Pass the popcorn: the Disney corporation has sacked CEO Bob Chapek and brought back Bob Iger. Chapek unsuccessfully tried to, if not arrest, at least slow the company’s slide into wokeness. But he was summarily bought to heel by it cohort of permanently aggrieved activist employees, most notably for
Sometimes I feel like I shouldn’t keep mocking The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, because it’s such low-hanging fruit. But then I remember that Amazon is one of the world’s biggest corporations, who’ve sunk a billion dollars into the show. All to destroy
Defenders of free speech often argue that the best answer to free speech that offends is more free speech that offends back. Salman Rushdie famously said that without the right to offend, free speech ceases to exist. Right now, we’re getting a great lesson in that principle, thanks to,
Warning Spoiler alerts. Finally, the BBC has seen sense and gone back to the traditional Dr Who. David Tennant has made a surprise appearance in Jodie Whittaker’s final Doctor Who story. Whittaker unexpectedly regenerated into Tennant at the end of the 90-minute special “The Power of the Doctor”. The
One of the first rules of Woke Club is that you never say anything not approved by Woke Club. Even though everyone in Hollywood knows, as Bret Easton Ellis says, that movies like Black Panther are rubbish, nobody will say so. Instead, they’ll all chant robotically in chorus that
One of the few delights of social media is watching parody Twitter accounts dupe the gullible and perpetually outraged. Pioneer of the art form, Godfrey Elfwick, is long gone under the banhammer, but the likes of RPGuy continue the fine tradition of satirising the Twitter left so effectively that it’
Nothing quite illustrates how far we’ve hurtled down the slippery slope of rainbow intolerance in just a few years than how so many popular and uncontroversial TV shows from just a decade or so ago are suddenly “problematic”. By which, of course, they mean that they trigger flappy-armed Tumblr
There was a memory hole in the opposite wall. O’Brien lifted the grating. Unseen, the frail slip of paper was whirling away on the current of warm air; it was vanishing in a flash of flame. O’Brien turned away from the wall. “Ashes,” he said. “Not even identifiable
As Dave Chappelle said, the iron rule of modern Hollywood is that you must never, ever, under any circumstances, upset the “Alphabet People”. Whereupon the Alphabet People proved his point by having a collective fit of the screaming mee-mees. To their infinite credit, Netflix stood by their man, refusing to
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Two big-name fantasy franchises launched new tv series, this month. One has surprised fans, who were expecting the very worst, by actually being quite good. But that’s enough about HBO’s House of the Dragon. The big focus of attention has been Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings:
It’s almost worth Tesla troughing billions of taxpayer dollars, just to watch Daddy Elon make Twitter cry. In the last year or two, Elon Musk has swum against the tide of corporate wokery and gone full Chad. Not surprisingly, given his long-standing disdain for Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, he’
