It almost feels like they were afraid that if they did that, people would be reminded of American Beauty and realize how much worse this movie treated the spying neighbor angle.

The principal says that she can't report the abuser because he's a powerful member of the community and then she sees the dance recital and feels the pain of the child and does report it and then everyone believes it and the police come, rendering her initial reluctance totally off base.

They imply that he's molesting her. There's a moment where the little brother says "I don't understand what [the dad] is doing to her."

It's kind of…. adequate… in a lot of ways. It plays a lot more straight than it sounds.

There's also this thing where the little brother is going to do a "magic" trick at the talent show. He says he's going to bring his brother back and opens a chest from which bunch of fake snow blows out over the audience. It's a callback to an earlier scene, to which only the viewers of the film were privy, Which…

He went to the ER and was in recovery for… a week? A few days? At some point he sneaked out of his hospital room and did all of this.

Her alibi is that she was at the talent show and she's driving a new car that no one in the neighborhood knows is hers (which the 11 year old bought and stashed for her…. somehow). Also, he had her buy some kind of ammunition that disintegrates when it hits human bone and, so, is untraceable.

I don't agree, but this comment is the best thing in this entire article. Well done.

WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?

The sound design is mostly in place, but if you want to see how important the balance between image, sound effect, and music is, watch the original, 1976 Star Wars trailer. It feels like a completely different (and much crappier) film.

If openly mocking an inveterate racist whose middle name is Beauregard is wrong, I don't want to be right.

"in actually doing the job he so heartily professed to want."

Pretty much what @banmar:disqus said. Politico is nothing but a horse trading insider-rag that divorces behind the scenes political maneuvering from the impact of any of the policies or bills in question. Someone up thread said that Pardon the Interruption is the best show on ESPN because they treat sports like…

One of the Red Letter Media Star Wars prequel essays.

Which isn't even what it stands for. That's accepted nomenclature because the media can't stop fawning over it.

It's gross because of the glee with which the media is running with such explicitly propagandist terminology. Not that such a thing is without precedent, but this is a particularly transparent example, even for the MSM.

Mind if I ask why it struck you so differently than their other work? I remember thinking the first time I saw it that it felt incredibly Coen Brothers from start to finish (which I meant as a compliment).

Starting with 5, they've moved into being utterly different things than where they started. They focus on set pieces that seem to originate from someone saying "Wouldn't it be crazy if we did x?" and then bringing in stunt coordinators and dp's to tell them exactly what needs to be done to get x on the screen.
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I didn't know who you were talking about, so I did a quick search on your quote. The fourth result was for a black cuckolding video. While I felt that her performance was adequate, it hardly merited an Oscar. Unless that gent's name was Oscar, in which case, carry on.

Thank you for warning me off of it because, quite frankly, I would be too curious not to watch this thing. As it stands I'm still slightly curious.