There is a sign that a movie exists in that sort of middle, lukewarm territory that is just below average but not enough to be offensive. Yes, I struggled to stay awake during Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers. There's nothing necessarily terrible about the movie. It's...
It's a lovely but sleepy Sunday today. There's little in the way of hard entertainment news after a burst of activity last week. The biggest thing we have scheduled for today is a review of Chip and Dale. That's how you know it's a newsy kind of lull. I thought I'd...
According to Deadline, as well as corroborated by Variety, it is looking like the third weekend for Doctor Strange will not be as kind as it was to Peter Parker. Spider-man No Way Home released to a gigantic first weekend debut. In the second weekend, it faced...
Signs point to The Walt Disney Company recognizing not all is grand with Walt Disney World in 2022. There have been some issues raised with the Walt Disney World 50th Anniversary Celebration over the last months. Not all guests have been pleased with the way things...
How hard is it for Disney executives to keep track of Star Wars? There are bigger flubs in this world. Former President George W Bush had a heck of a slip yesterday with the words Iraq and Ukraine. But for a company like Disney, which seems to be losing control of its...
It's time to start using verbiage that is reserved for emergency situations. It's time to begin considering that what might be hyperbolic in good times is best construed as accurate in the environment we seem to be facing. When gas stations are sending programmers to...
"A lot of my conversations with Deborah [Chow] were about wanting to convey this feeling of strength, but also coupled with imprisonment. There is this power and vulnerability, and I think that’s an interesting space to explore.” -- Hayden Christensen Are you...
The following article combines hard reporting and statements from Vanity Fair and The Direct with unconfirmed rumor from our sources for That Park Place. Please note that conclusions drawn from this article amount to speculation and should be understood as such....
What we noted here is that Mario is short. Like he’s actually shorter than Peach, so we gave him quite a high body diversity score for that. It is being mocked as the "diversitometer" and the "wokeometer." Activision-Blizzard has managed to go beyond the...
We don't normally cover political polling here at That Park Place. That doesn't fall inside the boundaries of what we cover here and for good reason: we're supposed to be covering the news that should be fun. So we're as surprised as you might be that we need to cover...
The Walt Disney Company is headed to court in a class action lawsuit that alleges Disney sold the Magic Keys program to customers using false advertising. The false advertising in question is that Disney supposedly told buyers that there would be no blockout /...
Looking at Netflix, one might think that their recent statement on employees who believe it is their role to oppose Netflix material is the first sign that entertainment companies are changing. But after what may have been the crescendo in the push for ideological...