Being royal gives you access to the best schools and resources. Individuals and businesses will go out of their way to accommodate them. That gives them access to special knowledge and powers and if you asked me, having the capability to call the most powerful people in the world and get them to fulfill any reasonable…

The publisher behind the overwhelming majority of this coverage is Rupert Murdoch. The publisher behind the overwhelming majority of climate change denialism in Australia, even in the face of the wildfires, is Rupert Murdoch. The press baron behind much of the mad dash to war in Iraq in both the US and UK was Mudoch.…

I described the MCU as Ice Cream to my GF the other day and the analogy works just as well. It isn’t substantial enough to call a meal, it’s a snack but an always fun and delicious one. Some flavors are better than others (Guardians is a favorite while Thor 2 is kind of the Vanilla Bean) but regardless, I always have…

In the latter decades of the 20th century people experienced a collapse in meaning; religion lost its luster and traditional social goals (like the marriage, two kids and car in the garage) came to feel hollow and pointless. People looked for meaning where they could find it. Some found it in a series for children.

Okay, so I’m one of maybe eleven people in the known universe who doesn’t really have strong feelings about Star Wars — to be clear, I don’t hate it, it’s perfectly enjoyable, but I also never drank the Kool-Aid — so I’ve really got to wonder; when exactly did the fanaticism kick in? Like the real, hardcore,…

The famous scene where Paulie throws Adrian’s turkey in the alley originally had a followup scene.

You’re just mad you didn’t get a robot.

Somehow I completely missed this movie when it came out. I’m going to have to find it streaming somewhere.

It’s still hard to remember that he wasn’t nominated for Punch-Drunk Love

Can’t imagine what you mean, he didn’t say a word about Rogue One.

The sad thing is at this point the only attitude I have left is ‘good or bad I just can’t wait for this to be fucking over so it will be easier to ignore the people bitching about it’ which, even with the prequels, is never a point I thought I’d hit with Star Wars.

Dammit, you chucklefuck, your intentions were perfectly clear. You wanted to hurt and embarrass a total stranger because some stray gross impulse darted across your lizard brain and being a white male, you never even thought to resist or question it. You honestly expected her to find that funny or at least “laugh it…

Academy voters? Maybe?

I don’t think your wife is uber-vanilla if she’s willing to peg you. 

Most underrated pop culture of the 2010s? You guys. By that I mean both AVC and Gizmodo (formerly) Gawker Media. Throughout the last decade, both AVClub and io9 were my go to sites for movie, tv and comics coverage. Random Roles and Morning Spoilers were my favorite regular features, and both sites had (have) the…

Beautiful Darkness stuck in my brain. Terrifying and indelible.

I’ve read four of the ones on the list and I personally enjoyed The Vision more than three of them.

“You think that’s the goal? DON’T BE RIDICULOUS, OF COURSE THAT’S THE GOAL!” ~ Billy Eichner, probably

Allison Jones?

Or Michael Schur?