The crazy thing about Jones’s performance in Infamous is that while it’s really extremely good, its best purpose in retrospect is to show the world how truly great Hoffman’s performance was. Jones’s performance is an impeccable piece of mimicry—Jones looks like Capote, and he has the voice and mannerisms down cold.…

Yep. People tend to argue with a basic wrong assumption that the same rules already apply to white and black people, and that black people are just doing it wrong. It’s not how it works at all, and it’s not that hard to understand. I live in Russia, and I feel like I understand more about the black experience in the…

Lol (or “My Replicator Ration with Andorians”)

Perhaps this will burn away the terror.

I would have gone with ‘Waiting For Odo’...

I like to think of his Tweets as “Exhibits A through ∞.”

All well and good, for a “So we’re using executive orders for everything now, huh?” definition of well and good.

I wouldn’t go that far. He did a good job and he definitely looked more the part than Hoffman, but Hoffman had more going on in his performance (maybe just a better script and better director). Still, Jones’s movie is underrated, and Sandra Bullock was a much more interesting Harper Lee than Catherine Keener. The one…

How dare you disparage Roxanne like that

Oh I’m sorry, how silly of me for assuming you were inviting conversation...by posting in the “Discussion” section of a website.

Fine, if you can’t do the math yourself: I’m trying to say that a lot of the criticism was valid.

While those commenting may not feel ready to learn about colorism, based on the general tone of these responses, it’s about goddamn time. She wore a prosthetic nose to play a darker-skinned Black woman. The world isn’t so didactic that being Black is justification enough to play any Black person, and the time it took…

Scarlett’s whole thing is something I’ve seen in a few actors, where they either get so high on themselves or so high on the transformative power of acting, they think they could take on any role and make it plausible.

“Could” is not the same thing as “should” though, and we’re thankfully getting to a point where we…

I use a website called the Avclub. It used to be pretty good but then a thing called “Kinja” happened followed by another thing called “Spanfeller” happened and it kinda went downhill fast.

Smart money is on the whale.

One of these days, David Thewlis is going to get the recognition he deserves. Starting all the way back with “Naked,” where his main character is introduced raping a woman and fleeing the city, up through the last season of Fargo - the guy just oozes sad, decayed menace.

“It’s like if you have a little pile of cocaine and then add another little pile of co...”

“Sign it to Melllvar. ‘Melllvar’ has 3 L’s.”

lol i’m not really a trek fan (i appreciate it, just always found it very boring) but this is the first i’m learning it’s not even an original idea, just based on an old TNG episode.

We already saw what the writers of Futurama were capable of with Star Trek and it was...really great. Just an all-time classic episode, really.