FWIW, all the characters in When Harry Met Sally started off young and aged as the movie progressed so were supposed to be established professionals during the primary time the movie takes place. Harry was divorced and Sally had lived with someone for a time. I don’t remember them having lavish digs but it’s been a…

Even if that were true though, it only supports the idea that it’s a racist conceit because what you’re saying is that white people don’t, won’t and shouldn’t watch things that don’t feature them and only them as the focus. While everybody else, of course, should.

I have to say, as a black person, I tend to default to white unless it’s explicitly noted in some way, by name, description(and not golden skin, dark skin, nut brown etc... because those have been used to describe tanned white people plenty) and then I pause for a minute, specifically because of what we’re discussing…

Sure, that’s why two movies with multiple black characters got nominations for the white people involved.

Maybe the ‘good reason’ is so that non white people can experience some sense of representation that isn’t mostly limited to villain/victim/sidekick or racially themed cause/suffering. There are lots of studies about the importance of representation on the development of children and on erasing the idea of the ‘other’…

Think of it like this. Media is the all you can eat buffet for white people, while people of color starve in the back alley and occasionally find a half eaten sandwhich in the dumpster. Now if a starving person grabs a plate from the buffet and multiple people look up from their full tables and bitch about it, they…

Racebent Hermione became a bit of a thing based on her description before it became a real life thing in the play. FWIW, JK. Rowling has been extremely supportive of the idea.

ah but is he athlete/celebrity passe blanc?

We’re taking my 10 year old nephew. Know exactly what it’s about but considering he’s played both the Deadpool game and Bulletstorm the language and violence are no biggie. He covers his own eyes during sex scenes because he finds them gross.

Don’t love that era of studio films but I love classic movies and film history, even the dirty stuff so I not only really, really liked it, I would love to see a series based on it.

I have a feeling they don’t care about the killing but the swearing and sex is just taking it too far.

If Billy doesn’t learn about gratuitous sex in a dark movie theater with filled with adults he’ll just learn about it in a back alley.com somewhere. Deadpool is the perfect opportunity to open up the discussion in a thoughtful way. “When a woman who gets paid for sex and a man who gets paid for murder love each other…

See and the two movies that were on my must see this month, were Hail Caesar and Deadpool. Seen Hail Caesar and seeing Deadpool this weekend. and seriously I’m lucky if I see 3 movies a year. Really liked Hail Caeser by the way but then I’m the intersection of Coen Brother’s fan and TCM fan that someone mentioned were…

age of consent is a pretty arbitrary thing all around. You might be older and slightly smarter at 18 than at 16 but plenty of 18 year olds prove that they are adult in name only, so really it’s more about at what age do you have some agency. IIRC drinking age is much lower there as well.

Looking forward to arguing over what statement Girls Having Orgasms is trying to make and whether it fulfilled the directors vision.

Really I’ve always felt that they refuse to label him with anything because then you get into the issue of if his behavior should be used for laughs. If they don’t say he’s on the spectrum or asexual or what have you, then they can mine it for comedy without having to deal with any reprecussions.

Decided to do this yesterday, not because of fear of food borne illness but just because the store I was at charges a $1.00 extra than I usually pay for the bagged stuff. Got 3 smallish heads of lettuce and 1 bundle of spinach. Now I’m stuck with 3 large containers of mixed salad for 2 people. Even eating salad 3…

isn’t that void already filled by Dion Phaneuf and Elisha Cuthbert, or maybe by Candace Cameron Bure and Valeri Bure? Though I still lament the album full of songs — no doubt appropriately titled 88, that we missed from the narrowly avoided Taylor Swift/Patrick Kane hookup.

Honestly one of my first thoughts was that if Creed had been a story about Rocky’s long suffering, noble butler or some crap, Michael B. Jordan would have gotten a nomination, then it made me start to consider the POC roles that have been nominated for awards and how nope, it’s never somebody inventing a mop or…

because life doesn’t always have a happy ending, so why not enjoy happy endings where you can? I don’t know about miket10 but if I don’t emotionally engage with characters I can’t enjoy something and if I’m emotionally engaged then it bothers me when bad things happen to them. If enough bad things happen then the…