That first parenthetical is the reason we have semi-colons.

I'm sure it's been mentioned, but Tom Lehrer sang it best:

And we will all go together when we go.
What a comforting fact that is to know.
Universal bereavement,
An inspiring achievement,
Yes, we all will go together when we go.

We will all go together when we go.
All suffuse with an incandescent glow.
No one will have the…

Isn't it Willem Dafoe who falls to his knees screaming in Platoon? That's the image on the poster anyway.

"Besides, Star Wars is a standalone mythology, and can do what it wants."

I can't believe I read a site where these words are used by adult human beings.

It's about time some Americans starting trying to rip off the Dardennes bros. (I mean this as a good thing. I'm looking forward to this movie.)

It's not even her family, which somehow makes it worse. It's her shady lawyer and publisher.

Will no one think of her surviving family*?



* and by "family," I mean the lawyer who suddenly became her best friend after Lee's sister died, thereby leaving a likely incompetent Harper to agree to every potential money-making enterprise suggested by the succeeding lawyer, HarperCollins, and anyone else who saw…

I should leave this site and never visit again because that guy reduced the novel Cloud Atlas to "a writing exercise."

My answer is Pola X, Leos Carax's great adaptation of Melville's notoriously weird Pierre. If anything, the movie made the book seem even weirder to me, but made me appreciate it more.

Dear Hollywood,

Stop.

Why would you falsely brag about having whoopie cushions? They're cheap and readily available. He could have easily gotten one to authenticate his strange boast.

I don't know. That one line—"the only true First Lady is Death Herself"—kind of hit my snark sweet spot.

I love that song. Reminds me of teleporters.

As a parent, I hope to one day do something as awesomely cold-blooded as Mulaney's dad.

As a lawyer, it was pretty damn inspiring. I like how the movie seems to believe in his point of view, but still shows how everyone else abides by their own set of ideals that larger than themselves. There's right and wrong here (the Communists are clearly in the wrong), but very little self-interest. Everyone is…

1 minute and 10 seconds of it is just Pollard sitting down and quietly drinking four beers before starting the song again.

From my father's opinion, as a Jewish college kid when this came out, they very much did see Benjamin as "rebellious," though maybe not as some charismatic rebel hero. This wasn't Easy Rider to them. Instead, the movie showed one of their own making an awkward attempt to rebel. (Yes, Benjamin is a WASP, but the…

Yes, that Hanks.

Yeah, if these were originally thirty minutes, then maybe the length of the clips was enough that he wasn't operating within the Fair Use exception anymore.

That would be annoying. I kind of liked "Married" because it kept addressing the fact that the couple was broke. At least they rented their houses and frequently got kicked out when the owners wanted to sell.

And most the people who use that term are themselves social justice warriors, just politically opposite from the people they complain about.