“I didn’t read any of the actual reporting on the details of the allegations, but I feel perfectly comfortable criticizing them as baseless.”

“I don’t know enough to comment on the 2015 allegation,”
You should probably have stopped typing when you got to that point in the comment. If you don’t even know enough in this day and age about the effects trauma, guilt and shame that have on victims then no comment at all would suffice.

Not that I think the Austin Powers movies were any particularly high moment in the history of cinema, but I think at least there they were parodying the Bond films, where the female leads change every film with almost no explanation.

It’s good they at least recognized and admitted to how shitty it was to do that to Shue’s character, especially since it was just one in a loooong list of different movie franchises where a female character was written out/killed off-screen to give the male protagonist a new love interest to pursue (see: both of the…

Pitchfork had a pretty in-depth report on the victims’ experiences as well as Butler’s response. That should take care of both halves of your question. (To save you time, skip the first 7 paragraphs. The detailed accounts begin with the paragraph starting with “Lily (a pseudonym) says...”

The other thing I find striking here is the lengths to which the various power players involved seem to be going to protect Ezra Miller. They’re not Brad Pitt famous or Cate Blanchett talented or Tom Hanks beloved — how many rank and file Americans are even familiar with Ezra Miller? Is America suffering from a bad…

Oh, what, so Issa Rae thinks she’s Better than Ezra?!

Katie Rife wrote some great criticism of this film and the issue she took with it wasn’t so much the use of a fat suit, as it was a misunderstanding of what it is to be obese, to portray his life as pure misery as if the obese cannot experience any joy. That the film doesn’t really seem to understand. That it is…

The Jaunt is a great short story. There’s barely enough for a half hour Twilight Zone episode. But then, they made two movies out of The Lawnmower Man.

I thought part of the problem with At the Mountains of Madness is that Prometheus came out and GDT felt the plot was too similar.

I always thought of Cabot Cove when there was a Law & Order episode involving Hudson University, which is clearly a college only parents wanting to get rid of their children in violent fashion would send them to.  I bet life insurance was completely unavailable in that town.

It really seems like Murder, She Wrote is a show that - more than most - transcends generations and interests.  I had the usual surliness of a teenager, but I have very distinct and fond memories of watching the show with my parents, and I’m pretty sure in the 14-16 age range that was one of the few times I was…

Without her the killer is probably going to get away with it. 

I used to watch Murder, She Wrote with my grandmother; I lived with her for a brief time while my parents were going through a difficult patch. To this day those are some of my nicest childhood memories, sitting in front of the TV eating Riesens and doughnuts and watching Angela Lansbury solve crimes. Rest easy and in…

The Republican party has a long history of supporting Israel but hating the Jews. 

At this point, given this has gone on for years regardless of whatever treatment he is or isn’t getting at the time, it’s pretty clear whatever mental health issues he has don’t have anything to do with having his shitty views. All they seem to do is affect just how vocally he’s currently expressing those shitty views.

Dude’s been a big supporter of white nationalism/supremacy, notable hater of “liberal Hollywood”, and has gone super evangelical.

And, the republican party still has this tweet up:

Back when I lived in Florida, there was one particular location where you could find two Publix on the same road, four blocks apart within sight of each other. I think one was previously an Albertson’s and they just never bothered to close it when it got acquired.

THIS I’ve been all over Florida from J-ville to Miami, and I have NEVER seen a single Safeway. Meanwhile, I’ve encountered areas in FL where several Publix stores just are within a few miles of each other. Who ever wrote this article must been too desperate to hit a deadline to do any research and just cited the first…

Legion below the Falcon and the Winter Soldier?!?