If only it was — the entertainment value of the court case would break the internet.

And hey, HBO would love it - plenty of opportunity for boobs!

That's a fair point - but I wish the media in general would be a little more cautious about using a rather obnoxiously reductive term. Or, as a teacher put it when I was at journalism school, take a second to ask yourself if assigning an ethnic descriptor is adding anything to your story in the first place - because…

No, I'm seriously saying 1) it's fucking lazy to talk about "Asians" as some homogenous mass, and gee they can't play Caucasians 'cause they got funny eyes? Damn, if that's not meant to sound racist (and I don't think it was at all) it really really failed to stick the landing. IMO and YMMV, of course. But, hey,…

Quite - I was very much in the "hated it" camp where The Tree of Life was concerned, even if it's reach far exceeded it's grasp at least it was making the effort. Too many films don't try at all. Not that there's anything wrong with the more modest ambition of making a perfectly competent entertainment either. You…

And my personal stylistic bête noire? FYI, Mister Chapman, Xun Zhou is not "Asian". She's an actor/singer/model who was born and educated in Mainland China and (IIRC) now mostly lives and works in Hong Kong. Lumping together several billion human beings from an incredibly politically and culturally diverse corner…

If that story just turns into STATEMENT STATEMENT STATEMENT STATEMENT STATEMENT, the people that could have their hateful opinions changed will stop reading, and that value in the story will be gone.

"How in the world could Cloud Atlas work as a movie?" has been the rhetorical question surrounding Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis' adaptation of David Mitchell's novel, which stacked six different timelines in a nesting-doll structure that unfolded in chronology for the first half and reverse chronology for the second.…

We've been conditioned to understand that a epicanthal fold on the eyes is an Asian facial feature, for example, so seeing an Asian actor like Xun Zhou play Caucasian is perceptibly wrong.

I appreciate Dawkin's writing and what he did to promote skepticism and atheism, but just like Harris and Hitchens, I can do that while still harshly criticizing their dumber stances and comments.

FYI, what you do with your eyeballs and browser is your business. Thanks for sharing, but I'm not sure what your point is.

but I'd hate for the franchise to become so politicized that it is destroyed by it's own plot history.

And don't forget the native folks who rather neatly divide into sluts and psychos. Can't have an Eli Roth joint without that.

I don't see viggo taking up any role in the marvel universe.. this is a man who's outlook on his acting is "i've done it, it's in the past" and takes it to such a degree that he didnt even do the LOTR extended commentaries with the rest of the cast..

I endorse all the above. I also wonder what the emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and former Professor for The Public Understanding of Science would say about those who argue staff at "elitist" schools should come down from their ivory towers and worry about "real issues" instead of crapping on about b.s. like…

It well may be - Moffat was the chap who coined the phrase "timey-wimey, wibbly-wobbly stuff after all. :) For my taste, his addiction to being a wee bit too clever-clever for the story's good is his worse vice as well as a virture. When it serves the storytelling, you get Blink; when it doesn't you get the more…

Sorry, I didn't make myself very clear. I've got an annoyingly un-geeky part of my brain that doesn't get too fussed about not having previously seen a character who didn't exist at the time. Bernard Cribbins is a national treasure, don't get me wrong, but Wilfrid Mott was a very lucky piece of re-writing after it…

Also, Rory's dad was presumably at their wedding reception.

Oh, I'm sure Watson is far too busy somehow coercing Dawkins into making incredibly condescending and intellectually dishonest blog comments so she can "coat-tail" on his reputation. Or something.

This is general comment not a personal slam but why does there have to be a Tweet definition of "feminism" anyway. Oddly enough, where men are concerned they don't have to be a spokesman for a multi-billion strong Borg collective to be taken seriously on any issue.