Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be a Christian and believe that your omnibenevolent Creator set you up in a world specifically designed to land you in eternal torment.

At one point, Mike takes a heavy-duty meat tenderizer to the knuckles of a Tesla-driving informant played by DJ Khaled, who is billed as “Khaled (DJ Khaled) Khaled” in the opening credits.

I would have preferred if there were no explanation at all.

Once Upon a Time is a film that spends hours fetishising Sharon Tate then blames her death on her thoughtless failure to be a hardbitten action TV star with a flamethrower in her shed.

“Just a crime film with strippers.” And yet crime films about men often make the lists of greatest films of the year, or of all time. Including this list! I normally am not the kind of person to say generalizing things like “men don’t get it,” but the amount of men I’ve seen saying this movie was just average makes me…

Indeed. The movie is filled with so many familiar faces and so much minutiae that the story that’s really playing out is totally masked until the end of the movie. They even trick the hard-nosed cop into unknowingly playing a key role in the scheme.

Sad news.

Is he allowed to blackmail them by witholding military aid till they do? He is not. The one is questionable enough, but he tied it to the other and that is criminal.

It’s something of a no win situation since the Republican Senate seemingly won’t convict no matter what evidence of wrong doing there is. If Trump held a press conference today and announced that the Russians had hacked voting machines in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconisn to alter vote totals and that he had paid…

That’s whataboutism. It is an attempt to change the topic. For the purposes of this investigation, nobody should care about what Joe Biden did or did not do. If Joe Biden did anything wrong, he should pay the consequences for it. If Joe Biden did anything wrong, that does not give Trump permission to do something…

Because he’s never had a career. He got elected twice to a town smaller than Wayne Messam, who’s currently mayor of Miramar...population 140k, and just dropped out like a month ago.

I’m very confused and worried by that result. Did Labour lose because Corbyn is a socialist, or because he’s unlikeable (or both)? Bernie Sanders is the closest analog we have for Corbyn here in the US, but whereas Corbyn had dismal approval ratings Sanders is by far the most liked politician in America.

Trump: “The process is rigged! They won’t let me tell my side!” (Proceeds to forbid everybody around him from testifying.) Besides, I know your side. You released the transcript that shows you blackmailing the Ukraine into helping advance your career at the expense of the constitution and the security of the country.

You know what happens when They Go Low and We Go High?
THEY WIN!
God I am so fucking tired of hearing the word “shame” all the fucking time like it actually means something or will actually have some sort of effect on these monsters. They have no shame and don’t even understand the concept.

Congratulations, the both of you just unintentionally recreated the “You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?” scene from Happy Gilmore.

You know, I just went back and watched Empire again, and it struck me how much it subverted A New Hope, and what we’d come to expect out of stories like the fantasy fairy tale that Episode IV was. The heroes fight to beat the bad guys? No, the heroes fight to stay alive long enough to escape. The hero gets the girl?…

I loved the subversion of The Last Jedi. I loved the headfake with Snoke. The combined Rey/Kylo fight was great Star Wars choreography. Luke as a burned out hippie who lived to see everything he dedicated himself to be twisted back on itself is a logical outcome that was have real world examples of. Saying Rey’s…

“The original 1990 Jacob’s Ladder was hardly a masterpiece...”

I kind of enjoyed Joker, but it’s the worst kind of movie. Which is to say, it’s a film that purports to be about serious things, but doesn’t have anything to say beyond how terrible the way it is, because it can’t commit to anything. The best you can say about it is that it’s an examination of how white male…

My fellow Chandor super-fan! I knew there was another!!