I liked the invocation of the theme better in Jose Chung, though, because it was in a context that parodied the kind of pop-paranoia media the show itself helped launch. Cute as it was, Mulder's ringtone was just a gag, and I don't think it's worth breaking the fourth wall for something that's just a gag.

As is always the case on the internet, the people who are offended by other people taking offence always come across as the bigger drama queens.

I still suspect there was an early cut of that film where Jane was killed off, but it got reshaped in editing. There's a late scene where she's framed against a bus advertising a fictitious film called Moral Sacrifice, and it places her and the word "sacrifice" right next to each other for so long that I felt it had…

Yeah, their version of events struck me as particularly hard to believe. Particularly seeing as they lined up her replacement within a couple of days of her leaving, all but confirming they'd been looking for someone else for a while.

Oh god! I remember reading about her doing this for Bush during the 2004 elections, but I never thought I'd get the chance to hear, uh, Lennon's new material.

"I cannot tell a lie, unless it's to cover up my son killing a dog, in which case I totally can."

Always worth mentioning that the book which kick-started this, Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism, uses Scott Lively's The Pink Swastika as an authoritative source on the Nazis' attitude to gays.

If questioning the irritatingly prevelant modern misdefinition of fascism as "gubbmint does something" is "quibbling", we need more quibblers.

He's clearly Tobey Maguire as emo Peter Parker.

Which isn't what the poster you were replying to was saying at all. Try again.

Has there ever been an era when student politics hasn't been about this kind of dumb gestural stuff, though? That's what puzzles me. Even if you look back to the '68 generation, a lot of it's less noble than it was subsequently painted as - Daniel Cohn-Bendit was agitating for equal access to the girls' dormitories,…

Yeah, not sure you can really complain about a Thomas Pynchon adaptation being too murky and impenetrable. (And the plot of IV does hang together, it's just very complex)

I think Ant-Man has an element of that, too. I remember thinking when I was watching the scenes with Scott Lang hanging out with his friends, that you don't normally see superheroes in this kind of rust-belt environment. (Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films also touch on his job worries and struggles paying his rent, but…

That's correct. Macbeth makes his comment that the prophecy has been fulfilled when the ashes of the wood land on his face.

And honestly, with Reitman, even the good ones weren't that good IMO. Generally nice little time-passers, nothing on the level of McCarthy's first two films.

Your referring to Punch-Drunk Love as Love is making me think of Adam Sandler in that Gaspar Noe 3D hardcore film, and now I have torn my face off in horror.

It always fascinates me how people who don't like modern art think it must be subject to no criticism or interpretation whatsoever. They seem to think people just look at it, stroke their chin, then put it in a museum. I think that's what GamerGaters mean when they talk about treating video games like art.

Fantastically, there is a pro-GamerGate 'documentary' that features an admiring interview about how awful feminists are with… Jack Thompson! So actual wannabe censors of video games are fine, so long as they hate women enough.

"Well, I’ve long been an admirer of, if not a full-fledged subscriber to, what I call the “Ledeen Doctrine.” I’m not sure my friend Michael Ledeen will thank me for ascribing authorship to him and he may have only been semi-serious when he crafted it, but here is the bedrock tenet of the Ledeen Doctrine in more or…

Okay, my usual game of trying to work out what the film is about by looking at the picture isn't working. Because my first thought looking at that was "Bit early for a biopic of Jeremy Corbyn."