I want to write a sci-fi story about an America where it's against the law to like superhero entertainment past a certain, young age. It'll be a utopian tale. Humbug to superheroes!

Ruth Wison was rocking her Indiana Jones outfit. A terrific performance surrounded by a banal show. I thought during the ep that the series could have been radically reconceptualized by making Coulter the protagonist, so compelling is her role and performance. Lyra could have been the holy figure we sometimes see…

I don’t use the word much myself, but it’s only three letters long, completely benign, and the language of new diversity and new populations isn’t onerous. They’re just words.

Exactly. This “emotional sunk cost fallacy” (nice) feedback loop applies to many things, especially political beliefs. Why getting mad at Trumpers for how could you be this dumb, while it may feel good to get it of our chests, has the counterproductive blowback effect of making them believe in it even more. I don’t…

Good piece. I hadn’t known she was a sexual assault survivor. If fear of cis men is the key psychological reason for her trans bigotry, as the article suggests, how tragic she is this way, hurting others because she can’t get over her own hurt, in a cycle of hate and violence. And when the books she wrote, that came…

“Can I hug you, Miss?” No attempt to depict the kids’ pain and loneliness in a dramatic, character way, but just straight-out telling instead of showing. I was taken aback a little. I guess the scene needed to be short so they could get to other things, and so straight to the point and plot effect.

The excerpted qoute doesn’t support the claim that Jenkins is upset and angry that her movie isn’t in a theater during a pandemic. She specifically isn’t a good excuse to write an editorial which I otherwise agree with.

The show could have trimmed a lot of fat over these past two seasons by quitting with the repetitive dialogue and pointless scenes of how Lyra is special, how she’s destiny, what great qualities she has that make people fall in love with her. We got it very early on. Now it’s just annoying and an example of lazy writin…

You guys aren’t seeing the silver lining of this story: ANYONE is attractive. So if you’re morbidly obese or have zero self-esteem, don’t fret! You too will find a partner, because you’re better than Martin Shkreli, and he found love. And on top of his loathsome qualities as a human being, remember she fell in love…

Can Hollywood let McTiernan direct movies again? 

There’s no fucking rule that says in order for you to be a Christian, then you also have to be a fucking moron. Faith has been part of humanity since its inception, and believers still made good and smart decisions that didn’t endanger the lives of others. Being an atheist, I have no dog in defending Christianity but…

His family’s not on the “to survive” list because the 7 year old son has diabetes? Well, that’s just mean! What kind of post-apocalyptic world are you people running here?

I’m glad Mank, Da 5 Bloods, The Vast of Night, and I’m Thinking of Ending Things are on here.

Welcome. Hope you like them.

It’s pretty fitting Gordon “Greed is good” Gekko is playing his real life political model; the president who more than any other made possible the radical hijacking and transformation of America, its economy, and its government, by the corporate right into the oligarchy we live in today. Alas the film isn’t about…

40 years of government distrust, followed by 30 years of alternative fact-free media and a culture of disdaining experts and high political partisanship that has driven two Americas believing in two different realities. Check out Kurt Andersen’s two most recent books, Fantasyland and Evil Geniuses.

I mean both the Coens and Scorsese, and now Fincher, had their movies mostly be on streaming, after they were put in theaters for a few weeks in certain markets. And the first two directors’ films were released some time before the pandemic. And it’s not like Warner Bros won’t release Dune and its 2021 slate in…

It’s unbelievable to me that the org that runs this event I didn’t know about a few minutes ago doesn’t pay its hosts (not even scale?) and also expects them to pay for their hair and makeup. Screw that.

I guess if in this world there is God, or The Authority, and Angels, then we’ve already left scientific realism behind and evolution might as well have been teologically interfered with.

I was going to say Clarice doesn’t have any rage, but then I remembered her childhood and chip on shoulder, if that’s what they’re referring to. Is the line from the book and about her?