Lithium, Kanye, give it a try.

I hate to be the guy... but I guess I will. The historical Nazis actually didn’t really care much about black people either way, other than seeing them as inferior. Which is not much different from how they regarded pretty much everyone else, if maybe a little lower on their racial totem pole. Their real ire was…

I guess there is a time-shift, that no matter how popular a piece of entertainment once was, almost everything eventually fades. As familiar as I might be with the classic movies of the 30s and 40s, if you asked me what the top plays were in the 1890s, I probably couldn’t name a single one (maybe a handful of operas,…

He should almost be yelling “Stella!”

And Sean Connery.  And Robert Redford.  And Eliot Gould.  And Ryan O’Neal.  And Gene Hackman.  And James Caan.  And Liv Ullman.  And the list goes on.

It was on The Big Bang Theory too.

Sallah could be Coptic...

There is no way you recast Sallah and get away with it.  That’s just a bridge too far.

Car chases, perhaps?

Interviewer: “Well, thanks for your time, I’ve learned quite a lot about your work over the past two hours. It’s really been insightful. Oh, by the way, what do you think about superhero movies?”

Taylor Swift is considered country?

Here’s a genuine question. Do young people today have no exposure to pop culture from past decades? I was born in the 70s, but as a teenager and young adult, my peers and I were very familiar with at least some music, TV and movies probably from the 1940s onward (well, less so TV from the 1940s), although the…

For some reason, the only thing I can remember from Airheads is Chris Farley ripping out someone’s nipple ring.

Alternatively intriguing and narratively inert. Neither the story nor the character development should have taken that long.

I’m not sure how much anonymous random internet chatter is worth to call it officially “criticism”, but there were some comments stating that instead of Brandon Frasier wearing prosthetics, the film should have cast an actual 600 lb actor for the role. Those comments didn’t last long when others pointed out how…

The Cathars of France could have only hoped for something like the witch trials.

My understanding is that witch hunts in German-speaking regions peaked during the Thirty Years War, which was generally one of the worst periods to be alive in that part of Europe.  It was mainly directed at finding scapegoats for all the death, disease, famine, destruction and generalized misery the war had inflicted…

I believe Pinocchio was well received at the time. WWII just prevented the film from being seen in wider release.

No, it isn’t common at all for adolescents to spontaneously commit suicide.  There are almost always some warning signs, and a history of mental illness is extremely common (I’m using this data because adult data skews across several decades and different life stages, and a college age student is close enough to…

Hence, my caveats. It does happen, but it isn’t the norm.