J.K. Rowling insisted that a portion of Harry Potter fans have quietly rallied behind her over the years, despite the "massive storm" that has unfolded online surrounding her repeated controversial comments about the transgender community. "I have to tell you, a ton of Potter fans were still with me," the author said on Tuesday's episode of The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling podcast. "And in fact, a ton of Potter fans were grateful that I'd said what I said. Read More...
The current wave of action-fantasy-adventure films derive from a great many diverse sources: old fairy tales, Tolkien novels, an engaging piece of kitsch like 1981’s Clash of the Titans. Yet somehow these movies all seem to take place in the same digitally glossy, generically medieval storybook mud kingdom, with the same essential battles and monsters. They offer intermittently fun and frenetic creature-feature eye candy and, too often, not much else. In Jack the Giant Slayer, which could have been called Jack the Huntsman Meets Clash of the Rings, a beanstalk bursts out of the ground, and it is fairly cool to look at, with humongous gnarly vines that twist around each other and shoot into the air like a vertical forest. Read More...
Warning: This article contains major spoilers from GLOW season 3, episode 6, “Outward Bound.” It may have taken two and a half seasons, but Melrose (Jackie Tohn) learned some valuable lessons about racism and comedy as GLOW finally took a good, hard look at the racist characters the women use as their wrestling alter egos. Her BFF Jenny’s (Ellen Wong) frustrations with her Fortune Cookie persona came to a head during the previous episode’s Freaky Friday-like show when Melrose used offensive jokes while playing the Asian character. Read More...
