This is the one where there are no good guys in the movie so the deck is stacked against her from the opening credits.

Yeah, I haven't noticed a huge distinction between men and women in terms of how much they like the movie, but essentially everywhere except here, it seems like the men I talk to/read comments from are far more likely to see it as "just" an action movie or focus on the action elements to the exclusion of all else,…

Gigi is probably the last great MGM musical—I wouldn't slot it among the greatest Hollywood musicals ever, but probably just outside? It's not a bad choice, but Vertigo is better, and I say this as somebody who doesn't particularly care for Hitchcock.

Walden is owned by an evangelical Christian/politically conservative guy who only bought a media company in order to make family-friendly movies with 1950s-style morals to them and market them to Christian crossover audiences. That's literally the reason they exist.

I think that's shortchanging season one a bit, which covered a lot of ground re: how our justice system is supposed to work versus how it actually works.

They will, but all the faux Muslims will be played by white British people.

What it boils down to is that they've been trying to make The Silver Chair for near-on a decade now, the main characters have aged out of the series and will have to be recast, and saying "we're rebooting it" is sexier than "we're recasting some characters."

They've explicitly said that they didn't want it to be a true crime podcast. I don't remember them saying it was going to include a mystery every season, but given their reaction to how last season turned out (they were pretty appalled not only at the behavior of fans but at the media as well), I'd be surprised if…

Something that someone else pointed out to me is that in military terms, there's a big difference between "AWOL" and "desertion." What Bergdahl described doing—temporarily leaving and trying to create a DUSTWUN—would qualify him as going AWOL, which is a comparatively minor crime. Taking off permanently, as many of…

I think they were probably looking for something that will draw black audiences again, since The Wiz went over much better/drew more viewers than Peter Pan (and Peter Pan drew so much criticism over its treatment of race).

To be fair, it seemed like she had some family issues that may have affected the roles she got, too. (Her parents were controlling which roles she took well into her 20s, and I think they were pretty strict about it.) Which is not to say that Hollywood isn't terrible about weight, because of course they are.

I think a good question to start out with is whether you're attracted to a certain race because you expect all members of that race to be a certain way/be more likely to be a certain way (more submissive, less submissive, sexier, more manly, have bigger dicks, whatever). Or likewise, if you're not attracted to certain…

Something like half the guys I've dated have had dark hair and blue eyes. I don't know if that's an actual "preference" I have or if it's just a way more common combo than I think? In general, dark hair is big for me—I've only ever dated one blond guy—but beyond that I've dated…

Given that the reports we have of the jury suggest that most of them were initially in favor of acquittal but were somehow later persuaded to vote him guilty, I don't think their ability to understand reasonable doubt or the evidence itself is the problem here. They understood the evidence and they understood…

Mostly because it's a lot harder to treat season two as fun entertainment the way people did with season one (which I suspect was part of the reason they picked it).

People can be entertained by things that they know are objectively bad.

To be fair, she actually wrote Go Set a Watchman first, and To Kill a Mockingbird second, so . . . still kind of true.

Yeah, the season one actors manage to sell bad dialogue as character flaws rather than writing flaws.

Yeah, it's not like "Time is a flat circle" (or 20 percent, give or take, of Cohle's lines) is any less cringeworthy; that is stoned-college-freshman-takes-his-first-philosophy-class bullshit. It's only McCoughnahey that made that stuff work and sold it as a part of the character, rather than a facet of Pizzolato's…

As soon as Momsen got famous enough to get away with it, she got really bratty about how dumb the show was and how she was better than it, she would never dress like that in real life, etc. I'm certainly not bagging on her because we've all been 15 and obnoxious at some point in our lives, but I think she was really…