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‘Kidding,’ Starring Jim Carrey, Canceled at Showtime
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/kidding-starring-jim-carrey-canceled-at-showtime-1303220
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‘Usagi Yojimbo’ Animated Series Ordered at Netflix, James Wan to Executive Produce
Netflix is teaming with Gaumont on a CGI animated series titled “Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles,” which is based on the 35-year-old comic book series by Stan Sakai.
Rather than centering around the comic books’ protagonist Miyamoto Usagi, the series will take place in the far future and follow the teenage Rabbit Samurai Yuichi, descendent of the aforementioned great warrior, on his epic quest to become a true samurai. Yuichi will lead a ragtag team of misfit heroes – including a roguish bounty hunter, a cunning ninja, an acrobatic pickpocket and a faithful pet lizard – as he battles depth-charging moles, metal-tipped winged bats, and monsters from another dimension, all in the pursuit to become the best samurai Usagi.
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Wait, how did Usagi Yojimbo end up in TMNT anyways? That’s where I saw him fisrt…
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It does sound terrible but I know not long back Sakai was struggling with his wife dying and her treatment building up medical costs so he had to use up savings, so I’ll be happy not to watch as long as he gets a big fat TV cheque.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m really happy for Sakai to (finally) get that big media payday, but I just wish it was something that sounded like it was using the full potential of Usagi.
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Don’t worry, I got that, just added that even if it’s shit I’m happy for him (but would rather it wasn’t).
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Invincible: Robert Kirkman Reveals Full Cast for Animated Adaptation
https://www.cbr.com/invincible-robert-kirkman-full-cast-animated-adaptation/
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I read Paper Girls volume 3 for the Hugos last year and loved it, I need to go back and get the rest.
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The BOYS are back Season 2 clip
p.s. the Whale is not CGI
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Boys has been picked up for a third series as well, and an aftershow hosted by Aisha Tyler
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Poor whale.
I find myself looking forward to this even more than I thought I would.
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PETA’s probably gonna have another bitch fit.
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PETA’s probably gonna have another bitch fit.
Fuck PETA.
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It’s hard for the MTV concept now I imagine since Youtube and Spotify will deliver music to your tastes. Economies have meant music videos have been cheap and not very inspiring for 20 years.
I absorbed music television between around 1986 an 1992. I absolutely kill on pub quiz on any music question of that era but I haven’t seen any need to watch it since. I mean MTV knew this 15 years back when they turned the main channel over to reality TV.
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Lovecraft Country is going to be released on Sky in Germany mid-month, which means I’ll probably get another Sky subscription for a few months (as I did with GoT and WestWorld). It’ll be a good opportunity to watch Stumptown, too, I suppose.
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Coming back to the first post ever in this thread…
Look who’s back: Spitting Image returns for our chaotic times
This could be interesting. I used to like Spitting Image a lot, and it’s a format that is pretty timeless (there’s a French counterpart that ran for years after SI, not sure if it’s still going).
But this is not the first time they’ve talked about resurrecting it. I hope it works out – if nothing else, those new puppet designs look pretty good.
But as ever, it’s the quality of the material that will make or break it. They had some very good writers and some decent impressionists on the original series (including some people who went on to become big names) – I wonder who will serve that function this time? The mention in the article of US writers suggests the feel of the show could end up being quite different.
Some of the new designs:
Pretty good I think, and very much in the classic mould, but it’s really the material that is going to determine whether this is any good or not.
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The Cummings puppet is great.
Yup the quality of the scripts is key but I do also think Spitting Image departed at the height of the Blairite spin doctor approach. Everyone media managed and well dressed enough to be pretty boring (apart from John Prescott).
We can’t deny the ‘characters’ are back in force in politics now.
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Ridley Scott’s Raised by Wolves trailer is out. None of you told me. Oh, and cool, he’s directed two episodes:
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‘The Ren & Stimpy Show’ Reboot Greenlighted By Comedy Central
The first series lost a lot when John K was fired.
Ren & Stimpy “Adult Party Cartoon” from 2003 was just awful.
Adult animation has really blossomed in the last several years. It will be interesting to see how John K fits into the new era.
it doesn’t actually say John K’s involved. And I suspected he won’t be, given the statutory rape allegations about him.
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That’s an intriguing trailer. And the show looks pretty amazing (as you’d expect with Scott directing, I guess).
I’m intrigued to see how Ridley interprets the spiral motif. It crops up time and again from the earliest known petroglyphs and right throughout art history.
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That’s an intriguing trailer. And the show looks pretty amazing (as you’d expect with Scott directing, I guess).
I’m intrigued to see how Ridley interprets the spiral motif. It crops up time and again from the earliest known petroglyphs and right throughout art history.
Have you ever seen Aronofsky’s Pi? References to spiral motifs and Fibonnaci will always remind me of that.
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When Black People Appear on Seinfeld
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‘Lovecraft Country’: A Nightmare on Main Street
As long as there have been men, there have been monsters. Lovecraft Country lands in a specific time and place for both, but in a way that feels universal as much as it feels scary. It’s one of the best shows HBO has made in a long, long time.
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I know the film you mean. I haven’t seen it. Should I?
It was described at the time as the best Jewish horror film about maths you’ll ever see. I really like it. Plus, it’s the first time Clint Mansell did a movie soundtrack.
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It’s really good, but like all Aronofsky it has its disturbing moments.
Depending on your mood, putting an electric powerdrill to your head could be wish fulfilment. Like Shazam, but for adults.
