The "he tied up Madonna and beat her with a bat" story is just not true, at least according to Madonna herself. Her words are that the story is "completely outrageous, malicious, reckless, and false."

But that's not even what happens. Ugh. I need a spoiler space to talk about this ha ha

I really think Dowd missed the point by saying it gives sympathy to witch trial hunters. That's a really weird takeaway. It's just not what it's about. I wish I could say more without making little spoilers.

I think he does such a good job threading that line. The ending is really great in that way. Nuff said.

The director said he screened it for a room full of era historians and they were impressed, I believe him. I saw it last night at a showing with the director in Harvard Square, so there are a lot of academic witch nerds in the crowd- they were chatting back and forth about the related scholarly work.

I saw it last night at a free screening, with the writer/director and protagonist answering questions after! Lucky me.

Any time anything even remotely related to race gets published on the internet, the comments make me so depressed. And totally snap me out of my bubble of friends and colleagues.

“I bet me and Ray J would be friends / If we ain’t love the same bitch / Yeah, he might have hit it first / Only problem is I’m rich.”

I'd counter that what you just wrote is at best misleading and at worst dishonest.

I miss the good old days when they were busy overthrowing the democratically-elected government of Iran!
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The Tulsa bombing is an event in US history that is very salient for the Black community and completely erased in the White community. That one time WW1 bombers destroyed the wealthiest Black community in the country.

I get so annoyed by sentences such as:
"This is an election year in which a racist billionaire and a democratic
socialist, both prone to rants, are somehow viable candidates for their
respective parties’ nominations."
that try to paint a false equivalency. Sanders ranting about racism is not the same thing as Trump…

Tina Fey calls that kind of response "clapter" (as opposed to laughter).

Fey still plays Palin as a laid-back folksy hockey mom with quirky logic, instead of an enraged, condescending scold who is too stupid to realize that her bumper-sticker platitudes make no sense.

I was actually a little disappointed because Tina Fey is normally really good at the kind of non-sequitur humor that really could have made the press conference bit totally absurd - it seems like something that kind of writing style could have really bitten into. And Palin has that weird tone of manic enraged…

The parody was far less bizarre and nonsensical than the actual speech, and I'm not just saying that to dig at Palin.

Disclaimer: I'm not trolling and not asking a question to imply that there's no good answer. I don't go to the movies much. I think this whole past year I've seen 5 in the theater: Hateful 8, Revenant, Mad Max, Star Wars, and Black Mass. I tend to only see action-type movies in the theater when I think the big screen…

Yeah, I agree with that. I think it's a matter of this particular review making weak arguments and not a matter of those weak arguments not existing. I believe it's possible to have good music ruined by neofascist lyrics, and I believe Mustaine is capable of that. Mustaine has really gone off the rails in the last…

It's hard to ignore the fact that Driving Miss Daisy won the best picture Oscar in the same year that Do The Right Thing wasn't even nominated. History has definitely rounded DMD down and rounded DTRT up, but there is an Oscar-specific problem too.

I bet people's "Bring it back on now" demands have been tempered by the 4th season of Arrested Development. I'm sure someone here can give better specifics but my understanding is that the time between greenlight from Netflix and the start of shooting was so short that they were writing as they were filming, and only…