So will we get to see the Italian “justice system” coverage of witchcraft as a legitimate threat?

For two generations, employers have had a bottomless well of prospective workers to pick from. “If you don’t want the job, there is a line of people out the door to do it for what I’m going to pay” Those days are now over. The battle cry of “No one wants to work” is only partially true. No one wants to work for what…

They didn’t create the true crime genre, just serialized it, and coming as journalists you can tell there was some introspection after. A lot of what’s come out after, as podcasts or docs or what have you, have leaned into the aspects that hook viewers/listeners but don’t add and sometimes detract from the subjects. I’…

I suspect that most of the time someone is ordering the $19 burger, they’re not the one who chose the restaurant, and them ordering the burger is the price you’re paying to have the party there at all. It’s like the perfunctory vegan item at the steakhouse.

“I was a bad and abusive husband and he had a journalist dismembered.  We get each other!”

To be fair, US Ghosts is better than UK Ghosts.

I’ve watched both and the American version is waaaaaaayyyy funnier. 

Wait I thought all SB halftime performances were all lip-synced?

I mean, I’d rather hear a mistake or two than watch them acting it out to a pre-recording. And a lot of it was pre-recorded, the girl playing guitar (not sure her name not a hip hop fan) got behind her pre-recorded strum at least once when she made some gesture to the crowd and forgot she had to keep “playing,” and…

It actually lended the performance more authenticity, considering how the half time shows always seem so pre-packaged and produced.  I’m sure she didn’t want it preserved for posterity, however.

I’m surprised that Anyone But You despite both lukewarm to negative reviews, and an underwhelming opening weekend, and it being R-rated, has slowly crawled to being kind of a big hit for a romantic comedy. According to Box Office Mojo it made 170 million dollars on a budget of 25 million, and that’s nothing to sneeze…

She’s undergone a Harvard program

The workaround to the strike delay is creative, and thinking about what that means for the in-universe documentary makes my head spin a little (which can be said of all mocumentary series).

I really don’t understand why sex scenes need to justify their existence when no other scene does.  Nobody asks if every single action scene is necessary to the plot, and then decry it as “bad” or “unneeded” if it doesn’t.  A movie made up entirely of plot would get pretty boring.  It’d be like reading the CliffNotes…

Yeah, it worries me that people think everything has to “add to the plot

Not that I’m totally disagreeing with Cavill here - there is such a thing as a gratuitous sex scene - but I dislike this idea that every element of a movie has to “serve the plot”. The plot is one part of a movie (or any story); a necessary one, but also a largely mechanical one. Stories are so much more than just the…

What’s also not needed are those highly choreographed fight scenes that seem to go on for eternity. The way they’re depicted, it seems so improbable that any part of these fights could go past 10-seconds before someone needs an ambulance. Are either one of these guys asking themselves, “Does this 8-minute fight…

I would like to see these many examples of best friends showing emotions for each other who get turned into canon m/m couples, please and thank you!

Well, I mean, you’re still here reading! I wish the site were more like it used to be, but have a strong hunch that the crazy amount of ads, the insistence of slide shows, the shaky commenting system, likely the editorial direction, etc., have been out of the hands of the writers and managing editors for quite a…

A reminder to readers of The Takeout that its staff has been holding so-far-fruitless negotiations for better pay and working conditions and have authorized a strike if nothing is settled by today — check the Onion Union’s social media sites to see if a strike happens so you don’t accidentally check the Takeout,…