I don't think anyone knows if "China" is uninterested. It's a few folks on some committee who didn't let it through. You're not really taking their excuse at face value, are you?

Ah, I came to the TDS later into its popularity than I first thought.

Didn't it take a few years before anyone began to care about Jon Stewart's TDS? I wonder if CC will give Noah the same amount of time to prove himself.

What appeared to be a homeless man once approached me and asked if I wanted to go the Barry Manilow concert at [local hotel].

Mine still works okay (today) knocks on wood, throws salt over shoulder, besides being periodically logged out and delayed notifications.

It's why I've been puzzled at the MCU films' runaway success. They're okay? That's about it. They aren't worth rewatching and I can barely remember details from one film to the next (which works against me, as the films build on details from earlier entries). And the characters' that I find most intriguing (Nick Fury…

After watching "Death Comes to Pemberley" the other day I started to think about the determined romanticism UK filmmakers have about the UK's aristocracy. I had to remind myself that the Queen Liz is still around, to explain it, but you'd think there would be way more films and series about the more disruptive times…

The whole time. Made me wonder if the casting was deliberate…but for what purpose? Even his facial expressions seemed meant to draw deliberate comparison to Leo's.

I did already state the caveat about it being superhero myth blockbuster. It being fiction does not give it special protection from certain kinds of interpretation when it parallels, on some level, real world rhetoric and incorporates a real country's actual symbolism and mythology . When you state things like " Cap…

Certainly the film sets up everything so that Cap A is in the right. After all, the obvious UN substitute was bombed 5 mins after his decision, to highlight how it was weak and easily manipulated. And they lock up the other supes. We'd be stupid to side with anyone else.

Interesting. I haven't read the comics but the latest version of Captain America in Civil War reminded me a lot of present day USA position when it comes to any kind of oversight from international bodies (while, of course, making decisions that affect the globe, more or less unilaterally): fuck off, I know best, and…

I'm sure many of us appreciate it when black celebrities make these kind of statements without worrying about the commercial implications. Jesse Williams made a great point about this subservience to "brands" and what that means for those of us in the diaspora whose ancestors were enslaved.

This is the problem with flawed systems tho. Regardless of how good the intentions of the persons are, if the system is fucked, the results are, by and large, fucked. That's the first thing. The second thing is that good persons do fucked up, biased, sub/consciously racist/sexist/bigoted/whathaveyou all the time. It's…

Thanks. Apology accepted :). It's a topic that is prone to get our gander up. I didn't take it personally because I do get it…his record (if what I saw posted further down was accurate) is enough to get any reasonable person upset and disgusted.

It's not about an outpouring of grief. It's not about martyrdom. It's that such dehumanisation is exactly what leads to extrajudicial killings of a particular group. When we start to create categories of persons who "deserve" more consideration, even if merely rhetorical, it erodes the ability of the system to treat…

Both Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were "every day Americans". I understand your attitude but I'm uncomfortable with it in this context. Criminals, even sexual offenders are "every day" humans too. I'm just too used to criminal records used as a tool to devalue black life. (I don't know the details of the case…

No clue. *Not interested. You implied that she was a celebrity who adopted a morally superior attitude yet never spends any money "to make the world a better place". I pointed out that you were wrong. That's all.

Rihanna lecture ppl on how to behave? Uh huh.

I wouldn't say that. A person and a script aren't precisely of similar substance. If the script didn't bowl him over enough to undersell (as he saw it) his services, why is that shallow? There are only so many meals you can feast on with the "For Art" lifestyle. I don't think anyone foresaw how big GoT would get.

I'm the opposite. I haven't seen The Good Dinosaur but I prefer an original over a sequel, in theory, 99% of the time, even if it's a bust. I figure thems the breaks. The Incredibles is one of my favourite Pixar films but I feel no excitement about the sequel…