“I carefully and methodically cultivated a persona as a vapid child of privilege, and I am outraged that people view me as a vapid child of privilege!”

This whole trend recently of “Hate the game, not the player” is understandable - who doesn’t love a redemption arc, after all? - and to be fair there are no winners on any side in the kind of vapid, self-aggrandizing, vicious world in which the Paris Hiltons, Courtney Stoddens, and, indeed, Donald Trumps of this Earth…

Uh, no? I mean, personally, I think Hoop Dreams is better in every single metric but, beyond that, Hoosiers has an ugly racial subtext that makes the comparison pretty striking. Hoosiers wants to pretend that white kids in the American heartland are the underdog while Hoop Dreams explicitly shows how much the…

Nope, I went to the public school where the regionals took place.

I think it was a perfect storm for it this year. It was an extremely stylish and youthful-feeling A24 movie starring a prominent actress of color with a long and unrecognized international career, about an Asian-American family. And it was a great movie.

CODA is… yes, fine; that’s a good word. But as a member of the Deaf community (I have hearing in one ear, but I’m fluent in ASL), I can tell you many of us watched it and got the distinct feeling that the writers pitched it as “What if ‘Glee,’ but Deaf?”

Sounds like someone has never reclaimed Rome for their people

Gladiator was great though. I watched it the other day. Was I not entertained? Yes I was, thoroughly.

So I did some jokes about him. That’s how it is. She starts it, I finish it. OK? That’s what happened. Nobody’s picking on this bitch. She started this shit. Nobody was picking on her. She said me, a grown-ass man, should quit his job because her husband didn’t get nominated. And then [he] gives me a concussion.…

The Whale is only competing with EEAO in supporting actress. Don’t think Fraser is gonna influence that category. Its not even nominated for best picture.

Well I haven’t seen it, nor do I intend to. How’s he feel about that?

Thank you, Doctor.

lol

Similarly, Garfield creator Jim Davis went on a disturbing, hate-filled rant about Mondays in a recent strip, which he then followed-up with an effusive essay about his favorite food lasagna.

The full context does not make it any better. He interprets some poll as proof that a majority of Black people have anti-White beliefs, calls them a hate group for it and says White people should stay away from Black people and that that’s why he lives in an area with little to no Black people.

Okay I gotta question this bit about The Crow:

Between this and the Boseman omission, I’m wondering if Tucker Carlson is the new AV Club editor.

You know, I don’t usually mind the A.V. Club snark, but there’s a nasty cavalier attitude threaded throughout this piece that’s just so inappropriate for the subject matter.

For the AV Club, this list must’ve been the most important day of their lives, but for Raul Julia in “Street Fighter,” it was Friday.

6. It won’t be in slideshow format.