@Roswulf:disqus - White people do grow tired of not only being accused of racism with no basis except a hunch, but also being branded as so intrinsically racist that everything we say, do or write is inadvertently offensive because we're just slaves to the system, even though that's a ridiculously absolute and…

I'm glad to see the compassionate worldview of Derek encouraged you to break free from the cynicism and hubris of the outside world by calling someone on the Internet a "fucking-prick" and "smarmy lowlife".

In the same way that in the criminal justice system, the onus is on the accused to prove their innocence than the prosecution to prove their guilt.

How so?  There's no relation between the Assad regime and the Brotherhood.

I liked Dano in L. I. E., but while he was mostly good in There Will Be Blood, there were times when his performance dipped into unintentional comedy (see: his girlish screams, particularly at the end).

This site must be rubbing off on me, because I first took that for "sucks off himself to drink alone for awhile", which is both horrifying and impressive.

The substitution of Richard with a servant boy is supposed to imply that real-life pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck was indeed legitimate, rather than an opportunistic imposter.

I actually prefer the original 1956 version, if only for the scene where the female protagonist is 'substituted'.  Ye olde acting is somewhat an acquired taste, but the way Dana Wynter was able to convey the character change with nothing but her eyes was fantastic (and a demonstration that a good performance is good…

@avclub-84e43a60237ffece9cd4c85c103e298c:disqus - Because there are undoubtedly thousands of people who have been through the Holocaust and horrific personal losses who didn't go on to commit immoral acts of their own, and even if they had, wouldn't be afforded the special consideration that Polanski received.

In fairness, the Twitterati were right on the money about that Boston bomber guy being Czech, whereas the so-called 'professional' media totally fumbled the ball and went after some Chechen dudes instead.

Good God, how do you function in life if you consider strident a gender-loaded term?

Don't apologise.  IWPFTQ presented his rebuttal in such a needlessly smug and abrasive way that you could have been downplaying the Holocaust and I'd still have been inclined to side with you.

The one that gave us the GIF of Donald Sutherland looking like he had just spotted a 75% sale at Selfridges, of course,

A thousand different generals, strategists, soldiers and princesses who all the sound the Goddamn same, at that.

This is the very textbook example of the Freudian excuse.

Did no one ever read the denouement for Ender's Game where (spoilers) the entire war was revealed to be a cultural misunderstanding, and the eponymous character is forbidden from returning to Earth because he exterminated an entire species?

If anything, Ender's Game is rampant with homoeroticism.

Dowd had the misfortune to arrive when all the reviewers we used to shit on migrated en masse to Pitchfork Presents The AV Club.  He then compounded this error by finding Iron Man 3 to be mediocre - along with just about every other film critic in the Western hemisphere.  Thus formed the hive-mind consensus of him…

Snyder's defence of Sucker Punch reminds me of that, "It's not bad sex; it's a parody of bad sex" line I pull out after every Saturday night.

By default, fiction means placing yourself in the mindset of characters utterly alien to yourself.  Neil Gaiman didn't have to be a deity to write, well, American Gods; or a young girl to write Coraline.