I don't know, I found "Thankful Heart" pretty memorable.

Those textiles and foam have feelings, goddammit.

Yeah, I'm afraid that it's the nature of corporate entities that aggressively normalize their members into their culture that individuals begin to eschew what they would have otherwise assumed to be their personal moral responsibilities, as in a kind of existentialist bad faith. The indoctrination I can only assume…

Alright, just settle down!

Probably not the bulk, though Ebert famously referred to "Dirty Harry" as fascist.

There's a joke to be made about modal realism but probably not a very good one.

I guess, but it doesn't seem like a constructive objection. If people are drawn to her for that style whereas they'd eschew it in the case of a black artist, that's just simple racism. The appropriation seems beside the point in that case and isn't really her fault.

Good Lord, yes.

No jive turkey she.

The whole situation is extremely ugly and depressing. (Fewer such stories in the Newswire would be welcome). But as to "cultural appropriation", I admittedly haven't thought much about it, but I can't help but think it sounds distinctly regressive. When have cultures not appropriated from each other? That's how…

It certainly can be, yes. Like a state of Stoic apatheia maybe.

Part of the problem is undoubtedly a lack of any organized political opposition that has the resources to compete with the two corporate, security state parties. Who are the people who are appalled by the Snowden revelations supposed to vote for? Hilary Clinton? As Chomsky rightly points out all the time, it's not…

This is kind of half-baked, but perhaps those films tend to be anti-war in the sense of "war is hell", as against some alleged nineteenth century conception of it as bright and glorious and such like. But some of the most rabid war-mongers would readily accede to that proposition. I think maybe a greater degree of…

Point taken. I apologize, and I'm sincerely sorry about your father's condition. I was taking some rhetorical license but I shouldn't have done so. I'm well aware that PTSD is not mere sadness and I have tremendous sympathy for veterans suffering from it, however little my comment reflected that.

Fair enough, I haven't seen either.

It wouldn't be out of place in a McCarthy novel. It reminds me of something Robert Ingersoll said about there being no punishments or rewards in nature, only consequences. Sort of a bleak observation that things like retribution and forgiveness are sought despite the fact that they have no external meaning in a…

I know he didn't write it, but "Deserve's got nothing to do with it" is one of the most penetrating lines in a film I can think of.

This might be the greatest film ever made, but if pointing a rifle at women and children makes you sad, imagine how the women and children feel. Readjusting to life on the homefront is even tougher when others have turned your home into a warzone. Might behoove the American movie-going public to get misty-eyed about…

I watched Scorcese's The Last Temptation of Christ the other day and found it tremendously moving. Great performances from Dafoe, Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, et. al. Strange and thought-provoking.

"Snowtown" will put a spring back in your step.