I think I can explain it with one word: “hot.”

Whether you look at this through the prism of game theory or realpolitik, Cersei’s decision makes sense. Like any crisis that requires shared sacrifice, if you can let others make the sacrifice and the crisis gets solved, you win. Take global warming. If the US does nothing, but every other country in the world takes…

It’s interesting you think Thompson is the cynic, when the article is one long howl about the cynicism of the studio that makes these movies.

I don’t think Friedman is a fascist or even a full-fledged member of the alt-right. (Alt-right adjacent, maybe.) What he is is a reliable mouthpiece for the center-right establishment and a conduit for the conventional hawkish wisdom, regardless of whether the hawks in question are of the foreign policy, deficit, or…

Does literally everything written about GoT have to meet your standards before it’s published? I mean, there are 10 or 12 pretty serious articles a week at the various Kinja sites (three at least on AV Club). If you can find one you like, maybe don’t shit all over the ones that are not for you, but which other people…

I saw the title “Pancakes, Divorce, Pancakes” and the second Pancakes triggered a memory and a fit of giggles that caused my wife to ask if I needed help.

More to the point, no-one to point the finger at next time the team goes 4-12 (assuming it ever scales those heights again).

This is a man whose reaction at the time conveyed how thrilled he was that the terrorists had helped his building become the tallest in downtown Manhattan. It wasn’t even true, but it did help us understand the true import of the events of 9/11.

thanks for this, but there does not appear to be any mechanism to donate, either on their website (coming soon) or Facebook page.

I looked at the headline and thought, the jokes just write themselves. Yet I had to go through three or four comments to get to this one.

“it’s rating means teens literally can’t see it”
That’s exactly what it means. But I do worry that if we talk about it a lot, one of these “teens” you speak of might get the idea that they could sneak in to an R rated movie—maybe by lying about their age to the super-competent movie theater security specialists—and…

Robin Hood is a made up character too, and they’ve made a ton of movies about him. Let them have their fun.

So as long as he was killing for money, it was cool? But now he’s killing for self-preservation... In any event, I’m not sure we’re supposed to sympathize with Barry.

I am aware that some people consider the game they play in the American League to be baseball. They are mistaken. In the same way that people who consider checkers to be chess are mistaken. So there is only one baseball team in New York.

“shlooter”

Not a phrase. Try “portmanteau”?

Hell Up In Harlem!!

Also, not related to the blaxploitation theme, “Best Seller” is a solid B-movie from back when James Woods was tolerable.

Sort of related, but has anyone ever used “santorum” in movies or TV?

I see your “holy mother forking shirt balls” and I raise you a “yippee kayak, other buckets.”

My wife and I had our first date to a movie I’d heard about called “The Bad Lieutenant” (which turned out to be a much more interesting take on Catholicism). I found it very promising that the sight of Harvey Keitel masturbating on a car was apparently not a turn-off for her.

It’s like learning that the Bratva is trying to infiltrate the Mafia.