“And I don’t want to do that in a little, obscure arthouse corner, but to do it where you actually have an impact on the culture. So I’m always going to work with these types of topics—the female gaze and gender roles.”

Um — not that on-the-nose, PF77. Ian Fleming was desperate to prove himself as the younger, and sicklier, son with a brother who was a star athlete, war hero, and bestselling author of travel books and picaresques like The Flying Visit, where Hitler parachutes into England but nobody believes he’s Hitler! After some…

Very good film. I came out thinking “very good film, but they’ve had to take some liberties with the facts to make it”. But my wife has read the book, and she started telling me that a lot of the seemingly more outlandish plot driving elements were true.

Is that a... Double Darcy?

Always nice when a movie you were going to watch anyway gets a great review.

I read about a study where prosecutors had to look over a case all they did was change the name from being something like John Smith to Juan Chavez to see how they would prosecute the case; like would they take a plea deal, how lenient the plea deal would be, would there be jail time etc. and it was about as awful as…

My view is that they should be recorded but that if I person wants a copy post-trial they have to go to the county courthouse to get it or some other procedure. I do think there are benefits for law students to be able to view these trials and I do support the right to information but I don’t think that means it has…

I am seeing a LOT of people who just crush her but insist they’re not misogynists (women and men), but the ferocity with which they do it does give you pause.  It certainly has bubbled up a whole lot of unpleasant reactions with a whole lot of unpleasant implications.

in my country the party’s testimonies are the last in the trial, and they testify one after another.

oh I know who Jimmy is, I saw the Netflix doc about that scumbag, I felt that heat of that burn through my monitor LOL

I don’t have a dog in this race regarding this shitshow spectacle of a courtroom fire, but Johnny Depp has always been at best a poor man’s Robert Downey Jr., like if he only played roles like Tropic Thunder.

And of course at the end of the day it boils back down to a he said/she said case. They’re the only ones who were there, and even things they told people at the time could be exaggerations or fabrications. This whole thing is an effort by Depp to rehabilitate his image in the U.S. public eye, or at least make it look…

“But with Johnny Depp it’s different somehow”

Because people WANT to like Johnny Depp. He’s a well liked actor who played a couple of beloved roles from a lot of people’s childhoods. People are LOOKING FOR an excuse to forgive him. And he, or his lawyers, are smart enough to know that. So this whole trial is about…

It’s certainly depressing in that respect. We have to endure all of his bullshit first and the well is poisoned from the public’s perception.

honestly if I were her attorney (and had a choice in the matter, which I don’t think she does being the defendant) I’d rather testify right before the jury has to deliberate, so that my testimony was fresher in their minds.  After the past few weeks all the jurors may want to do is take a long scalding hot shower LOL.

if you REALLY want to enrage one of his stans (and honestly who doesn’t? ;-)) just casually mention that bullying someone with litigation like he is with her is a move out of the t***p playbook. Wow they REALLY hate when you say that, which is why I’ll keep saying it LOL.

I honestly don’t see what he won...if anything this will be a Pyrrhic victory for him. He should have ignored the advice of his lawyers and/or PR team and taken the L in England, gone away for a few years, and then been welcomed back to Hollywood as Mel Gibson did, but instead he’s gonna have every single bit of his…

Publicity (good or bad) is the only thing he’s winning here. He’s doing so much to try and prove Heard is an abuser he’s doing very little to prove that the public comments and op-eds were false. Ya know, the whole requirement of defamation. In fact his side has shot thier own arguments in the foot by saying the ACLU…

One of the many issues with this case is the judge shouldn’t have allowed cameras in the courtroom and just make people read the transcripts which they won’t.* Just like how 90% of the internet has no idea was gaslighting or narcissism is; the internet also has no idea how trials work, how lawyers present evidence,…

It’s weird how people are looking at this like it’s a real trial, when it’s just a massive revenge campaign so he can destroy her. I’m not even sure if he expects to rehab his reputation when it’s all over. Before this trial, people were aware of SOME of his behavior, but now we’re hearing ALL of it. It’s clear he is…