STARSHIP TROOPERS is not the greatest movie ever. But for what it is, what it does, and what it means to be? It may be one of the most perfect films ever made. Whether you like it or not is a different question.

…that appeals to a broad swath of Americans who find very few shows that extol the virtues with which they can identify…

Naomi is just the bee's knees.

That's…beautiful.

That's true. It's not so much that I don't think white male filmmakers can't do that (I don't think that), it's that in Spielberg's case I don't think he is terribly good at leading the charge on the issue. There are white male filmmakers who could, though, and they should.

If that's the case then I can see Binoche's point. Especially coming from her filmography, even at that point in her career. By 1993 I think she had done Kieślowski's BLUE and other starring roles.

I figured she was probably offered the role that Laura Dern played. Wasn't she essentially the co-lead with the other two? Or am I misremembering the movie?

Maybe, but that's not what the news article implies.

I'm not sure the solution to this issue (and it is an important issue) is to make white male creators change their shtick, but that's all the more reason to promote female and POC directors and filmmakers and let them spearhead such diversity in lead roles. There is an element of "write/direct what you know" here, and…

She really has a thankless job in TRUE DETECTIVE. She has to be the glue for the entire season but she never gets the same credit for how wonderful her performance is like the two male leads. I don't think I've ever seen Monaghan in anything that her presence didn't elevate.

Come for Michelle Monaghan, stay for Michelle Monaghan & Woody Harrelson & Matthew McConaughey, come for Michelle Monaghan.

Look, I don't want the gift of an overactive imagination, but looking at all the potential catch-phrases Cosby could use, I can't help but get a pink-elephant-esque mental image of him yelling them while doing what he's on trial for now.

And they are eating, the tabletop slamming under the hands and the cooks grinning hideously over their canted pans. Towering over them all is the judge and he is naked eating, his small fingers lively and quick and now in doubletime and bowing to the ladies, huge and pale and hairless, like an enormous infant. He…

Somewhere, Jonah Lehrer is crying whilst masturbating.

It's all about the simulation of Poop, but there is no true underlying reality of the Poop. Ergo we must reject the pre-postmodern objective "scientific" hegemonic narrative of Western male dominated discourse, and accept the relativity of the pre-post-postmodern account of human Poop.

Haha!

Part of their kinkiness is using beer brand names as code for different sex acts.

O believe me, I have my ways of identifying people by their butts (nom nom), so you're good.

Ditto. Glad it spoke to you, mate.

Yeah, you've made really good criticisms about THE RETURN in the comments. It's not so much that I disagree with the majority of them, it's that I hope that the issues you've highlighted are there for a reason and that the show will eventually justify them. Not to speak for its other defenders, but I'd guess that…