"$100 billion dollars."

Everything is ideological, though I think ruling that the film in question is something that isn't inherently "harmful" - but rather to be critically read (as one would any other work of art) - I think that would have placed the film (and horror more generally) on normative par with other films rather than elevating…

That's one of the things that really, really bugs me about this. I think any film has some educational value. While this particular one may have required a bit more context than others (read: 95% of all cinema would been more directly suited to classroom use), saying the film caused harm is definitely devaluing horror…

And after you make those edits, how else are you supposed to fill the other 55 minutes of an hour-long class?

Woman is 53 / But Looks 27

Semisonic already beat you to it.

Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson could all be assholes (and were imperialists-by-way-of-racism), but their more eccentric, blatant assholeries are at least entertaining to hear about.

In that case, fuck 'im.

In this guy's personal case, I don't think so. But I mean, like, was there some book? Pamphlet? Q source for the idea?

Aristotle is thought to have addressed that very issue in the lost second volume of the Poetics .

I recall a (generally pleasant, but occasionally politically nutty) teacher said the same thing to me once. Does the "Rome gayed itself to death" theory have a history of its own?

"President Woodrow Wilson, whose chief preoccupation at the time was writing love letters as part of a courtship that plays out like a historical version of Aaron Sorkin’s The American President. "

Great note on School of Rock, too. One of the things I love about Linklater is how concerned he is with time and temporarility, how the snapshot moments he shows stretch into the past and future (made especially expansive and explicit in Boyhood's final scene, where - at Big Bend Park - the moment stretches "forever"…

That's a freakin' great interpretation/explication.

If a single comment from from a septic tanker owner was literally the only thing that set him on a different life path, with nothing else internal or external factoring in, then the takeaway is that Ernesto is highly suggestible and mentally unstable. It's logical to assume he has some sort of life outside from what's…

His house was, anyway.

I got 99 problematics, but a White Savior Complex ain't one!

I was more annoyed at the coincidence of the situation than anything, but since it worked with the characters and the rest of the movie was amazing, I went with it.

Click-baitness when used in a title aside, I've generally read a title with "problematic" in it as the more 'let's discuss one element of a complex whole', critically-minded, less ragey alternative to… most of the Internet. Mainly Salon and Jezebel though.

I just got back from the local indie theater on their senior matinee Thursday. They had this showing on four screens at once, and at least three of those screens sold out.