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Oh, that’s good then. I like Zach Levi type stuff. I was a bit concerned it might be some sort of spiralling dark paranoia-inducing affair.
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Oh, that’s good then. I like Zach Levi type stuff. I was a bit concerned it might be some sort of spiralling dark paranoia-inducing affair.
It’s not not a spiralling dark paranoia-inducing affair
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https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/macgruber-series-will-forte-ordered-peacock-1234730465/
Did… did they not watch the film?
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‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Creators Exit Netflix Live-Action Adaptation
Bit skeptical now of how good it’s gonna be.
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https://www.ign.com/articles/olivia-munn-in-talks-to-return-to-g4
There is another more definite link about this but that site is full of pop ups and ads so if you want it is on the site called the Wrap.
for Todd
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CD_xI6JgrWw/?igshid=1tyu0vu8e64pt
and The Boys reaction
https://twitter.com/JensenAckles/status/1295395258344198145
also liking
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDtxhuND-bh/
Iceman(fox X-men) joins the boys.
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Live action, grown up Power Puff Girls sounds like the Worst Idea Ever.
On the other hand, Dora the Explorer was genuinely one of my favourite movies last year. Any idea can be made to work, it’s all dependent on the execution.
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The Dora movie was loads of fun, I thought. But it helped that I was familiar with the original cartoon, having watched some with the kids years ago. Now they’re old enough to enjoy the subversion of some of those ideas in the movie.
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I had no idea David was so bloodthirsty. Have to say I agree with him. Since I haven’t seen Dora, (I’m thinking she goes out Indy Doom-style) what manner of execution did you have in mind for the ‘growed up’ Power Puff Girls?
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Yeah I tried to watch Dora the Explorer on Amazon because you recommended it, David.
I turned it off after 20 minutes. I … I might not have a heart?
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Trailer for Enola Holmes, which sounds like a terrible idea, but looks like a lot of fun. (Sorry, haven’t figured out how to embed a video.)
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Yeah, that looks like it could be lots of fun.
And to embed a YouTube video, you can just paste the link as plain text and the board should automatically convert it.
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And to embed a YouTube video, you can just paste the link as plain text and the board should automatically convert it.
No one likes a know-it-all, Wallace.
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Fuck Jon Voight. On Ray Donovan he slapped me across the face in the middle of a scene because he couldn’t keep up, then denied doing it. He forgot about the still photographer who was on set. Bottom line: Jon Voight is a major dick. #RNCConvention2020 pic.twitter.com/l7o2HQOxx9
— Frank Whaley (@TheFrankWhaley) August 25, 2020
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So…ummm…It turns out there are two movies called The Lost City of Gold.
I’d need some further clarification as to which version you guys watched (Ewwww David). This is a family board. I’m not familiar enough with Dora, cartoony version or otherwise, to ascertain which is which. This one didn’t give her name. Her boots are certainly made for exploring…something.
There’s only really only one version to watch:
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So…ummm…It turns out there are two movies called The Lost City of Gold.
I’d need some further clarification as to which version you guys watched (Ewwww David). This is a family board. I’m not familiar enough with Dora, cartoony version or otherwise, to ascertain which is which. This one didn’t give her name. Her boots are certainly made for exploring…something.
There’s only really only one version to watch:
I love the Mysterious ities of gol.
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andre Braugher on what needs to change about police shows
https://ew.com/the-awardist-podcast/the-awardist-brooklyn-nine-nine-andre-braugher/
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Sorry, haven’t figured out how to embed a video.
In your reply box there’s a tab for ‘visual’ and one for ‘text’. Switch to text and then just paste the Youtube URL.
It’s the same for if you want to embed Twitter comments too.
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what needs to change about police shows
I think the main thing that needs to change about police shows is that we (the entire viewing audience) need to accept them for what they are, which is fantasy shows, not realistic dramas. Not that I want to the revive the whole “way of the Western” thing from the previous boards, but the Western didn’t really die, it just turned in its stetson for a police badge. The same white-washed, conservative, blinkered view of the country that TV westerns of the 50s had simply survived in cop shows, changing from an unrealistic and idealised view of how America was to an unrealistic and idealised view of how America is.
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I think the main thing that needs to change about police shows is that we (the entire viewing audience) need to accept them for what they are, which is fantasy shows, not realistic dramas.
Yeah, this. I can’t imagine how they could possibly introduce the reality of the modern police force into a show like Brooklyn 99 without making it unwatchable.
I was reminded of The West Wing the other day (I think they’re doing a show getting the cast back together or something) and it made me realise that even the most critically acclaimed TV shows are nothing but pure fantasy.
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Maybe they could shift the focus from the cops to the forensics teams that investigate the crime scenes, there could be a series in that I reckon.
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So…ummm…It turns out there are two movies called The Lost City of Gold.
I’d need some further clarification as to which version you guys watched (Ewwww David). This is a family board. I’m not familiar enough with Dora, cartoony version or otherwise, to ascertain which is which. This one didn’t give her name. Her boots are certainly made for exploring…something.
I honestly do not know what this means but this other movie intrigues me.
No it does NOT! (Viewer, I turned it off after way less than 20 mins).
I very innocently and innocuously went exploring along the Amazon algorithm (Bloody Dora!)
I was going to reply, but that would require me to have the faintest idea what you’re all talking about, which I don’t
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Interesting that for The Boys season 2 Amazon are dropping 3 episodes and then dripping the rest weekly. I have never been convinced that just because it can be done that a full series drop is the best way to present TV. On this forum it had led basically to reduced conversation about a show.
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