Idris Elba.  Tom Hardy.  Aaron Taylor-Johnson.  Lashana Lynch.  Let’s just do this all over again.  

He’s his lawyer.  This isn’t worth being mad about. 

The trained professionals who evaluate legal competency are aware, even hyper-aware, of the concept of malingering. Dementia is real and diagnosed without particular bias for protecting rapist porn stars.  Jeremy will remain confined.  It is, given the circumstances, fine.  

Attorneys zealously defend their clients. Public image almost certainly mattered a lot to the person he represents. It’s part of his job.

Prison.  Jail is generally pre-adjudication.  His raping days are done regardless.  

Yeah, but it’s a little odd to see one franchise pander to nostalgia for...another franchise.

You don’t want to blame it on cocaine but, you know, cocaine.  

Old white man has objectionable view.  Film at 11.  

we have all our worst people sorted into the political right

This, RE Maverick in particular. And Maverick had a similar approach to TFA in blending sequel to/remake of the original, so they were definitely paying attention. The thing made billions at a time when movie theaters are obsolete germ traps, so I guess they were doing something right.

Seeing that Force Awakens trailer brought me back. Remember how exciting that was? I won’t say it was the last time Star Wars gave me an actual sense of fun and wonder (through weird circumstances I lucked into seeing The Last Jedi at Lucasfilm, so that was pretty great).  I’ll just say it seems like a long time ago…

Let’s put it this way: the 1.488 billion USD Top Gun: Maverick made, about a 100 million of which went to Tom Cruise on top of his initial paycheck for the work, could house the entire homeless population of Seattle for about three and a half years. Or, you know, make a dent. Simplified figures of course, but not…

Can I put something out there? Can I just suggest that the reason we’re talking about nepotism has to do with the entertainment industry creating a aristocracy by paying people way too much for what their jobs actually contribute to society, all because they make unseemly amounts by selling their products to...us.…

I mean, we can blame it on Bill Murray.  

Well, OK, I’ll backtrack on my comment a bit and say I think we in AV Club land are a bit insular when it comes to gauging the feelings of the general general public. The guy’s not raping anyone and I’m not sure if his general jerkosity is enough to make most people really care. And people still seem to like MCU…

It was the transition in the late 90s/early 2000s that did it. He was able to turn his funny asshole schtick into something more subdued that fit the anxious zeitgeist of the time. It was like validating our nostalgia with “high” art. And, give it to him, it was a brilliantly executed reinvention. But these stories…

If nothing else, we’ve got a fun U Talkin’ U2 episode coming up. 

The story of this story is that Kumail Nanjiani said something about a thing.