Murphy’s stuff about women was worse than his gay jokes.  The latter stuff was kind of silly, and didn’t seem mean-spirited towards gay men.  His jokes about women had real anger behind them.

It’s interesting you bring up Murphy, because I was recently thinking the same thing and went back and watched a bunch of his old bits. He wasn’t afraid to throw the f word around, but his stuff really didn’t seem to be hostile towards gay men, just ignorant (AIDS jokes at a time when ignorance reigned) or ‘wouldn’t…

Oh, you mean actually having your first amendment rights violated, being blacklisted, and dying from a heroin OD against the backdrop of abject poverty and loneliness?

i like how you use the same comment to point out how the people making this gesture are primarily excited to make money off of gunn, while also deriding some unrelated bugbear of yours for making a wholly imagined complaint that the people making this gesture are a corporation.   

“Recurring Character Club” on 16! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7...

A fine season opener! I felt sure Linda was going to get that Ooh-la-la keychain as a consolation present, though.

The CGI work is genuinely amazing - they do make Robert de Niro look like a young Samuel L. Jackson.

“I'm gonna go get the papers...and nothing else."

As a kid, I once asked my dad if I could have $10 for a Guinea pig. He said "here's $50, get a nice Irish girl, instead".

“Hope I’m wrong, I like Scorsese. But this is a rather tiresome trend among these older male auteurs.”

Film Twitter and other hot take decathlons seem to be really slipping as far as the breath of Scorsese’s oeuvre and contributions to film culture as an archivist and workhorse. So much world cinema have been restored and given their due thanks to Martin and yet to some he’s just the Taxi Driver guy for bro-niphiles.…

“terrific, underrated Shutter Island”

All of which grew from the barbershop scenes in Coming to America. Which, in fairness, are the funniest parts of the movie.

Every piece of discourse on this movie has been dumb as fuck. Nobody that wasn’t at TIFF or isn’t a professional film critic has seen the movie. We don’t even know how violent it will be! The trailers don’t actually make it look all that violent! If it’s as inspired by King of Comedy as people say... it probably won’t…

When it comes to pearl clutching moral panic, the desire for censorship of anything they can read the wrong message into and equating art as some sort of dangerous mind control device, the left has very much turned into the right. This is exactly what the right did when I was a kid and the left railed against it. If…

Writer Who Makes Living Writing Outrage Articles Outraged At Artist Saying Outrage Has Become Commodity

I’m not sure you can compare that movie, where a bunch of bad guys are coming to kill him, so he kills them instead, with Joker. And... um... the whole John Rambo persona was created as a discussion about how we’re turning regular guys into trained murderers for reasons they don’t even understand, and then demonizing…

“Phillips argued that “outrage” has become “a commodity,”

“Also, everyone should know better than to try and argue that the left and the right are both equally bad in 2019"

His Klump work was groundbreaking. We wouldn’t have the Madea Cinematic Universe without it.