"We're all children of Kubrick, aren't we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn't done?"
― Paul Thomas Anderson

Cook throwing dough at Serious Pizza, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas

Years ago, maybe twenty years ago, my son Lee and I (I guess he was about ten at that time) watched an anime series on television together, Cowboy Bebop. It was your typical bounty hunters in outer space kind of thing. Very stylish - odd spaceships, neo-noir atmosphere, women in impossibly skimpy outfits, an intelligent dog... that sort of thing.

But what I really liked was the music. A very jazzy eclectic score - it was greatness.

And now, after all these years, I see that Netflix is going to make a live action series based on Cowboy Bebop. The trailer is a scene-by-scene remake of the animated intro.

It looks like a lot of fun.

One thing that the fanboys are complaining about is that the female lead, Faye Valentine, has had her costume sanitized - gone is the skimpy bright yellow halter and hot pants of the anime. Yeah, I understand the objection but really? That was a cartoon woman - there is no way an actually living person could look like that. Really.

Out in November on Netflix.

In looking around I saw there is another thing - this time a movie, dropping in November.

I have (like everyone else) been a huge fan of Paul Thomas Anderson. I even enjoy his failures - such as Inherent Vice. Any director willing to take on a Thomas Pynchon novel deserves kudos - even if the film turns out exactly like you were afraid it would.

And now I see he is doing a movie due in November with the interesting title Licorice Pizza. I know nothing of the film other than its online trailer.

I think I'll keep it that way and go to the theater when it comes out.