The one teen was essentially forced in by his father.

Not unaware at all. They got the structural failure alerts and were trying to ascend when it imploded. They knew what was going on.

“how there’s the FAA regulating what goes into passenger jets so they’re built well for near worry-free traveling so we don’t have to be engineering experts.”

Ironically, the answer to your last sentence is in your first sentence!

It’s all Barsanti. The whole situation is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a snarky report on the box office draw of Kung Fu Panda 4.  

Recognitions? *takes drag on cigarette* There’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.

Do we call all those guys (because they’re all guys) “mentally ill?”

...Frank Stallone?

You guessed it...

When can we expect people to “grow up,” though? Taylor Swift is in her mid-30s, and a lot of her fans are the same age, and have been following her like a role model for their own lives. The culty zealots include post-collegiate working adults with daughters of their own. This isn’t naivete. These women are insane.…

Here’s the thing: He can get distribution—he’s having trouble getting it at the buy-in he wants, which was with something like $100 million in marketing as first reported. Him buying in doesn’t mean other people, let along businesses, need to in the same manner, especially if it was to release art for art’s sake he…

Like I said, I want to see it because it does sound fascinating. But I’m seeing a lot of people assuming it must be a masterpiece because it’s Coppola, and again, where were they for his last few films? Canon shmanon, I’m basing my expectations on having actually seen the last 25 years of his output.

Full disclosure, all I know about this law is Matt Schimkowitz’s description of it here, which I concede is probably *eh-hem* not the most reliable way to learn about a topic for discussion, but a law that prevents movies from going to streamers for fifteen months after its theatrical release sounds more like the…

Coppola only makes passion projects and has only done so since he made The Godfather in 1972.

I’m perfectly happy with the system we’ve currently got, I agree it would be much better for studios if they pulled the window back quite a lot, and 15 months sounds like an absolutely absurd amount of time. A simple solution would be to go back to the six months or whatever it used to be, but a better one would…

France also has a great law that requires streaming services to wait 15 months after a theatrical release before a movie can end up on streamers, which is probably great for theaters and physical media sales.

“What do B&B have to do with AI?”

yeah, “i respect and praise what beyonce is doing but am just not into a pop star’s country album” isn’t the spiciest take out there

My favorite genre is ‘article drumming up controversy from comments that are not all that controversial punctuated by snarky internet commentary’

I remember the big thing I felt I learned from the You’re Wrong About episodes was about Kato Kaelin. I had remembered him as being a lunkhead friend of O.J.’s, when in fact, he was Nicole’s lunkhead friend. He had originally lived with Nicole as a roommate, but O.J. had lured Kato away with the promise of his own…