Ironhold

The aforementioned "Fantastic Four" film is pure cheese, such that some folks do in fact want to see Marvel man up and permit an official release. As far as older television shows go, check your local cable or satellite provider. There are a whole slew of channels dedicated to older programming in the US, such as MeTV, Retro TV, Antenna TV, Cozi TV, and others. Most offer a mix of programming from the 1950s to the early 2000s, with anything that might truly be questionable (such as "The Alfred Hitchcock Show") or dated (most anything in black & white) typically reserved for the overnight hours. From there, a few anime bits I can recommend: Lost Universe - Cult classic sci-fi anime from the 1990s. The main characters are a trio of "trouble contractors", heroes-for-hire who handle everything from escort missions to anti-terrorist operations. They're good, but they're also very, very eccentric... and with good reason, as for all three some of their eccentricities are tied to tragedies that happened in the past. Content-wise most episodes are between TV-G and TV-PG, but some of the episodes do deal with dark themes that include death. Nozomi Entertainment, the company that currently has the rights to the English dub, has put all 26 episodes up for free viewing on their YouTube channel. Robot Carnival - Cult classic sci-fi anime anthology from the 1980s. Then-fledgling APPP commissioned this film as a showcase of what they could do, and it's generally regarded as helping fuel the anime boom in North America because of it. It's seven shorts featuring robots book-ended by a pair of shorts about the titular Robot Carnival, an automated traveling show so badly suffering from decades of neglect that the screams it elicits are from fear instead of glee. Discotek did a new release back in 2016, with a Blu-Ray out late last year. Transformers - Karyuudo Fansubs (look them up on YouTube) has been slowly doing subtitles for various Japanese Transformers series. "Car Robots" is kid-friendly burning justice (this version of Optimus Prime transforms into a fire engine), and Beast Wars Neo is due out this fall, but you'll want to skip Beast Wars II due to the juvenile humor in the source material.

What age range / rating range are you looking at? Does it matter what it costs to get them? Any particular genres to favor or avoid? edit - And yes, I have to ask - Everything above board, or wink wink nudge nudge? edit edit - Before anyone says anything... There's a plethora of material online whose legal status is, to put it best, unclear. Many of these items may still be legally owned by someone in some fashion, but the owners aren't enforcing copyright and may have even functionally abandoned the material. For example, the infamous 1994 Roger Corman-helmed "Fantastic Four" movie was regarded by Marvel Comics as so potentially damaging to the brand due to how awful it was that Marvel ordered all of the prints destroyed, but one print survived and the footage was released online. The Fantastic Four as characters are still owned by Marvel, but with the destruction of all but this one print and the lack of effort by Marvel or the studio to suppress copies thereof that are online could be argued as abandonment of the film itself. Or there's the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, which was similarly deemed so bad by the powers-that-be that all prints were supposed to have been destroyed; at least one print made it out, and other people still have the videos they themselves recorded when it aired. One doesn't have to do much effort to track it down, either. This is a grey area that some people just aren't comfortable with, hence my asking.

Infinity War Violence? Yes. Heart? No.

My reservation is for tomorrow. Today I'm bracing for that gender-reversed remake of "Overboard" that's set to come out next week by re-watching the original so I have a proper frame of reference. If I'm familiar with previous incarnations of a film, I reserve the right to make comparisons. ...

The original "Civil War" story arc was a lot *worse* than that. The basic plan was "How can we get supers fighting each other?". What things degenerated into was "a whole bunch of writers going off on their own and using the event as a means to voice their political opinions, up to and including declaring that anyone who disagreed with them politically was no better than a Nazi". Most actual honest observers regard it as a massive misstep, and perhaps the first clear sign that the social justice movement had infiltrated the comic industry.

Sgt. Stubby. The studio had to make a kid-friendly film about WWI, and do so on a limited budget, but they more or less pulled it off.

So are we looking at just books, or would this include other entertainment?

Define "fiction". Genre? Format? Et cetra?

Gene Simmons is Jewish. He was born in Israel, and after he and his mom came to the US he spend much of his youth in a religious private school. By his own admission, during the 1970s when the whole "KISS is Satanic!" bit was at its peak, he got a kick out of quoting the Bible right back at the Bible-thumpers who'd go after him. I kid you not.

