Except the UCB didn't broadcast it. A post to a private Facebook group for female comedians made it public. Later the accused claimed on his own public Facebook page that his accusers (who he claimed not to know, but somehow he knows it was them) put out fake press releases claiming to be the UCB, announcing the UCB's…

If by "get punished for their crimes" you mean "go to prison" then you're talking about a feature, not a flaw. Because systems which shift the burden of proof on the accused are pretty damn awful, and because it would be just as (actually, probably much more) difficult for someone to prove their innocence of rape than…

As I understand it, the network secures gigs for comedians. As someone who works with freelancers, there's some real liability issues the UCB could be facing because of this member. If you're warned that someone is a rapist, and then you send them on a gig and they rape someone, then you could be sued. And that…

I was going to say that if you're interested in Asian film rather than Asian-American film, Secret Sunshine is a a good (but harrowing) mother's tale.

It often feels as if filmmakers don't think the immigrant experience on its own is a strong enough topic to carry a film, so the protagonists of their films have to be outsiders to their own community which often means being gay. Alternatively, it could be that gay Asian filmmakers have an advantage in getting their…

Even though it came out in '82, First Blood is really a 70s movie. He doesn't die at the end, but he sure looks headed for a long prison term. As with many 70s movies, the only triumph at the end comes from survival (or the prospect that someone will tell the tale).

As John McCain can tell you, once you buy a Sarah Palin, they do not accept returns.

"The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness. "

You discount the possibility that one or both of them are standing on milk crates.

Martha might still have some valuable information for them once debriefed. Another possible value that extracting blown assets might've had for the Soviets was propaganda—they liked parading around defectors as a show of strength. Additionally, it probably helped their agents' morale to know that their government…

Trademark certification or GTFO.

Yeah, I don't think Darwin's given name was used at all in First Class, and there was no indication the character was anything other than African-American. Not that this is a thing, but he got blackwashed.

That's a decent trivia question. Oscar Isaac beat Hernandez to the block as a super-villain in this year's X-Men movie (although his character, Apocalypse wasn't Hispanic). Adan Canto, who's Mexican, was Sunspot (a Brazilian superhero) in Days of Future Past, which is close, but Brazilian isn't Hispanic and Sunspot…

I'm fairly certain that the only reason Snyder has not been fired is because some high-placed Warner's execs would have to go out the door with him. Instead, they're in George W. Bush mode, where the only thing to do is pretend Snyder did a great job and give him the Presidential Medal of Freedom on his way out the…

The women who take those roles because they want a "lucrative career" pressure all other women to buy into this sexist system. They keep the system going. Is it unfair that individuals sometimes have to sacrifice personal gain to achieve a greater good? Possibly. But throughout history individuals have made those…

"What's the opposite of "imminent", in that it's already happened?"

I'm not putting all or even most of the blame on her, and I'm certainly not letting anyone off the hook. I'm just saying that her share of the blame is more than zero.

While the roles Hollywood devises for women overwhelmingly suck, there is a ton of passive voice in this piece about how Robbie "is portrayed" as if she has no agency whatsoever in selecting the movies she works on or how her character is presented onscreen.

[Werner Herzog, on camera, listens to @avclub-4b8dbaa429f18373947e25594eb17f40:disqus's momcast on headphones, frowning]

It's a sequel to The Wind That Shakes the Barley? I didn't even know that was a comic book!