The Washington Post did an interesting story on CrimeCon this summer that touched on that. I’m generally inclined to agree with you that it trivializes family’s suffering (and a lot of victims’ families agree with that!). But the the reporter also spoke to a lot of families who were very grateful that podcasts or TV…

Dickens’ early work as an essayist and journalist included penetrating work on street crime and prison life, including the desperate need for prison reform. Nancy's murder in Oliver Twist was a direct reference to a real crime. Painting him as just a snobbish opponent of what we would now call “true crime” is bizarre.

One thing we can know for sure, it wasn’t Paul Maidment or Jim Spanfeller. They’d have fired Ben and walked out, leaving the doors unlocked. 

There is no need for burdensome regulation to fetter the genius of capitalism.

toss broccoli florets and/or asparagus spears in a bit of olive oil and salt, and roast until soft and the ends start to brown.  I swear to you they taste completely different roasted than they do steamed.  

I don’t know about cinema, but Marvel Studios are fucking cowards. Always pulling their punches.

PLEASE. Everything I love is terrible for me and everything I hate is good for me.

Quick, someone make a hyperpalatable vegetable. I smell a business opportunity here...

Scorsese was making less money than George Lucas back in the day, but Lucas still left enough space for Scorsese to reliably get theatrical releases.

I’d say Scorsese’s career counts as evidence in favor of auteur theory, which never required that the director wore every hat in the production.

Scorsese is 100% correct.

He’s right, so why should he “back down”?

Bt if all it does is challenge you to remember what happened in a prior movie, how is that unprecedented? Hell, how is that even a challenge? The argument comes down to movies vs films, and conflating shitty mcu movies to films because they have an ongoing thread is such a feeble argument. 

And moviegoers mindless devotion to a series of movies is totally by design, it's like crack to people who don't want to think when going to a movie 

This op-ed is completely correct and articulates a vital point about the way that cinema is becoming monopolized. It's well worth reading, and anyone who has a problem with it is a dummy.

Lol Disney owns like 30-40% of the market, and genuinely creative directors like Scorsese, Cuaron, and the Coen Brothers have seen their ability to get wide releases for their films crowded out like he said they were, reduced to tiny releases and then Netflix. And they’re established names. The people from my…

We ALL understand what he’s saying and the point he’s making.

Honestly, the Invasion subject is one of the few bits I agree with him about. It’s no secret that Disney’s been strongarming theaters to devote as many screens to their films for as long as possible. With the Fox acquisition, they’re, what, 30-40% of the domestic box office?

The positive effect the Joker movie I’ve seen on various corners of the world makes the movie so much more than a “theme park”. I live in Southeast Asia, where our cultural values are largely conservative, and social progress still lag behind those in the western world. The impact the Joker movie has had in our…

Can I play the edgy game?