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Twelve people got paid to write this!

"And we will all go together when we go.

I don't understand. Is the premise here that After Hours is a bad movie? If yes, then I still don't understand.

I know! And it's David Thomson, who, whatever his flaws, has decades of respected criticism under his belt. The book review section is where AV Club puts its most presumption little twerps, I guess.

Under the Skin. I was coming down with a flu at the time, and probably feverish. But the screaming baby on the shore—so soon after the birth my second child—and the terrifying vision of the men getting dissolved and pulped or whatever really busted my brain. I've never finished it.

I'm from there! But I'm not famous.

Hence the longest state name in the U.S., Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Unfortunately no one addresses them by their formal name anymore and shortens it now to the vulgar "Rhode Island."

So deft.

There was one in particular—the young blonde woman—who made some very convincing arguments about "white genocide" (presumably non-white people doing the genociding?) and how JJ Abrams is "Jewish filth."

I should have dug deeper. I always miss the legit racists. But I found some lovely anti-Semites to start following.

I clicked on the hashtag to find out if it was real. 99% of the tweeters were people scolding the boycott people. I saw only a couple genuine boycott tweets and they were by hardcore Nazis. What a fascinating Twitter window this one opened for me.

How do you keep up with the news like that?

I didn't know that about the original Major League ending. How odd…

I watched it a few months ago. It was pretty great, featuring a roster of great directors like Demme and Todd Haynes. And I generally hate everything Mike White does.

I don't doubt that Hollywood sexism is a problem, but if her agent (based on her name alone) couldn't get the equivalent of what they paid Renner in Hustle, then I hope she fired that agent.

She must have the worst agent.

"You see, white guys have names like Lenny, whereas black guys have names like Carl."

Invest your tuppence wisely!