You had a different president when Black Panther came out in 2018? :)

Clicked on this article assuming it was talking about books written about black historical figures by white authors, and thinking that might be a tricky case to debate. Woof, was I wrong... pretty sure Emma is the whitest book ever written.

Decrying a very particular expansion of a single adjective’s common usage in no way implies opposing linguistic innovation in general, and to pretend otherwise is both foolish and cowardly.

Decrying a very particular expansion of a single adjective’s common usage in no way implies opposing linguistic innovation in general, and to pretend otherwise is both foolish and cowardly.

Could we please not go with this “hip” use of the word “thirsty”? Enough aspects of our civilization are being debased all around us without adding this nauseous corruption of the English language to the list of offenses. Thank you kindly.

THANDIE NEWTON OR NO DEAL

For those who thought Season 3 of GLOW still contained too much wrestling?

I mean, to not even offer arm movement, when the prospective joint is covered by fabric and wouldn’t even have to look good, is pretty weird.

True!

Await no more:

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: “mysterious assassin” isn’t nearly as interesting a job/way of life as genre fiction likes to think.

Holy Cow, American Auto does indeed sound like embarrassing self-insert fanfic greenlit by TV execs. The ironic thing? I’ve thought for years and years that a show about TV execs could be genuinely great. Are they as sick to death of gimmicky cop procedurals as the rest of us? How do they weigh sparing brilliant but…

Hell, no, Radcliffe isn’t the best part of Victor Frankenstein. He isn’t even the second-best part; that would be Andrew Scott. No, James MacAvoy is gloriously unhinged in that movie, which, while not good overall, deserves a watch for his epic ham alone.

Given that automobiles are warming and poisoning the planet, and we currently have a president gleefully pardoning war criminals, maybe now isn’t the best time to glorify warrior automobiles that inevitably partner with the US military? Maybe we should let this franchise rest for, say, a few centuries or so?

“I suspect that if the ST has an enduring legacy, it’ll probably be Galaxy’s Edge” - ANH turns 50 a mere seven years from now. Seems to me an ideal time to revise it to an OT-era attraction and close the book on the thoroughly meh ST for good.

What? That movie had plenty of its monster, played by Zac Efron, regardless of whether or not it showed his crimes in action.

“Fans waited over three decades to find out what happened in a galaxy far, far, away after Return of the Jedi” - nah, Heir to the Empire was published only eight years after RotJ. #TheThrawnTrilogyisMyST :P

“it made me weirdly kind of sad” - is a story of a family being poisoned to madness and death by their very home not supposed to be downbeat? I once read the story, and found it more disturbing than HPL’s other ghoul-fests precisely because it was so plausible, and I certainly won’t be watching this.

The Mist, b&w version of course, hands down.

“But [Leia] alone didn’t fall short.” Well, except for that one time when her only child was lured to the Dark Side right under her nose. And that time she failed to notice the nu-Empire had built a planet-sized, stationary Death Star until after it nuked five whole planets. And that time she let the last living Jedi,…