Yeah, I really hate that when it happens. It is possible for men and women to work together in a professional capacity, or to just be friends, without inevitably falling in love with each other.

Yeah, people who abbreviate terms are the real assholes. Not the people who drop into a thread entirely based around that term to proudly profess their disdain.

NEETs? Who are you, Norman Tebbit?

You could have just googled it…

Comin' atcha' four years in the future, but here you go…

If they don't think Dowd shares their tastes, why bother reading past the byline? They should just find another review.

Yeah, I never quite understood why people were piling on Fox. I mean, F4n74571c F0ur was a hot mess, but the 2000s version wasn't very far removed from Marvel's current wheelhouse and people actually like the X-Men films.

Pretty much answered yourself at the end, there.

See, this rather plays into my pet peeve that musicals are homogeneous, and that 'musical' is even a useful or precise term in stage analysis. What's the similarity - technically, thematically, even song-wise - between Cats and The Last Five Years, say? If a musical is simply "a play in in which singing and dancing…

I don't really get the attitude of complaining about reviews. Either you heed them or you don't, but why bother disputing the details of a film you haven't seen yet, or bringing up the author's past reviews as if they were a previous sex offender to try and 'prove' them wrong? It seems more a search for validation…

I think the real takeaway from this conversation is that we assume reviewer X to be better and fairer than reviewer Y right until they fail to give a good enough review to a film we liked.

I really don't think the chain of responsibility between Abigail Williams and the Salem trials is comparable to that of people manning the Berlin Wall. The latter were fully-informed adults who literally pulled the trigger; Williams was a pre-pubescent child whose actions, distantly and inadvertently, caused the…

I don't think any allegations of abuse should be automatically conflated with SRA. The accusations against Saville et al. weren't buried because of the 'Satanic panic'; they were buried because they had powerful friends in the political system, or exposing them would have been too embarrassing. Again, this isn't an…

To be fair, the spoiler was relevant, because it exposes the reprehensible thread that runs throughout the film, which is useful and informative to those deciding whether they wanted to see or not. He didn't give away the game for no good reason.

The problem with punishing 'false' accusers in rape cases is that (a) someone can believe that they didn't rape someone even when they did, or that someone did consent even when they didn't, and (b) rape is notoriously difficult to prove in court, so a failure to prosecute or an acquittal does not mean that the…

How is the Orkney case an indictment of alleged victims of abuse and not the overzealous, incompetent handling of the Social Work Department? It was not the child who made the allegations who "broke up families, got children seized and had people sent to jail"; that was the responsibility of the social workers, the…

For one thing, truisms oft-repeated do not become less true. The criticisms of Prometheus might be boring or repetitive, but that doesn't make them wrong.

You do realise he gave it a B+, right? So your disagreement works out at being the difference of half a grade.

Shenanigans. She and Fassbender were the only convincing parts of Prometheus - a film that managed to destroy Guy Pearce, no less.

I do like that the explanations for the inconsistencies merely highlight them.