I grew up in Chicago and had a similar dream when I was about 6. Maybe it was just an urban legend, but supposedly the waitlist was so long for tickets people would sign up when they got engaged and hope to get in the audience before their kids were too old to appreciate it.
What’s your childhood thing you would do in a heartbeat if asked?
I’ll go first; I’ve always wanted to write a Doctor Who episode.
I’m happy more and more Americans are coming around to the gender-neutral use of “cunt”.
That sounds impressive, but that’s only 25 elections. So it’s happened 20% of the time. The percentage goes up once you start factoring in that not all of those elections were against a sitting president. That drops it down to 15(I think?) and about a 1 in 3 shot. It’s such a limited sample that the advantage feels…
The success of The Mandalorian and Andor would be arguments against the thesis of this article. It isn’t about the franchise belonging in one story format or the other, it’s about that story itself.
Yeah. Much to my shame, I don’t have a photographic memory of the events of True Lies, so I’m open to the possibility that there are jokes, comments, etc. in the movie that are inappropriate. But none of those things are described in the article. The author’s objection mainly seems to be that the terrorists in the…
No. And thing is, you know that.
The purpose of the hotel scene was for him to come clean about what he does for a living. He was completely unprepared for her dance routine and probably expected something closer to what she started with, then to tell her the truth. That was a stab at marital communication from a guy already proven to be somewhat…
Is it xenophobic to depict terrorists as being Arab/Muslim? The movie came out in 1994, two years after al-Qaeda terrorists killed six people trying to destroy the World Trade Center using a car bomb, and four years after the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole killed 17. Of course, in 1994, the most striking examples of…
Regarding the xenophobia, I think it’s reasonable to point out the characterization of these particular Muslims was based upon their fanaticism / extremism and not meant to be reflective of the region as a whole. I didn’t come away from, for instance, Patriot Games thinking all Irish are IRA assassins.
I have the exact opposite take - it was a wake-up call for a neglectful husband who thought everything he did was global life and death, and what she did was zero stakes (e.g. her going with the made-up copier excuse for why she was leaving the office when unbeknowst to her he stopped by). He was completely caught…
I also maintain that Endgame aside most of the MCU movies go out of their way to cater to people who got dragged to them and didn’t see the others. Often via clunky exposition.
Yeah but the joke is consistently on Harry. He’s the one who is suspicious and paranoid. He’s the one who gradually realizes that his neglect of Helen is what might be driving her to cheat. He’s the one who’s surprised both at her outburst in the interrogation room and when her dancing in the hotel room evolves as she…
It’s right up there on screen. They have her out on a fucking crane. Disgusting!
I don't see the abuse of Dushku as something the viewer has to deal with. I'd bet most people aren't even aware.
“…she worked on a kibbutz and eventually joined Zionist paramilitary organization Haganah, where she was trained as a scout and a sniper. After sustaining a serious injury in the 1947-1949 Palestine war, Westheimer left what was, by then, the State Of Israel…”
Right now, Baldwin is probably home, with a glass of scotch, rolling his eyes as his wife asks him what it means that he is “how you say, not guilty.”
do marvelcels still say pathetic shit like “winter solider was a 70s spy film”?
Wow, this looks terrible.