasty in some way. Queen Anne reigned briefly at the beginning of the 18th century, and spent most of her reign at war with France over who got to sit on the throne of Spain (that Hapsburg penchant for… Read More Quick Review: The Favourite
