“There is less time for impulsiveness and joy, and the bar that Andrews sets as Maria or Mary Poppins can feel unattainable when you’re stuck checking your kid’s head for lice.” - HuffPost
Critics might never see them, and certainly never review them, but “these films are often huge successes for streaming services like Prime Video and Netflix — the Kissing Booth and Through My Window movies have been reliable staples of Netflix’s top ten. They’re popular in theaters, too.” - Vulture
Jessica Lange isn’t playing Chekhov, exactly, but in (HBO) MAX's The Great Lillian Hall, she is playing an actor who’s in Cherry Orchard - and losing her memory. - Washington Post
"The shuttering of Indian Time closes the final chapter on a legacy of journalism in this Haudenosaunee community, which sits 120 kilometres west of Montreal, stretching back to the 1960s that at one time produced one of the most influential Indigenous publications on the continent.” - CBC
There's been some concern expressed about this, so journalist Steve Pond looked into four high-profile awards that have gone gender-neutral in the past few years. In this admittedly small sample size, are actresses being shortchanged or do things basically even out? - TheWrap
When the strikes ended, workers in Hollywood hoped their schedules would finally fill up again. But for many people, things only got worse. - The New York Times
It was considered a blockbuster back in 1924, and its producers were pioneers in movie-related merchandising. It faded from public view after the talkies arrived, but a print was rediscovered in upstate New York in the 1940s, and a restored version has been getting centennial screenings this year. - The New York Times
Yep, it's true. The 21-minute film, The Junky's Christmas (1993), was written and narrated by Burroughs and produced by no less than Francis Ford Coppola. And it's right there on YouTube. - Open Culture
"CBS executives thought the 25-minute program was too slow, too serious and too different from the upbeat spectacles they imagined audiences wanted. A cartoon about a depressed kid seeking psychiatric advice? No laugh track? Humble, lo-fi animation? And was that a Bible verse?" - The Conversation
The songs form the basis of the highest-grossing musical in the history of Broadway. Thirty years on they remain embedded in our collective consciousness, so Lin-Manuel Miranda could be forgiven for feeling wary about being called on to provide the tunes for follow-up Mufasa: The Lion King. - The Independent
In the show's 55th season. producers are trying to re-orient it to keep it alive. Its core audience of toddlers and pre-schoolers is different than in the 1970s, there's vastly more competition today, income from DVDs has evaporated due to YouTube, and HBO has cancelled a lucrative deal. - The Washington Post (MSN)
Obviously everyone is different, but Alissa Wlkinson does have some general guidelines to offer. Among them: remember that people are more susceptible to tears at 35,000 feet. And don't assume that the films are all disposable pop stuff; there are frequently award- and festival-winners on the menu. - The New York Times
The successful roll-out of fast broadband in the UK has allowed streaming services — led by the US giants, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and Apple TV+ — to demonstrate the dynamic power of subscription as a funding mechanism. - The Critic
In 2023, more than 10,000 developers lost their jobs; one-third of game-makers surveyed at the beginning of this year reported they’d been affected by layoffs in some way. - Wired
