This should also come as welcome news for chronic pain sufferers, who will be relieved to find they needn’t take prescription opioids for pain when they could instead just rub a French fry on what hurts.

There’s something amusing about seeing almost pornographically morose themes handled with squeamishness and obsessive cleanliness—a film about teenage romance and slow death that never acknowledges that anything happens with the human body.

The academy still nominated Darkest Hour. The only movie that should win any oscars in any year is Mad Max Fury Road.

Every single time I even see his name, let alone see his face, I have a PTSD-lite flashback to the montage in Into the Wild where Emile Hirsch inexplicably looks straight at the camera. Sean Penn in front of a camera is agonising. Sean Penn behind a camera is world ending.

... or a newly unemployed Jeff Sessions.

Great. Colbert will give Ginsberg a damn heart attack and we’ll have another Neil Gorsuch on our hands.

Devastating

I feel like the only person who needs a trigger warning is Virgil, who has been enslaved into guiding your acquaintances through your strange, cassette-based afterlife.

A lot of your comments are good. But not about Korra’s regression into teenage arrogance and petulance. Her arc gave me permission to really dislike her, and the key fault of the season is that they didn’t provide an antagonist that I could get behind in equal measure. Had Korra come out of a silly pro-bending love…

If 50 million people were surreptitiously targeted with facty facts rather than alternative facts, 15 million of them would have still voted for Donald Trump.

Alien Covenant’s daytime creature CGI completely erased my ongoing frustration with dimly lit nighttime/raining CGI megafights. No amount of Fassbender on Fassbender fingering or Kenny Powers singing Take Me Home Country Road in space could make up for the xenomorph sunbaking.

To be honest, Hughes probably would.

Come on, yes it’s broken, but it’s hardly dogshit.

I know, the bath makes no sense. She could have lost her memory, slipped into the spirit world, and had Iroh tell her the Avatar Wan story. I just think, “Ok, Nick, get ready for storytime with Raava, hey Spirited Away was cool, I haven’t watched that for a while, I would love to go to a spirit spa”.

Even though I’m a total diehard I had to laugh at this. Unfortunately, it’s all true. I can still rewatch Korra very fondly, even if it takes a bit of additional effort.

Yeah you’re right. I’d forgotten that the animation was really different, like it clearly signals *you’re watching a story, we’ll get back to the real world in a minute~.

This isn’t really how Avatar presents bending I’m sorry. Katara’s status as the last waterbender in the Southern water tribe, and her mother’s deception in the face of the fire nation point to the fact that she is special and unique. Sokka’s chronic interiority complex over his inability to bend is never really…

I am a terribly devoted Avatar fan and I think about this stuff all the time. I’ve landed on two ways of watching the shows and reconciling the story of Avatar Wan:

An opinion page with Bret Stephens, David Brooks and Lindy West is a propaganda machine? I mean, I’m interested in hearing your case. I’m just struggling to figure out what state sponsored policies all three of them can agree are real. Throw Charles Blow and that 15-year-old AR-15 fanatic James Bennet found in a…

Reality TV is enough of a worthy cultural artefact to pull apart and play with. Forays into feminism and racism feel like silly detours for this show because for whatever bizarre reason they aren’t embedded into the characters, they’re instead treated like issues that can be basically resolved. I normally really value…