And it looks like the '34 example was just a submission of the poem to a union journal by one of its members, which means it was almost certainly in circulation before that.

The things I like about it are offset so hard by the voiceover, which is an absolute hurdle to me appreciating the film at any greater level. I wish it weren't so - the people who love it seem to really love it, and I wish I shared that love - but I almost think I'd have a better experience putting it on mute and…

Lennie James and Melissa McBride continue to act far above the material they're given. Even though the moment itself was kinda forced, Morgan accidentally saying his son's name instead of Benjamin is some of the finest work James has done on the show.

I think you can walk a fine line by saying you won't take sides in disputes that weren't adjudicated, but if you're going to turn around and also lay out the defendant's argument for him, it kinda undercuts your stated belief that no one can possibly know what really happened.

Nah, Sam's right: what makes the op-ed so strange isn't that Lonergan is defending himself, but that the tone and nature of his argument only draw attention to him in the worst, and most unnecessary way. Lonergan also elides between the fact that "nothing was proved or disproved" in the settlement into implying that…

Well, I wouldn't teach our popular version of history as a model, either. We have our own ways of warping things.

If the brief bit of content is that LeFou runs off with Gaston at the end, that's equally fitting…

We're talking about a country where the creator of a recent, stalled film about Tchaikovsky was shocked and angry that anyone would consider the composer gay, and had the audacity to suggest his depression and possible suicide were due to false gay rumors about him. Not being able to talk about these things in public…

Likewise.

Too many to count, but the ones I like the most are Renata Adler's two novels (Speedboat and Pitch Dark), two by Vasily Grossman (the giant Life and Fate and the unfinished Everything Flows), Milton Rokeach's bizarre case study The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, Gilbert Seldes' history of American cults and scams The…

I don't know what Howard is translating as "creature" (I don't have a copy of the book), but I can find only three uses of the word "créature" in the Maupassant.

Any indication why they changed the title? Strong As Death is Maupassant's (from a line in the Song of Songs, so there's an implied word missing from the title: "love") Seems like this re-title misses an important allusion?

It’s not at all clear why the protagonist of My Life As A Zucchini…is nicknamed Zucchini. The little boy’s real name is Icare, which doesn’t sound anything like the French word for “zucchini” (“courgette”), and he looks… more like a potato, as other kids around him quickly and cruelly observe

I think it's a combination of two things: the goodwill left over from how good her arc was until a few season ago, and the fact that Melissa McBride can act circles around the rest of the cast (just this season: her reaction to meeting Ezekiel for the first time is the only time I've ever watched TWD and thought…

Same thoughts. It's weird, though: there's a lot of overlap in the Venn diagram between this group and Alpha's, except for, ya know, their most important feature. I wonder if that means they're going to revamp the latter completely (which, I hope not, since that arc is my favorite thing the comics have done.)

Lord, I'm in no ways smarter than you. But I'd happily consent to joint custody of my new favorite bedtime-story reader.

I hated it from that awful opening title, but even if the ship had somehow righted (it didn't), the scene that made the whole movie irredeemable for me is his rant about the shallow falseness of greeting cards ("There's enough bullshit in the world without my help"), because all I kept thinking was, FFS, this movie is…

I really, really despise this movie - but I have to agree this is a pretty solid sequence, and easily the best thing in the film (although, to second D'Angelo, it'd work better without the words underneath.)

May be worth mentioning that Anna Rose Holmer directed The Fits, so this is basically a collaboration between two of my top ten movies of 2016. Nifty!

Is this the universe's idea of balance? Like, the world is going to shit so badly that we need to create the most desirable movie possible?