Television & Movies

Star Trek actor Wil Wheaton has made his stance on the HBO Harry Potter TV show very clear amid JK Rowling’s involvement.

However, claims that one major chain has already agreed not to screen "Ali G: Who Iz I?" are inaccurate

He played Parton's illiterate dad in movies about her childhood. Now, he's being called out for not being able to read the room as the world mourns the beloved country music icon.

As summer starts to wane and fall starts to settle in, Lilly Wachowski has just the show for you to get into the spooky season groove. 

Cassie Workman Is Witchy AF, an eight-part weekly, comedic documentary series hosted by Australian transgender comedian Cassie Workman, explores the history and philosophy of occultism and magic. Set in a fictional occult bookstore and featuring puppetry and practical SFX make-up, the show finds Workman diving into the worlds of “ritual magic, identity, demons, tarot, love, death and possible salvation,” while also exploring topics such as occultist Aleister Crowley and religious movement Santa Muerte.

The half-hour mockumentary follows The Brovaries, a hopelessly dysfunctional, last-place softball team in an LGBTQ+ beer league in Mississauga, Ontario.

When team coach Joanne Pico (Jess Salgueiro) is dumped by her long-term girlfriend, who promptly defects to a rival team, she becomes determined to whip her ragtag squad into shape for a championship run.

While a number of the adult cast members have distanced themselves from Rowling’s views, it’s estimated that she’ll still make tens of millions of pounds each year as an executive producer and the primary rights holder.

And Rowling has continued to use her fortune to provide financial and legal support for individuals and groups challenging trans-inclusive spaces, policies and workplace guidelines.

When I was a teenager, I went to see a movie in theatres. I'd only ever seen Robin Hood as a cartoon, the Disney movie. This one featured Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Alan Rickman, Christian Slater, and a bunch of other cool people, and it had Robin Hood light an arrow on fire and ~~shoot~~ loose it. (That's in the IMDb trivia for the other one. Archers are ordered to "shoot" but they would have said "loose" in Robin Hood's day.) So it was cool as hell. It became and, for many years stayed one of my favourite films, warts and all. The lead actor, for example, Kevin Costner, could not get his English accent right, so the director let him use his American accent. Everyone else around him used period accurate accents but Robin of Locksley talked like an American. I don't care, the movie was still awesome.

The movie was popular enough to quickly become the target of a Mel Brooks parody, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, which I must admit, is a pretty good Robin Hood movie in its own right. And I still like the Disney one. And the 1938 one. Everything after Men in Tights sucked, though — at least in my opinion. I hated the 2010 one, and the more recent one with Taron Egerton was just okay.

Then I heard there was a second Robin Hood film released in 1991. It's not great. I just watched it. I mean, it's a solid 6/10, but the pacing is all over the place, the lingo is just bad (Robin refers to cash, soldiers are called thugs, and other modern lingo), you see a car in the distance at one point, at another point Will Scarlet stumbles into a stone wall and it buckles like cardboard... it's low-budget AF. That said, it's a solid Robin Hood movie. It's just not a great movie. It's better than the 2010 one and the Taron Egerton one. I haven't seen the newest one, The Death of Robin Hood. I've heard bad things... as a Robin Hood fan, I'll see it, for the same reason I just watched this one: it's Robin Hood.

Of course, the best Robin Hood is the Director's Cut of Prince of Thieves, as it expands upon Alan Rickman's Sheriff of Nottingham, who's really the best character in the film. Sure, you root for Robin and Marian, as you should, and Christian Slater steals every scene he's in as Will Scarlet (as he did back then), and Morgan Freeman is never dull, but we're all just watching for Alan Rickman... right? And nearly all of the Director's Cut's added half hour is dedicated to Rickman and his character. It really changes the scope of the film, it's no longer Robin's movie, he's just a byproduct of the corruption of the Sheriff's involvement with a Satanic cult, and bribing Richard the Lionheart's enemies against him.

But, the other 1991 Robin Hood ain't bad either. It's just not good. But if you like the legend of Robin Hood and his merry men... you can do worse.

Edit: Topic title is kind of a lie. I was alerted to the presence of the one I linked a month or so ago here on Lemmy. So if you remember telling me about it and you're thinking "you didn't learn about this just today," then thank you.

The damage done by lacking representation stretches well beyond the screen.

In a video from 19 August, captioned “this might be the most controversial move ever by Disney”, a voiceover says that Disney has announced in an “official statement” the beloved mascot is “undergoing gender transition surgery to become Moxie Mouse”. It goes on to claim that the move is being made in the name of “inclusivity, diversity and understanding”, saying: “It will help reduce the stigma around transgenderism, especially with kids.”

Hayden Panettiere, the star of “Remember the Titans,” “Heroes” and “Scream,” passed away at the age of 36. And Hollywood failed her terribly.

'It: Welcome to Derry' has been renewed for Season 2 at HBO.

Best Divorce Ever comes from writer/director Sean Mullin, with Concourse Media launching worldwide sales in Toronto

The damage Trump’s second term is doing to trans representation in media will long outlast his time in office.

The new film about the US culinary titan is entertaining. But it undersells his legacy and sidelines the workers, many immigrants or people of colour, that to him were the real stars of the restaurant industry.