"Housewife" implies she was a homemaker, and the article you linked to includes her profession and place of work. And from the NYT articles I've read, the reasons behind her stopping on the tracks are unclear. She is at fault for the deaths and injuries, but there are no indications it was a suicide that killed…

Yeah, I think they got that wrong there, unless Gabe was supposed to be a support personnel and got caught up with the unit (which I doubt, I think they just got that wrong).

He might just know French — I think in the comics he went to Howard University, so he's better educated than most for the time, if I've got that detail right. I think it's plausible that due to discrimination the army didn't capitalize on his skills until he was selected by Steve for the Commandos.

I think this is where time constraints of movies takes away from things. The army itself wasn't integrated, but Steve's Howling Commandos are, deliberately, due to Steve's own decision. Which further plays on the point that Steve looks like a model Aryan but has radically different values than the Nazis.

I don't think so. I might be conflating movies and comics here, but I think they were supposed to be cobbled from various units (also why you have a British guy and a French guy) who were all held captive by Hydra, and then Steve hand-picked them for his team. So Steve requested the team members, the Commandos…

There is nothing wrong about discussing and criticizing style, especially if style/aesthetics is part of performance. If you have a genuine reaction to a person's sex appeal or beauty, it makes sense that you would comment regardless of gender. If someone looks unconventional (whether naturally or deliberately) and…

I don't think criticizing a woman's appearance is inherently sexist. But even here, I notice (I'm more of a lurker than a commenter) the proportion of comments, favorable or unfavorable, regarding an actresses'/female characters' appearances as compared to critiques of their performances, character quotes,…

I loved Paul Bettany in Master and Commander, he was a good drunk Chaucer, and he was good in A Beautiful Mind even though I didn't like the movie as a whole. But those movies were ages ago, and he's had a run of either terrible or mediocre movies. He is playing Vision in the Avengers in addition to his VO work as…

I'm actually reading The Berlin Stories right now (I'm planning to watch Cabaret for the first time as soon as I finish) and highly, highly recommend it.

You've just never had good kugel, then. It's just baked rice pudding made with egg noodles instead of rice.

I'm surprised that Selma didn't make the list (or any of the individual ballots). I haven't seen it yet due to release dates, but it seems to have been very well-received generally.

I'm annoyed with myself for not having seen it yet.

I think a New Orleans setting, combined with the thieves' guild and assassins' guild, and maybe introducing Mister Sinister, could make for a really great Gambit movie. But I am so unenthused and don't see Channing Tatum in the role at all. I'd prefer Taylor Kitsch (who did fine with what he had to work with and was…

Also forgot to mention, this show has one of the greatest music cues I can recall: in the episode in the bank with the shapeshifter and the FBI agent coming after them, when they escape to the parking lot sans dialogue with Renegade playing, a bit of silence, and then that YEAAAAH! as they peel out—pure awesome.

I stopped watching after season 4 but have been thinking of rewatching a selection of episodes in order to watch season 5, since it seems like that was generally excellent. I definitely agree with the appeal of the brothers travelling to different small towns across America. Not only was it refreshing and made…

Thanks for the reminder on O'Brian. I read the first two and then paused, and never restarted (can three years still be a pause?), even though I thoroughly enjoyed them. I bought a cheap used copy of the first Hornblower book a year ago and never started it, and it's never moved to my stack of "should read soon." …

I grew up in a 90% white town as mixed-race and Jewish. I was pretty aware of being different from my classmates pretty early on, even though most of the time it was fine. However, I still vividly remember the times where it was an issue — especially, the times when adults/authority issues were the problem. I also…

I think Cap tries to be a good soldier and follow orders, and fails every time. He basically lied multiple times to get into the army in the first place, and then ran off to save his best friend, going against orders, with no plan whatsoever — helped enormously by the fact that Peggy and Howard Stark decided to lend…

Actually, Without a Trace lasted for seven seasons. /just looked up Eric Close on IMDB
I remember liking it passively, and it was better than average for the network procedural—not a high bar, but still—but it never really held my interest either.

Muppet Treasure Island's opening with the "black spot" portending death terrified me as a little kid. I remember crying in the theater while my older sister looked on, worried that we were going to have to leave.