Would I be revealing myself to be an insane madman in your eyes if I said I also enjoyed BvS? I don't think it's anywhere close to Watchmen's level, but I do think it did some interesting things (more so with Batman than Superman) and isn't nearly the travesty its reputation would suggest.

Very true!

It's worth seeing. Heavy subject matter, but it's treated with a reasonably light touch, and Crudup and Yelchin are both great in it. The music is actually pretty good, too.

That's a fair assessment.

He made a compelling movie. Maybe the ideas didn't originate with him—it's an adaptation, so I don't see how Snyder can really be faulted for this—-but he still presented them in a cinematic and interesting way. I've talked about this movie a lot with fans of the graphic novel, and they all say the same thing about…

I do like the idea of Big Daddy being a Sundance darling.

I see more people shit on 500 Days of Summer these days than defend it. I like it; it's got its flaws, but it's entertaining and the rare rom-com that involved actual effort on the part of its makers.

Victory for you, loss for the persons unknown who never received their fried mozzarella.

Verite, who I'm pretty sure is going to blow up sometime in the near future. She's an electronic pop artist. Here's a song off her upcoming new album.

I've read Endless Love by that author but not Waking the Dead. I've heard, though, that it's quite a different experience from the film. In particular, the protagonist - Billy Crudup's character - is supposedly a lot less sympathetic in the novel, and things that are given concrete answers in the book are left more…

Ah, I didn't know she had a new one! Will have to check that out asap.

Man, I really wish he had answered "Waking the Dead" for that last question. It's one of my all-time favorite movies. Just an absolutely unique and heartbreaking story of love and loss, with terrific performances from Crudup and Jennifer Connelly. More people need to see it.

I love how this response works no matter what Trump is compared to.

I've read a little about this recently. "The New Jim Crow" discusses many of these issues, and the author herself expresses surprise at learning that affirmative action efforts, while enormously helpful to many individuals, did little to address underlying systemic issues. Thanks for your input; it was an…

Lovesick actually kind of fits the model you're looking for. At its center is another "will they/won't they," which at first revolves mostly around the main character, Dylan, but the focus grows more and more equally spread as the show goes on, giving Eve, Dylan's longtime best friend/crush, her own side of the…

I like that episode a lot. Stanhope was pretty great in it.

I listened to a recent segment on NPR where a guest made largely the same point as Ferdinand, and it was somewhat persuasive. The gist of it was that focusing solely on equal representation in the fight for equality is to try to fix the optics, rather than the root, of the problem. It makes sense, but I think it's…

The black civil rights movement of the 1960s was not silent on class conflict. In fact, it was a huge priority for MLK, and he was planning a march on Washington for economic equality before he was assassinated.

Barely, though.

Ask Me Anything is a relatively obscure but also pretty great recent movie about a young woman and the men in her life who use and mistreat her, both knowingly and unknowingly. It's entertaining and subtle enough that you can draw your own conclusions, but there's a pretty damning indictment of men's feelings of…