But the vast majority of the actors are Maori.

To be fair, after the prequels, people were calling for that very type of diversity (anybody but Lucas)

FACT: 100% of Ulysses S. Grant autobiographies were written by a white guy.

Of course, if Star Wars is “a series that’s been so fundamental to so many people of all walks of life,” that calls into question why the lack of diversity is a problem. I mean, if Kennedy wants to hire more women or non-white people to work on the franchise, that’s great, but it’s silly to act as though the…

Well seeing as how 4 of the Star Wars movies were directed by the SAME white man and it was his creation.... this article’s premise is so irrelevant as to pass right by being irritating right to being laughable.

Why wasn’t he charged with a felony for making the cops go through a 25 page PowerPoint presentation?

Wow, a horse racing article on Deadspin and all the ignorant hot take haters again come out the wood work. I’m shocked. Most corrupt sport? How do you figure? Proof please. Unlike every other sport we have state regulators breathing down our neck. High strung animals? Yes there are a few, but there are also a few…

I just love the sport. I realize I am in the extreme minority of that statement, especially because I am under the age of 65. But I love the sport. I love the competition and uncertainty that is involved with every race. They each tell a story. I don’t own a horse, will never own a horse and bet on the horses a few…

“Can you pay 1/50 of a Bitcoin?”

The Ataris. Typical. Q-Bert was busted for a pyramid scheme in the eighties.

Solo: A Not-Screened-For-Critics Story

Wait, an actual boxer is gonna be in a Rocky movie? What if he accidentally puts his gloves in front of his face once or twice just based on muscle memory?

Yes, let’s take advice on preparing lobsters from the great seafaring nation of Switzerland.

It’s an inconvenient, uncomfortable movie about uncomfortable people who can be very ugly to each other and leave a lot unresolved. You are supposed to feel uncomfortable finding humanity in Rockwell because of how viscerally loathsome he was for the first half - I know I was uncomfortable. I also know it all felt…

It’s just the way it’s going to be from now on because it’s just so easy. No need to read up on film history, learn about cinematography etc. Some of reviews now imply that reviewer may not have even watched the movie. You just check the cast and crew list and sort by gender, race etc to apply some kind of checklist,…

The amount of people here saying “I haven’t seen the movie yet, but here’s what I think about it” is embarrassing.

The idea that a human being can’t hold abhorrent beliefs in one area and not continuously and permanently occupy the same place in the moral spectrum in all subsequent scenarios as a result of that is its own bizarre form of puritanism.

Jeez... I love film criticism... and I’m progressive... but we’re getting to a horrible social media version of the era when every single book and play was filtered through a feminist and racial critique. (Thankfully, Twitter users aren’t getting to the Marxist criticisms yet.) I don’t think these are bad approaches,…

The idea that it’s “offensive” to suggest we might see our preferred cultural targets as anything less than one-dimensional monsters is a reminder that when people say they like art that’s “challenging” and “subversive”, they don’t really mean it.

So, we complain about the trend of movies bowing to audience expectations, and then we slam movies for not being as woke (or the wrong kind of woke) as we expect them to be?