Eh, I thought the show was great. Took a few episodes to get going but I thought it knocked it out of the park in the last few episodes.

Holy shit. I had never seen that particular piece of F&F bullshit before. In typical Fox fashion running a segment based on complete lies and imaginary “studies.” To the point that the (quite conservative) LSU professor, who supposedly did a study, responded that there is no such study, this not my area of expertise,…

“My phone got hacked,” Córdova said. “I had bank account attempts of being hacked. My PayPal got hacked. My friends got messages. I got death threats. I got things mailed to me. People found out my address. It was a lot of that.”

When it comes to Tolkien, it’s complicated. In his letters, both public and private, he said stuff like (to a German publisher) “I do not regard the (probable) absence of all Jewish blood as necessarily honourable; and I have many Jewish friends, and should regret giving any colour to the notion that I subscribed to…

Wow, an interesting story from the new AVC. You could do a whole article on the writer Michael Wilson just by itself. He was a writer on It’s a Wonderful Life. Won an academy award for A Place in the Sun in ‘51. Wrote 5 Fingers, and Friendly Persuasion, both also getting an academy award nominations for his screenplay.…

So it sounds like they are mainly doing The Time of Contempt this season. 

The prescription opioid epidemic, that really started in the late 90s, and the only one conservatives care about, is primarily a white epidemic from all the studies I’m looking at. Though in more recent years synthetic opioids like fentanyl have skyrocketed across all demographics. The disparity in demographics was,…

That is the strength of serialized TV, no matter if it’s comedy, drama, whatever. It can build on and reference years of character interactions. It’s not a weakness of a series if someone can’t jump in the middle of it and understand all the references. That’s just the natural of serialized media.

Honestly, Freese getting Foo Fighters tour money is great. He’s literally the stand in drummer for a bunch of huge bands that you’d didn’t realize was him live. He’s a fantastic drummer.

https://www.flpd.org/home/showpublisheddocument/6713/638146727913300000

Fuck that. The boos and catcalls made this an actual discourse, as opposed to listening to this asshole millionaire lie and talk down to his audience unopposed. He had nothing to say that could possibly be enlightening or worthwhile. 

LMAO. I somehow missed they are putting Chuck on an hour long “live discussion” show with King. What? Has nobody watched him on NBA broadcasts? Like.... what? He, like Shaq, can be funny as hell, but only in a WTF is this live train wreck way that is that whole broadcast.

One huge advantage TV shows have is that the jokes can be built upon for their whole run, which allows them to fit so many jokes in episode that depend on prior knowledge in a way a movie can’t really. I specifically realized that about a month ago when having some relatives over to watch a Bruins game and Comedy…

While it’s true that US comedic movies aimed at adults aren’t as popular as they once were, it’s hard to take McCarthy seriously here when she’s made sooo many bad comedies since 2014, particularly those more recently made through her own production company, that bombed critically and at the box office, and they’ve…

Damn, that’s horrible. So young. Been a huge fan ever since Rome. 

but both companies have shown a complete willingness to strip content from their services for seemingly arbitrary reasons.

CG didn’t put a lot of stunt workers out of work. On the contrary, it reduced the amount of dangerous stunts stunt workers had to do. There’s a misconception that CG fully replaces actors and stunt people on screen. In reality there’s pretty much always a reference shot that’s then spruced up. So, for instance, if…

There will come a point in the near future where AI will be suggest to companies how to best monetize everything. Feed years and years of a companies financials and marketing into the dataset along with the same of their competitors and the algorithm will produce the most ruthlessly “efficient” courses of action.

Yeah, that’s much better. It’s not nearly as frenetic and has more of an intentional aesthetic and pacing. The Rexha video, while having some occasional cool imagery, just feels like a random onslaught. 

Blue Ruin feels much less reliant on action-movie logic to me but, I agree, one of the major factors as two why both work is the violence feels stripped down and sloppy and the characters are realistically a mess.