Not just demons; unbaptized babies with blades for arms.  Because Literature!

The panic/anxiety at my school (that, as I said, I didn't share at the time, for whatever reason) seemed a little more justified, since one of the shootings was of a kid arriving at a middle school that fed into my high school, i.e. where a significant chunk of the student body of our school had younger siblings…

We didn't have anything quite as dramatic as that, but not being allowed outside the building meant that the dozen or so classes that were in the outdoor "temp" buildings were all held together in the auditorium.  My World History teacher tried to conduct a normal class for the first day, before giving up on trying to…

I find it strange that watching the trailer for this now brings up all sorts of thoughts and emotions for me, whereas while this was going on (I was in High School right outside D.C.) I remember my primary reaction being how pissed off I was at how inconvenienced I was by all the "safety measures" they were enacting…

There's bacteria on my apple?!

Nah.  Dante's Inferno has already been made into a movie a few times.

One of my most embarrassing anecdotes for childhood was that I wasn't allowed to watch this.  My parents decided it was too violent.  They mellowed out about this sort of thing as time went on, luckily.

Out of curiosity, how do you define something looking "slightly Canadian"?  Thin layer of maple syrup?  Apologetic, but not too sincere?  Extras drinking Molson Canadian Light?

I am genuinely shocked I had to scroll down this far to see this.

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus   Right, they vociferously proclaim their heterosexuality . . . while literally EVERYTHING ELSE about them drips with greek androcentrism and idealization of the male form (though I'll admit the sex scene seems out of place).  When I see an intelligent filmmaker engaging…

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus   Perhaps I was unclear, but I was suggesting that the horrible monster-y-ness being so over the top was what make it clearly an unreliable narrative, not that a Spartan happens to be telling the story.
This is just my reaction, obviously, but my first thought upon seeing…

Actually, I felt that stylizing it to the point where you had to interpret it as a "legend" was one of the greatest strengths of that film.  Play it too straight and Frank Miller's "good pure white people slaughtering the eeeevil arabs" narrative would've been pretty overwhelmingly disgusting.  As it stands, I think…

I did not properly budget for the amount of money I'd be spending to see concerts this October.  This, Janelle Monae, and Of Montreal all within a fortnight.  Fuck.

Yeah, this is kind of where I'm at with this.  Kanye's behavior is inappropriate, and I'm sure there's some sort of misdemeanor he could be charged with that I think would be fair.  But the guy suing for having to use "crutches for two weeks" is utterly ridiculous.

Florida would like to have a word with you re: watering down an important legal concept.

I was at that show as well!  And, yeah, she was/is amazing.

She said that?  Tom Cruise's performance is my favorite thing about that movie.

Oo!  Oo!  Excuse to share this since I found out about it only recently.

@avclub-3bb2b4067ab85fc44d550bd43bb7311a:disqus  And if you want to tie it even more directly to Willard himself, he was one of the most vocal defenders of BYU's racial policies, including objecting vociferously when other Universities started refusing to play BYU in various collegiate sports over their whites-only…

@avclub-5e550d516b252b5d3e9a239590372fed:disqus   Oh, absolutely.  I didn't mean to suggest that gerrymandering isn't a major problem, just that there are other significant factors at play.