To be fair, Prizzi’s Honor was the rare great dark comedy and Angelica Houston killed it; I’m much more upset that Whoppi didn’t win that year.

Seconded. Not cross country, but I chose to take a sleeping cabin on a trip from MA to MN (didn't get the sleeping cabin until changing trains in NYC), and it, coupled with the viewer cars, was a really interesting way to travel comfortably and see the country. And yes, having plentiful booze access was definitely a…

Or maybe the adults that understand critical reasoning, humanities and their applications in media know that a story can be primarily character driven, especially if said story is based on a shooter game where you go from Point A to Point B. If you want ‘splosions, Transformers and the MCU are right there, bud.

Meh, I agree.

In ye olden times, probably Romney. The ACA was partially modeled after “Romneycare” and he was prochoice as a MA governor. Granted, the Romney of 2008 is not the Romney of 2023. Once he only had the Utah LDS for a power base he changed his tune.

I manage a CCM team, and the value we’ve started to find in AI for generating copy and generic documents has DRASTICALLY reduced time to production- and we work in an industry that is infamously beaurocratic where it used to take ten people debating over content for weeks before something was finalized.

The musical also has that horrible tendency to “correct” elements of the original narrative that the externally online have now deemed “problematic.” Janice wasn’t a lesbian in the film- let’s make her one for the musical! Wow, the lunchroom diagram was eerily accurate as to how students self segregate in schools-…

Exactly. What's even more notable in regards to the bad faith critique of the original film is that Eric ONLY knows Ariel by her voice. It's the primary driver for him to the point that any woman that shows up with Ariel's voice gets the place in his heart. He falls for Ariel DESPITE her silence, not because of it.

The issue with Rowling is less her own views (which contain more nuance and compassion that folks give her credit for) and more the OTHER, far more openly hostile voices she amplifies. She may not be hate-filled, but some of the individuals she retweets, appears with and paraphrases in her screeds absolutely are. It’s…

What’s so terrible about the original film, other than the sad, 2000's bad-faith, “Jezebel Feminism” critiques? The film is well paced, well written, well performed and well animated- there’s a reason it nearly single-handedly revitalized Disney animation.

Why is it that whenever someone dedicates a lengthy screed to say “I’m not victim blaming, it’s just reality” they preempt their comments not about how men and women are exploring their sexuality, but only how women are and that those women are responsible for their “unsafe situations?” What about those young men that…

Tits in Blurred Lines, tits in Gone Girl, Fyre Festival promoter, and spends an inordinate amount of time navel gazing about why people care about her body when she continuously...only promotes her body and her ramblings about said body.

I don’t even know about the “singing” part, because there were so.many.closeups of her stopping to smile while her own lead vocals kept running on in the background.

Testament was just brutal, and it’s one of those “definitely can’t sit through THAT one again” films, whereas even Grave of the Fireflies ends with Setsuko and Seita reunited (if you choose to believe their spirits are real).

Honeself, many of the same folks here braying about transphobia ALSO spent an inordinate amount of time not responding to the misogyny in Activision, Ubisoft, Blizzard etc, or by trying to rationalize the consumption of their precious media. There are commenters in these threads that are REALLY CONCERNED about a woman…

Obviously haven’t seen S3 yet, but there are a couple character send-offs in S2- whether you care is more or less about how invested you were in some of the newer characters.

It’s cute that you think only four years of Trump did this. The GOP has been actively planting judges, establishing TRAP laws, weaponizing religion, gerrymandering districts, and controlling messaging for DECADES. This isn't a four year problem, it's a 40 year systematic destruction of civil rights. We CAN'T "just…

Females? Like a female dog? Because she just wants to hang out the window and enjoy the speed. Female cat? Likes a retractable roof for extra lounging.

In the grand scheme of things, a deli slicer isn’t really that expensive. Folks tend to forget that Subway franchisees often own entire districts of stores, so what they’ll likely do is amortize the cost over the year, and to break even on a standard slicer, they’d have to only increase top line revenue by about $35/…

Lynskey? Arguably, but definitely not Winslet. Heavenly Creatures was great, but Sense & Sensibility, Eternal Sunshine, and Hamlet were better performances- and that’s in no way a ding on her performance in Peter Jackson’s film.