In a way, isn't that a victory for equality? He's an individual, a three-dimensional character in his own right not defined by the singular trait of gayness. He doesn't have magical insight into society's dispossessed by virtue of his homosexuality. He's just Roland. Explosion-fixated, barely coherent Roland.

How about Persons with Advanced Talents? Is that taken?

In Going Clear, Paul Haggis says he didn't spend much time seeking out criticisms of the church. When he started to object to their anti-gay activism (and caught them in a lie about shunning practices), he found plenty of negative information.

While they are implicitly Conservative, my mom's extended family doesn't really talk politics that much. My Dad's family, though, tends to run through the Fox News Talking Point list during various family gatherings. My dad finds it amusing to marshal me into conflict with them. It was easier when my grandma was still…

Candy Apple Island?

Seven Brides for Seven Bonobos?

The Incredibly Strange Creatures That Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies on the Planet of the Apes

I'd say its not so much irony as kitsch. The former implies some sort of ideology being subverted; the latter takes joy in lack of meaning. A friend of mine who studies and supports labor movements dryly reading Margaret Thatcher speeches (which happened last weekend) - that's being ionic. With the T-shirts, though,…

Part of the issue is 'racism' is viewed publicly in America as an essentialized trait, which encourages people to distance themselves from blatantly racist language without examining their own biases (I know I'm a good person, so therefore couldn't possibly be racist like those awful people). Hogan reflected on and…

[…raises hand]

I also like how the kids chatting about Harry Potter later in the movie suggests they may not have agreed with her argument.

It's just like the that theory about all the Pixar movies being related, but more grounded!

"offers plenty of opportunities to see what a boxy airport looked like in 1977"

I've seen a lot of bad movies, and just reading the name The Spirit makes me think - you know, its a strong contender for the worst I've ever watched. It's just incoherent - in the senses that it both doesn't make any sense and doesn't fit together - at every tonal and narrative level, and nearly every one of its…

Indeed, what most confuses me about the memes on my Facebook feed is that the average age of Minion fans appears to be 45.

For that matter, back in the 20s kids being orphaned was (I assume, statistically) a lot more common. My great grand-pappy grew up in a Midwestern orphans home - not due to to a particularly notable set of circumstances, but because that's what happened when a family had 8 kids and both parents met the limits of…

They bought two tickets to paradise, and took the midnight train going anywhere.

[also reading]

As a means to call attention to the under-representation of vast swathes of humanity in "film" as a medium, via specifically highlighting a - random smattering? - of movies across the last several years…yep, this definitely seems like something the Internet would produce.

In all seriousness, though:a movie like Jurassic Park - made for a wide range of ages and international audiences - repeatedly, explicitly, lamely sign-posts how its characters function within the story. They stand around reciting expository dialogue, their body language indicates how they feel about one another, and…