The AV Club

Billionaires, they’re just like you and me, if you and me had so much money we could always get what we wanted, and therefore getting everything we wanted was the default setting of our life and the only criteria by which we judged the value of an outcome and the idea of not getting what we wanted was so strange and…

To claim it’s a sin is par for the course for pretty much every Abrahamic denomination today

The sad part about Bloomberg is he could help the democract cause, if he ran as an independent and aimed his plans as fiscal conservatives and pulled some votes away from Trump.

I have similar feelings, though they in turn largely revolve around the omission of any form of class antagonism, even when that’s what the film is entirely about. Like, if she owns that little shop, then selling it at the prices that were available in the Upper West Side commercial property in the late 90's would…

I’m not worried because I am confident that the American people will never elect a loathsome, racist, clueless, obnoxious New York billionaire to be President.

I guess if by ‘owning themselves’ you mean ‘used it to mobilize people who don’t usually vote to get out and vote for Trump’ then you’re right...?

Obama did call the failure to plan for a post-Gaddafi Libya the worst mistake of his presidency.

Do some digging, even a surface level excavation shows he was a monster. He knew what he was doing, at least enough of the time to not be a good person by any stretch of the imagination. Exhibit A (and probably B, C and much of the rest of the alphabet) Iraq. There's way more than that too.

Well... I know of two films that changed world history and not for the better.  Birth of a Nation created many of the KKKs iconography and directly led to its 1920s resurgence.  Triumph of the Will created all the famous nazi iconography that is ripped off to this day and probably led to countless new recruits for the…

I’d vote for Bloomberg over Trump, but I would be holding my nose hard. Dude caused catastrophic damage to public schools in New York, and if this asswipe follows DeVos then the education system of the country might never recover.

The most irritating thing about Hoffman going method, though, was when he kept barging into Jerry’s apartment and drinking all his juice. 

[Insert comment here about turning off GO Media autoplay videos that cause page to freak out while loading.]

What makes you think there weren’t short-term time capsules being created 70 years ago, or that long-term time capsules aren’t being created now?

See also men who are considered noble heroes for washing dishes once or 'babysitting' their own child/ren once in a blue moon, even though the wife/mom works outside the home too. Lauded for doing the minimum a decent person should be doing. 

Thus, Working Girl joins the curiously long list of rom-coms that prove their romantic lead is a good guy because he doesn’t rape an incapacitated woman when given the chance.

There’s a line where Tess tells Trask that she admires how he smashed the unions and it just sours me on her completely. Can’t enjoy the film for that.

Wade’s script is incredibly smart about the way classism can intersect with feminism, limiting the bonds of sisterhood along particular social lines. The wealthy, well-bred Katharine represents the kind of woman who’s willing to operate within a sexist system so long as she can make it work to her advantage.

I found Force Majeure to be both slow and infuriating. I’m sure this remake is shitty, but I didn’t get the love for the original. 

“He’s desperate to be like a person and have a daemon, just desperate. So I tricked him into thinking that I was your daemon, and I was going to desert you and be his instead, but he had to fight you to make it happen. Because otherwise, Iorek, dear, they’d never let you fight, they were going to just burn you up…