As an individual who, in adulthood, forever suffers as a result of being overworked in their teenage years, I agree. I played virtually every sport, and to a fiercely competitive degree, and also modeled. I had a relative who signed up as a coach for whatever events that they could to ensure that my training regime…

I watch now and feel like Ben was too good for Winona in that one. He was right to never speak to her again.

It’s watching Reality Bites in my 30s and realizing that Winona should have chosen Ben Stiller. He was a nice guy with a good job! Ethan Hawke, no! Have sloppy drunk sex with him once, and then go home. That shit will not be as cute at 32 as 22.

People don’t know. US media avoids the topic, when it doesn’t flatly lie. I spent my college years hoping to be a MENA analyst or specialist, so I both interacted with Palestinians and continue to read more specialized regional media. Most people just don’t know. If you write critically on Israel policy, you blacklist…

Thanks. Agreed on all points. I’m not all that concerned with a film being banned in Lebanon, though. Especially given that people here seem to blithely equate banning a film with extreme contraventions of the Geneva Conventions: razing houses; absconding with great swathes of land; ethnic cleansing. The Zionist…

Nice dishonesty here. What Gadot did is a bit more than just being Jewish. I’m saddened so many people starred this dishonest comment.

“When I asked him why, he replied that this was a type of ‘trading with the enemy,’ because the books were published in Beirut, and that Israeli law forbids it.”

Books originating in Syria or Lebanon - the biggest publisher in the region of Arabic books - are illegal in Israel.

Yeah, sorry, but them not banning movies do not absolves them from every other awful things they have done.

Jew here, dislike Israel. There is a difference between being born and Israel and being a staunch fucking Zionist. I do not believe I have a right to Israel just because I am Jewish.

American living in Australia here, and I can confirm that it’s prevalent. I’d been living here for a year or two and started to pick it up until my friends back home mocked me and I managed to reverse it.

Except that people from places like New Zealand talk like that all the time. And they certainly aren’t trying to be purposefully obnoxious by speaking with their natural accents. I am not necessarily the biggest fan of upspeak, but I can’t imagine that most people are doing it on purpose to bother anyone. That just…

I’ll go a step further than Flow Bee. Not only should we become bullies too, but we should be dirtier, meaner, more rotten, more likely to cheat bullies.

While I certainly lean on the more liberal side of things, I asked this exact question yesterday. I understand there were plenty of derogatory, threatening images of Obama during his presidency, but none that I can recall by a person of Griffin’s elevated stature. It certainly doesn’t negate the vitriolic nature of…

There’s a big difference between Ellison and Coppola (although I respect both tremendously). Ellison never wanted to actually make the movies, she just wanted to finance them. You don’t really need connections when your intention is to parachute down with an obscene amount of money with the goal of financing movies.…

their first album is legitimately great pop! And they’ve always been sincere in their mediocrity. They just wanna make (yes, mediocre) music. Leave the Hansons alone!!

It just so happened that I, a black millennial woman, was watching one of my favorite Wes Anderson movies, The Darjeeling Limited, as I read this. I was definitely nerdy-type in high school and college (I say type, because I wasn’t actually very academically gifted. Just somewhat clever, literary, and awkward.), and…

I mean, yes? But also Teenagerhood, the movie.

Being a teenager is all about realizing you are a separate, sacred, individual person and that no one gets you. Being an adult is all about realizing everyone else is, too. Ideally.

I don’t know if it was meant for kids, but Welcome to the Dollhouse is a great companion film to Ghostworld.