Today's comics with their "decompressed plotting" can't conceive of an era when the only way to fill pages was to repeat plot points.

"BOOBEIS?" Is he one of these annoying politicians I keep reading about?

It doesn't convey how filthy it is, but in that case the sentiment being expressed - the White House communications director has a personal grudge against the chief of staff - is significant enough that the profanity is actually distracting.

The secret to Dunkirk's pace is editing!

Instead of a military coup could we just have another election in 2020? It will probably take a long time to put right the damage this administration does, but it takes a lot longer to oust a totalitarian military regime. Or is this going to be one of those coups were they immediately return power to the people? You…

I kind of love this headline. Shepard tones are interesting and all, but the headline strongly implies that the use of music to add intensity to a movie constitutes a "secret." They've kept this one under wraps since before the invention of talkies, but we're busting it wide open.

In the movie it's less that they lack the money and more that they won't commit more than whatever amount to a poker game. Which isn't the craziest thing ever.

It's not the best movie, but when it works, it really works. Looking at you, Ed Helms and his brother.

During the 19th century New York was famous for the huge amount of filth in the street and the vile stench in the summertime. And, not coincidentally, for the massive outbreaks of cholera every few decades.

Sometimes I think Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese ended up with each other's careers. They're both master stylists with stables of tremendously talented actors, and their output is pretty variable. But everyone talks about Scorsese's newest take on "asshole being an asshole" or "Catholics being Catholic" much more…

We also don't need any more movies about cops, criminals, wars, soldiers, monsters, superheroes, men, women, children, or animals. Those things have all been done to death.

But there's a third character in our story… And it's New York City.

I would say the third act drags, but the first hour and a half is magnificent.

Also, the narratives of these movies are extremely by-the-numbers. I guess it's kind of remarkable to have a dozen three-act action movies where the dudes in one talk to the dudes in the other ones, but it's not like they're doing anything unique with the format of each movie.

If the shots are framed at 1.43:1, I suspect it isn't hard to crop them to 2.35:1 (iirc this was pretty common with European movies in the 80s).

Basically every zombie or zombie-adjacent story of the past 17 years has been remaking elements of one of his Dead movies.

I agree in that this is a silly context to use the term "offended." Discomfort is a pretty natural response to all the crazy shit people have done over the ages, and these little cultural ephemera can be cringe-inducing. But unless someone is presenting this stuff as the product of a "better time" or using it to…

I just bought a Loony Toons collection for my son (he's too young to watch it, but I'm stocking up), and I was delighted/chagrined to see the disclaimer on the box that the cartoons are intended for "adult collectors and may not be suitable for children."

Poor Churchill: Christ. Skinny Churchill and Lace-Up Churchill are having a row, innit.

That was a clip of Gary Oldman, Toni Colette, and Nick Frost on a BBC chat show. Is all television in England this wonderful?