You realize it's not a violation of someone's civil rights to kick them off a social media platform they're abusing, right?

Keep in mind we're talking about banning him from Twitter, not, like…America. (I wish.)

A guy so cartoonishly villainous in real life that they'd have had to tone him down for Leverage because the audience wouldn't believe he was a real person.

It just doesn't seem very challenging to me is all. Ten is hard, or even fifteen or twenty. Forty would not only encompass every movie I loved or thought was amazing in 2016, but leave plenty of room for stuff that was just okay and I probably wouldn't bother recommending to someone.

Theory of Everything, I at least did not actively hate. But there's not much to it besides the Oscarbait performances.

If it helps, it seems to make black people feel good about themselves, too. I saw it in a heavily black theater, and the audience LOVED it, and applauded twice.

It is legitimately satisfying to watch each main character succeed, in different ways, despite the deck being grossly stacked against them because of racism and sexism. Especially because it really did happen.

The spread in that church picnic scene did look pretty good.

Top forty? C'mon, even I wouldn't have trouble narrowing down my picks to forty.

Monae and Mashershala Ali share the distinction of both giving really great performances in Moonlight, and decent performances hampered by a less-than-brilliant screenplay in Hidden Figures.

It's Oscar bait through and through, but it's a hell of a crowd pleaser. I enjoyed it very much. It was better than, say, The Imitation Game (blech) or The Theory of Everything.

When I went to see Hidden Figures on Friday, in the classified briefing scene, when Katherine is hesitating to take the chalk (and demonstrate to a room full of high-ranking white male government officials and military personnel how badass she is at math), I heard a woman announce loudly, from somewhere behind me,…

Hey, fun Chipotle story: when I was visiting my parents in Austin over Christmas, my mother suggested we go out to dinner at "that taco place" she and my dad like, and then ice cream from the Amy's right next to it. When it got close to dinner time, I asked my dad which taco place it was, so I could look up the menu…

I don't think I've ever confused Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer after I'd seen them each in a couple of different things (although before I'd actually seen either of them act, they were indistinguishable to me because they both came to my attention as critically lauded, prominent black actresses with names that had…

Actually being offended over it seems like a stretch, but extended ribbing doesn't seem out of line.

Really? It throws me violently out of the film when the English dub actors mangle Japanese names, which happens in…pretty much all of them.

Not only is the SAC dub cast great, the translation handles little cultural tics like Kansai accents remarkably smoothly.

The Ghost in the Shell: Sand Alone Complex dubs are, bar none, the absolute best I have ever heard. To the point where I will sometimes opt to listen to them even though I adore the Japanese cast and I'm really attached to their voices.

I actually feel that way about the free-wheeling VIZ manga translations of the 80s and early 90s (which occasionally changed dialogue in translation to make it sound more natural, or to land the jokes better in English), before Tokyopop successfully sold the idea that stilted, highly literal translations done by…

Homophobes are notoriously not good at distinguishing between homosexuality and pedophilia. Probably even worse at it back in the 50s.