Why include Lube Man if he doesn’t contribute anything to the plot at all?

I gotta say, if the message Lindelof thinks we ought to take away from his Watchmen is that we need heroes to rise up and take on the insidious threat of white supremacy, he’s got a very different understanding of what it means to remain faithful to the spirit of the original graphic novel than I do.

How exactly is Angela supposed to fight white supremacy? She’s not psychic. She can’t wave her hand and change people’s minds. As long as the white supremacists don’t put on masks and say “hey, look at us, we’re a cabal of open racists” there’s not much Manhattan’s powers can really do in that context. The problem of…

I mean, the questionableness of anyone having Doctor Manhattan’s power and trying to use it “for good” was one of the major themes of the source work.

ugh- for the umpteenth time the reason the Jon Hamm character isn’t getting the scrutiny is because he is a made up character. Wilde is playing a real woman (who is dead and can’t defend herself) who is being slandered by this movie implying she slept with someone for a story. if they made up a fake character to be…

The thing that frustrates me when actors make gaffes like this, whether it is Wilde playing a reductive character who trades sex for career advancement, or Timothee Chalamet working with Woody Allen, or any number of cis actors who play trans, or straight who play queer, is that in so many cases, they don’t NEED this…

Any leader offering the Labour party’s version of social democracy and foreign policy will be equally demonised by the Guardian and 90% of all other british media. Most labour members are more aware of the bias present in the british media and understand capitulating to them will not solve anything. Heck even Ed…

It’s hard to get a good image when 80% of the press vehemently smears you on a daily basis. https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/jeremy-corbyn-is-the-most-smeared-politician-in-history/18/07/

Loqueesha probably should be on the list (though Jesse’s post about the difficulties of catching up on every horrible limited-release film is noted.) However, if you’re looking for Loqueesha content, Nathan Rabin pretty much dedicated his website to writing about it this year.

The story isn’t invalid because a white man is at the center of it, but that doesn’t mean the most interesting way to make a movie about a right-wing, white supremacist terror attack is to make it solely about an aggrieved white man.

That’s the point. It is meant to indict the media allowing the trumpers to flee further into their bubble. The villain of the film is not the actual terrorist but the media. No one argues that the media did not get it wrong or that Jewell wasn’t screwed over by the FBI.  So who is this film for besides people who are…

The Fox news crowd is turning this into an indictment of both the entire media industry and the FBI/deep state which - sure, they fucked up.

It is possible to take a true story that involves a real injustice, and still portray it in a way that twists the lessons we should learn from that story or serves a more nefarious storyline. Richard Jewell truly faced an injustice, and was screwed over in a way that shows some pretty systemic issues with law…

Not sure where the OP is going, but I don’t think anyone is objecting to the scene because it portrays a woman having a sexual side.  No one is mad because they expected Scruggs to be “sexless” and she was portrayed as being a person interested in sex.  They are objecting because the specific sexual transaction at…

The way she talks about Scruggs as though Scruggs is a character (and not an actual deceased person with a family) is pretty gross. Like, you’re not making a fictional character more complex. You’re just slurring a dead person.

This, as the kids say, ain’t it.

The thing I always wonder about is how much our understanding of these sexual identities even matters that much in such pre-Kinsey days. Would someone like Will even think of himself in those terms?
Reading any specific sexual identity onto Will, beyond having a some sense of his queerness, seems like projection on our…

Hey,

I really enjoyed this recap, but, one thing: why do you assume William is gay and not bi? He seems to have a healthy sex life with June (they get pregnant after all and there isn’t any indication she’s unhappy with him in that aspect), and it’s difficult to read you talking about queerness being erased while you…