Bottom line: Everyone was wrong on this and there’s no reason to choose sides.

- The original account was that the kids swarmed Phillips who was minding his own business. The video shows that he walked over and got in the middle of the kids, who were already acting like idiots. This is the action that most people…

This ignores much of Riley’s critique, which was about the actual case itself and how it was misrepresented, including the third act being mostly fiction that made the cops look better than they were. I mean, the cop-arrest scene is so bad that the only defense of it seems to be that it was supposed to be implausible.…

And that’s pretty much Boots’s complaint. If you make up a crowd-pleaser to make the cops look like they’re all on the same team, fighting the good fight, and the Blue Wall is kaput, it undermines any supposed greater point the film was trying to make. Especially if you’re trying to compare it to modern times.

I’m not sure this is really all that different than Steven Adams calling the Warriors a bunch of “quick little monkeys” last year. In this case, an older guy used an out-of-date phrase that is now frowned upon. He apologized. If he made a stink about apologizing, I could see suspending him.

When I saw his show in LA, I had the same reaction as this writer did. It was interesting to watch him kind of talk out his therapy/relationships/mistakes in public but, besides one joke that was one of the best of the set, much of it wasn’t as funny or clever. The introspective stuff didn’t have the same biting,…

If “other people’s business” is harassing someone or creating a hostile work environment, I hope people would speak up about it.

A wide swath of behaviors that would be considered sexual harassment/racist/homophobic/creating a hostile work environment aren’t technically crimes.
Saying “If it ain’t a crime, you do you” is incongruous with Damon’s assertion that he would have stepped up if he had seen harassment or someone creating a hostile…

TL;DR - The issue with Damon’s take is that he’s essentially saying that disgusting yet non-criminal behavior shouldn’t be dealt with harshly, and completely ignores the impact these behaviors have on the victims.
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Molly’s Game is the kind of film that audiences might like more than critics. It has strong performances, cool inside Hollywood/NYC stories, and an interesting enough lead character. Besides the aforementioned ice rink scene (which is, at best, jarring) the two biggest issues are the time and timing. The runtime is…

The issue wasn’t the existence of the poker games; the texts/emails she had supposedly included private info that would have embarrassed the players and possibly broken up their families.

Can’t argue with that. The Disaster Artist shouldn’t have been released during the busy Oscar season.

I wouldn’t let this video sway you either way; I haven’t seen “The Room” but found “The Disaster Artist” to be a funny, if ultimately forgettable, flick. The 76 on Metacritic is about right.

This is one of those “They didn’t make the movie I wanted!” reviews. It’s clear IV is a rabid fan of The Room and wanted a deeper dive into it rather than a basic comedy treatment from a guy (Franco) who hadn’t even seen the film when he started reading the book this film is based on.

I haven’t seen “The Room” and still enjoyed “The Disaster Artist” very much. It’s a light comedy, that fits in with the Franco/Rogen/Goldberg films.