After all, the allegations that he molested his adopted daughter came shortly on the heels of the established fact that he fucked his girlfriend’s adopted daughter.

So I could be completely wrong, but memory is not really an accurate record of events, and memories made during a stressful time, like joining a new family, can be especially limited. Any bets on whether Allen gave Soon-Yi an alternate narrative of her early time with the family while he was grooming her? “You never…

If you watch the episode, it’s pretty clear it’s his son. And, he told her time and time and time again she can have kids, adopt kids, etc, but he wasn’t interested in being an active dad at all. (Which is even crazier when you think of how he acted with Dylan.)

You’ve left that comment twice in five days. How is that pertinent to the subject discussed here?

There was so much to takeaway from this very first episode. There is clearly a very, very, very weird vibe between Dylan and Allen. He’s hovering around her constantly and it’s noticeably different than a concerned dad or a dad who thinks his little girl is the greatest thing ever. Just in the videos we see, he’s…

The comment about “Woody Allen the steamroller” (as opposed to the public image of Allen as a neurotic) reminds me of how Orson Welles absolutely pegged him for what he always was decades ago.

Finally got to actually watch this thing last night. I’ve been looking forward to it since you guys started tracking it around the festival circuit and raving about it. I really loved it a lot. The swooping, swirling camera movements. The ridiculously charming period-accurate slang. The glowing golden light of the bask…

I heard an interview with the director on NPR the other day. He said the film was also on the drive-in circuit and actually works well in that environment. I haven’t seen it, but given the description here and in that interview, it seems like it might be neat to see in that setting. 

Fifties sci-fi is my porn and everything about this sounds right up my alley, particularly the emphasis on dialogue and sound design. I’m at the point now where I’m craving a science fiction movie with no special effects or at most in camera/practical effects. If this ever shows up on Kanopy I’ll give it a look but…

So, who wants to take guesses on how terrible Diablo 4 will turn out?

If an artist is racist but a work is not transparently racist, can you separate the art from the artist and enjoy it?

Not really true in Lovecraft’s case, though.

Nah, it’s in a bunch of the stories, sadly. Read the description of the first reanimated corpse in Herbert West––Reanimator for the most explicit version.

Reread The Call of Cthulu and pay attention to his descriptions of people, you’ll notice that it’s not as separate from his writings as you think.

Lovecraftian describes a certain style of cosmic horror and weird fiction popularized but not created or pioneered by Lovecraft. Many authors writing similar stories before, during, and after his career were much better. But, Lovecraft had lore, and nerds fucking love lore.

This is the thing I don’t understand, Bon Appetit, ostensibly a print/journalism operation,has so many people who are just naturals at being on screen personalities (the six pictured plus Delaney and Amiel plus a great cast of b players like Rick, Christina, Sohla and of course Gaby.) Like do you look at your group of…

American Capitalism actively rewards sociopathy, abusive practices, and the creation of serf classes.

Power Dynamics 101: if you are the CEO, or have any kind of unilateral power over someone who works for you, at no point in time is threatening to punch your employee ‘a joke’ to the employee.

So the last vulture capitalists killed the company to reap millions for themselves and the new vulture capitalists are going to be using children to sell marketing data to firms.

If there’s any group of lowlife degenerates that can make communism start to sound good, it’s vulture capitalists.

“Existential” doesn’t always mean philosophical. Climate change is an existential threat. It just means “relating to existence.”

an ‘existential threat’ is one that means death. As in losing existence within the world. The term is not relegated solely to the demesne of philosophy. Nuclear escalation and climate change are both legitimate existential threats. A threat to survival.