Well, somebody will win that war. Might not be Netflix, but in the end, I agree, people really want the convenience of a single service more than anything else.

My roommate had the best description of Manny Jacinto’s delivery: “He says every line like he’s a really excitable eight year old.” I think it’s that delivery that helps take what could be a really unpleasant character and turns him into a sweet example of the wise fool.

I can’t say for sure, but I’m guessing a lot of the movies that have fallen into the public domain are a) not that popular to begin with, and b) readily available from a variety of non-Netflix sources and don’t get much play on Netflix. When you can literally watch ‘Night of the Living Dead’ in its entirety straight…

It is entirely due to market pressures. They were basically so successful that everyone wanted a piece of the market, and the way you carve out a piece of the market is you deny your rivals content so that people spend their limited entertainment budget on your streaming service and not your competitor’s. Netflix was…

Like...you guys do understand that other studios are withholding their back catalog deliberately from Netflix, either because other streaming services are paying more for exclusive rights or because they have plans to cut out the middleman and start their own streaming services, right? I mean, you keep using the words…

And as I’ve pointed out in the past, you don’t give out plea deals unless you think you can get someone bigger by flipping the guy you have on the hook. Manafort and Gates flipping...those are pretty big fish. The only bigger ones I can think of are the Trump family and Pence.

Don’t forget to abort them after you have them!

You’re right. She’s Mayor Dana Cardinal now.

It could be worse—our President could still travel on horseback.

Maybe they’re taking their cue from Billy Graham, embracing presidents with moral failings rather than rejecting them.

Not to the degree that ‘Black Panther’ did. ‘Black Panther’ made more in its opening weekend than ‘Get Out’ did in its entire run—hell, it made more domestically in its opening weekend than fucking ‘Justice League’ did in its entire run. It was a movie with an almost entirely Black cast that outperformed in a genre…

Amen. “This Snoke guy? He’s a third-rate Emperor retread, get rid of him and focus on Kylo Ren. He’s your bad guy. Luke Skywalker comes in and single-handedly stops the First Order with his laser sword? That’s a delusion. These plots are all based on a whole bunch of million-to-one chances and unbelievable face turns,…

At the very least, it’s starting a movement in Hollywood to overturn the prevailing wisdom that movies with predominantly Black casts and creators aren’t successful. That will lead to more opportunities for Black actors, directors, screenwriters, and producers. That’s a pretty big deal.

I’ll go to bat for Iron Man 2 any day—it feels disjointed and overwhelming because it’s supposed to feel that way, it’s Tony being hit from things on every side all at once and losing his direction and that comes out in the film really well—but better than Black Panther? FUCK NO. Black Panther is honestly the first…

And it works not just as a one-liner, but as a summary of the theme of the movie—all of his efforts to become the man he was again are in vain, because the change wasn’t just cosmetic. He can perfect his new synthetic skin and look like Liam Neeson again, but he’s become comfortable with violence (even sadism) in a…

Except it doesn’t have that great exchange capping it off.

Right-wingers, especially evangelical right-wingers, are convinced that “the good Mexicans” are going to be their ticket to domination at the polls in the next generation. (Yes, I am fully aware that Latinx-Americans are not “Mexicans”. I am relaying the opinions of deeply stupid people, here.) They believe that since…

“Look, I’m just saying that the Democrats—they’re like the Thundercats. And the Republicans, they’re like Mumm-Ra and his army of hideous trolls who want to crush all hope and life on behalf of the Ancient Spirits of Evil. It’s a perfectly sensible analogy!”

I know—why not adapt her, um...origin? Police Commissioner’s daughter cosplays as Batman for a Halloween party, gets embroiled in fighting one of Gotham’s many fucked up bad guys, turns out to have a knack for kicking ass and decides that she feels more fulfilled as a superhero than as a librarian. BAM.

The issue was that he used his feminism to deflect from accusations of infidelity. As in, “You don’t understand, I’m not constantly hanging out with the young, attractive women who work for me because I’m cheating on you, I’m doing it because I’m a feminist. If you criticize me, you’re criticizing feminism.”