The story isn’t invalid because a white man is at the center of it, but that doesn’t mean the most interesting way to make a movie about a right-wing, white supremacist terror attack is to make it solely about an aggrieved white man.

The facts that his defamation lawsuit was dismissed because he was the primary suspect when the media had reported it. I do not condone the media’s behavior in characterizing the man, but in a court of law it was decided that the falsehood of his involvement was not the fault of the Atlantic Journal Constitution.

That’s the point. It is meant to indict the media allowing the trumpers to flee further into their bubble. The villain of the film is not the actual terrorist but the media. No one argues that the media did not get it wrong or that Jewell wasn’t screwed over by the FBI.  So who is this film for besides people who are…

100%. As a LOTR diehard, I loathe the “Frodo and Sam are fuuuuuucking!” tropes/memes. It stems from an incapacity to conceive of two males having an intimate, meaningful relationship that isn’t also romantic.

The Fox news crowd is turning this into an indictment of both the entire media industry and the FBI/deep state which - sure, they fucked up.

Not really....

While I’m not surprised he hasn’t heard of Baby Yoda, I’m a little surprised Noam Chomsky has no thoughts on memes. I would imagine that would be a subject that might prompt some sort of comment on changing modes of communication, but I suppose he’s past the age/stage in his career when he feels the need to keep up on…

Considering that it’s almost always female shippers on male characters, I wonder if there’s also a dynamic of girls and women just not knowing what male bonding looks like. You see the same kind of thing with women claiming that men are socially isolated, emotionally repressed, et cetera just because men don’t bond or…

This. There are different kinds of intimacy that aren’t sexual and TV shows and movies seemed to have forgotten that. Relationships are so much more nuanced than that. Nowadays you’re either boning or about to. Even relatives are given the side-eye. If two siblings are close, you’re sexing or you want to. I get the…

“Um, pretty sure that’s a romantic relationship, bro.”

Pepper tearing shit up was the only exciting part of that movie.

Pepper was in Iron Man armor in Iron Man 3. And outside of that armor, she beat up Aldrich Killian and soccer-kicked a missile at him, killing him and ending the climactic fight of that film.

Yeah, the fact that this article specifically mentions Tony sacrifice in Endgame and doesn’t mention Black Widow at all is glaring.

Dear Tom:

Can I call you Tom? I like the feature, and normally I’d don’t give a shit, but please talk to more women other than your daughter and the woman who probably gave birth to her. After many decades of NOT HAVING SHIT REPRESENT US, lots of women had an emotional reaction to the damn women-Avengers moment and did…

I’m glad you said it because I didn’t want to be the only curmudgeon but, holy shit, if someone put their hands up in the air in front of me and started clapping and yelling while I was trying to watch a film...

After watching as much of that YouTube reaction video as I could stomach (10 seconds), I am so very glad I live in a country where people SHUT THE FUCK UP while watching a film. Even though at my equivalent opening-night viewing you could sense the excitement bristling through the audience, the relative silence…

All those liberal tears keep Miller young.

Honestly the “looking fantastic” part of New Who has always been a problem for me. Part of the fun of classic who is how cheap it all looks and how you can tell when the BBC was really cutting corners.

I had heard that they were going for a more cinematic look when Chibnall took over, and was surprised when I didn’t really notice it. Moffat’s episodes in America had a more cinematic look.

“A woman who is canonically strong with the Force and daughter of the chosen one used a basic Force technique! Sacrilege!”