It's hard to say. Having read a fair bit of Kael's writing, she didn't often let behind the scenes stuff interfere with her reading of artworks. But in a case like Last Tango, it's different, because we're actually watching the abuse and its impact on someone.

Aha, but lonely.

Maggot Brain is for some reason the only Funkadelic album casual music fans know, which is maybe because it's the most rock-leaning of them all. So yeah, that story gets told a lot.

I don't know, man. This album is P-Funk karaoke, and just sounds disingenuous. I get how someone who doesn't know those original albums might find this innovative, but if you're referencing deep cuts like "March to the Witch's Castle" in your review, I'm a bit stumped at the appeal here.

Yeah, it's interesting seeing a new breed of stars, post G-Funk era, take P-Funk as a big influence. Bruno Mars captures the party side of Parliament's sound really well, but he doesn't understand the message. What separated funk from disco, other than time and instrumentation, is that funk was a celebration of…

Newsflash: Artists are fucked up people. That's why they're artists.

I've only heard the title track, and though its mix of material braggadocio and depression should bother me, it sounds better than his past singles, which were just the boring parts of Drake songs.

I initially thought it seemed like a romcom set in space (which isn't THAT ingenious, but is ingenious for a tentpole holiday movie), so the survival stuff at the end of the first trailer lost my interest.

It's maybe an archetype, but within the context of the movie, it isn't false. Some people just have issues like this.

Jokes only work when they're played straight. Otherwise, it's camp. Which is why the way Showgirls has been embraced as a camp-classic always bothered me (it's good, but not in the way the fan base pretends it is.)

Elle is really good, for the most part, but Verhoeven's camerawork isn't what it was between Robocop and Starship Troopers. Even the blocking in Showgirls is enormously complex. This movie just uses a lot of intercut single and two-shots, which serves the material, I suppose.

I walked outside of Bob's Big Boy restaurant in Burbank about 7 years ago at 2am, and there was a guy standing there who said unprompted, "Hey guys, I did the theme song to Darkwing Duck. You remember that show?" The two others in my group, who included a famous-ish music video director, didn't seem to know what that…

They're both good films. Snake Eyes perhaps lacks emotional resonance, but it's a virtuoso De Palma thriller "exercise." The zero-gravity visual compositions of Mission to Mars are incredible. Most critics couldn't appreciate what they were looking at.

It's also a misuse of the term "hack." A hack is someone with no discernible authorial style (like Shawn Levy) who fits the role of a hired gun. The writer may not like Argento's movies, but that's a different issue.

I don't have the answer to that, because I think it's not so cut-and-dry an issue. But I remember watching some talk show hosted by teens in the late '90s, and Djimon Hounsou from Amistad was the guest. One of the kids asked him to do his "Give us free!" line, and he refused, saying he didn't want to diminish the…

So Schumer basically confirmed peoples' issue with this, which is that she was making a song about black empowerment about her own female empowerment. She has the right to do that, and only censorious dumbasses actually want to shut her down. But it was still an obviously bad idea on her part, and since she's alive…

I think his new albums aren't bad necessarily, but the dividing line in quality happened when he stopped writing songs about the world and started writing songs about himself.

And I would reply to that, the reason people who are "outraged" are "outraged" (and, yes, there's a notable faction of those who I'm not addressing that are outraged simply by impulse and don't know why) is because the video reads as though Schumer is equating female struggle and uprising with black struggle and…

Art doesn't need to have a message, just a sense of purpose (i.e.: "What is this doing? Why is that interesting?"). Maybe this is merely two people having fun, and to some, maybe that's enough. I'm just sure they knew that it would be read as a lot more than that.

I think they have every right to do it, and I'm happy to let it exist. So no outrage. I just feel it should have struck them as an obviously bad idea from the start.