Rampage (2018) It's a good popcorn flick, but it's not for kids. Among other things, it's a running gag that Dwayne Johnson's character once taught the gorilla how to make obscene hand gestures as part of the sign language training.

Depending upon what part of Austin you'll be in, you could spend that long waiting in line at one of the better restaurants. No joke. Austin is pretty much a "destination" town nowadays, given all of the educational, cultural, entertainment, and culinary destinations in the city. We'd need to know what you're into and what part of town you'll be traveling through.

"A Quiet Place". There's no reason to bother with this movie. I couldn't find a single redeeming bit to it.

As someone who *lives* retro gaming and retro pop culture, the film just left me cold. It tried way too hard, and for minimal results compared to other similar films.

Spirit Halloween has a pre-existing Bob Ross costume, complete with wig and beard. Might want to check out their website.

Basketball: If someone is bleeding, you're doing it wrong. Church Ball: If someone isn't bleeding, you're doing it wrong.

"To Sir, With Love" Sidney Poitier brings his best to the role, but you can tell that the film ran into a number of difficulties during production.

I've been trying to tell people this, but it's not what anyone wants to hear right now. So long as kids continue to be bullied and ostracized through no fault of their own. So long as administrators continue to care more about their jobs than their schools. So long as the curriculum doesn't teach real character and real class. So long as there's fame to be had in opening fire. So long as parents continue to ignore their children. So long as law enforcement doesn't take warnings seriously. So long as campuses aren't secure. So long as mental illness, radicalization, and other issues are ignored. So long as all of the above continue to happen, you can confiscate all the guns in the world and we'll still have dead kids. It's the culture and the mindset that pushes people over the edge, not the weapon itself. Even a properly-sharpened #2 pencil can do horrific damage to the human body, after all.

Sherlock Gnomes. You're better off forgetting that this movie ever existed.

Tomb Raider (2018) A far more human treatment of Lara Croft than the first live-action movie or the Top Cow comics, but otherwise it doesn't rise that much above being a generic action number.

In business school I had to do a case study on an alcohol company's low-end booze product. Something tells me that the case study in question was no longer assigned once I was done with it...

I'm actually an MBA with a background in marketing. Between that and my time on the job as a movie reviewer, the official promotional material for "Wrinkle" sent up all sorts of red flags. This included the focus on the big-name celebs and the race & gender of the director as opposed to any sort of focus on the movie's plot or writing. Something like that is rarely a good sign.

Disney's "A Wrinkle In Time". Imagine that it's Christmas morning. You see a big, shiny, prominent present sitting right under the tree, and it has your name on it. Inside the box you find a dead possum. As someone who's actually read the book, that's what this film felt like for me.

The rituals have to do with how one uses them. For example, you're supposed to bathe *before* you actually get into the hot springs to prevent from contaminating the water. As far as "mixed" baths and "mixed" hot springs go, they're rare, and the ones that *aren't* intended for families to bathe together in are generally going to be off-limits to foreigners.

One story that's commonly told is about how the LDS faith managed to get a temple - not just a chapel, but a temple - behind the Iron Curtain. When the decision was made that the members behind the Iron Curtain needed a temple of their own, the church selected a spot in East Germany. The local and regional leadership of the church went in through the front door, made it clear to the local Communist authorities what was going on, worked with them closely during the construction process, and continued to work with them through the open house phase and into the completion phase. Because the church was up front about everything and did everything within the guidelines, the local authorities were more than eager to rubber-stamp anything the church requested of them, especially after realizing how respectful and dignified even non-Mormons were during the open house... such that the authorities refused to believe that such a large number of people had gone through; it wasn't until they saw the ledger where people had signed in that they'd realized how many people had been there, as the authorities didn't think it possible to have such a huge gathering of persons without conflict. This story is frequently brought up as a tale of what can happen when the church successfully works within the law to go about its mission.

"Death Wish" (2018) If you can get past the blood and gore, it's worth it for the philosophical points raised.