Like when he was tapped into making Land of the Pharaohs or when Joseph L. Mankiewicz got roped into making Cleopatra.

No joke, when I was a kid reading the book I always pictured the male lead as a black dude. In an early chapter it was established that he was on the basketball team and the concept of a white basketball player didn't occur to my child brain.

I think she'll land on her feet. If she manages to settle this case somehow some way within the next year I don't think it will be long before she re-invents her image, puts out an album full of self empowerment anthems and "veiled" digs at Dr. Luke, and rides a wave of sympathy to high record sales and Grammys.

When was the last time a mass number of people actually went through with a boycott? It seems like every time one gets called for there are either so few people who care that it doesn't matter or there's a Chick-Fil-A situation where the boycott only seems to encourage the people on the other side of whatever culture…

Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner/rapist… doesn't mean he doesn't belong in a history museum.

"you can’t force someone to work…in a situation in which they don’t want to work,”"

I didn't realize just how many of those direct to video animated things there were.

Love has also been arrested for physically assaulting various people during various drug episodes… which probably isn't exactly the equivalent of domestic abuse exactly, but in the public eye Brown is probably demonized less for physical abuse than for basically acting as an enabler and co-dependent addict with Huston…

My two word response to the "she wouldn't be viewed this way if she were a man" argument is "Bobby Brown."

So this is why they invented laugh tracks…

Because Oscars are decided by 6000 sending in secret ballots and not a small committee that gets to calculate such things. It's kind of hard to convince people to vote against what they (apparently) like just to give the organization better PR, it's not like the voters are getting royalties off of how many people…

I don't really understand this argument that Carol is so different from all the other LBGT themed dramas because it isn't "tragic." Yes, the movie technically doesn't end with the characters being outright killed, but it's still a movie that's steeped in melancholy and discrimination. Carol is basically forced into…

Surprised someone hasn't tried to do this with Room yet…

Someone on the internet said something stupid. Shocking, I know. As with the Mad Max thing, reporting on this nonsense will only amplify this message.

There are a lot of lazy crutches that TV writers rely on, most of them don't elicit angry think pieces. If people think depicting rape is harmful to society or offensive, fine, but I always find it a little disingenuous when people (maybe not the person I'm responding to) scream bloody murder about stuff like this…

Like most quality fantasy the show is set in a fantastical world but it's populated by characters who are still very much human and are driven by the same frailties and character flaws that afflict actual people and societies, to do otherwise would be to sever whatever connection the show has to the real world. …

Umm… Charles Barkley is certainly an amusing person but why in the world did he generate such huge ratings?

The whole point of this series is that it's supposed to be the same thing over and over again for 50+ years. All this talk about "rebooting" it and "making it fresh again" is to kind of miss the point.

HBO has been fucking with Aspect Ratios for decades. You'd think they finally have stop that wen 16:9 televisions became the standard, but no, they're still allergic to black bars even when they're relatively slim.

It's not that bad IMO. Nothing I'd ever pay to see in a theater or have any real interest in if not for the show, but it was made well enough and felt pretty professional. If it had debuted at a festival instead of as the season finale of a reality show that made its director look like kind of a pain I suspect that…