Damn good year. And yet people thought it was a bad year because of a few high-profile disappointments.

Hell or High Water is definitely set in West Texas. East Texas might as well be the proper South.

Hey, you're \talking about the voice of Wildwing! Have some respect!

Or Kate Mara!

"No one with working eyes or exposed extremities would ever confuse Wyoming in the winter for East Texas or the border between the U.S. and Mexico."

I thought she was hair.

Nor a Darna movie.

"Josh gets more flack about joining the otherwise all-male soccer team than Emma does…"

I saw the first one in theaters. I thought it was boring except for the painfully generic yet unforgettably, horrendously chipper score, later to be used in trailers for boy-and-his-dog trailers at least up to My Dog Skip.

We've been saying that for literally a hundred years. Voter suppression will never go away, it's only the targets who will change as demographics shift within the party coalitions.

If ever there was a time for allegiance to mean something, it would be now.

That's correct, and does not contradict the previous statement.

I'm pretty sure I saw The Claim when it was Michael Winterbottom's excellent 2000 western adaptation of The Mayor of Casterbridge.

If you think Obama is President in Exile, you have no more respect for the Constitution than Trump does.

That's what he does to people who are nice to him. I don't know why, but this offends me in a weird, ancestral Middle Eastern sort of way.

It really is Indiana Jones week in the AVC comments.

Anadti?

Arabic has neither a letter C nor a letter V.

The Red Can and String goes directly to BSA Headquarters.

Because you're in the United States, it's standard practice, and the implications of refusing to do so are unsavory.