Or most Tuskens can be slave traders and they can also be portrayed as an intelligent race with their own customs and value system. We don’t have to like them for them to be humanized. Agree that it’s good the shows are giving them more detail and nuance.

It’s funny to me that one of the cruelest moments of the episode, to me, was how shitty Kendall was that Naomi’s gift wasn’t good enough when she was clearly self-conscious about it. Then I come here and the reviewer mentions three times how upset she is that NAOMI could be so thoughtless. It came up more times than…

“..franchises struggling to live up to their potential..”.

Are we really calling Charlie Kaufman an expert of adapting books into movies? Because I'm pretty sure I'm Thinking Of Ending Things was just a three-hour POV of the view that Charlie Kaufman has with his head firmly up his own ass.

The title makes me smh. Some articles should point out race, but this one is not needed. You could just say:

What is grief? It’s what the Internet gives you, if you said something mildly offensive 13 years ago.

Would you say it’s an an-Amélie????

Yeah, maybe. Or ill-informed about the history of the Pinkertons. I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if an English actress didn’t have the most in-depth knowledge of the history of the American labor movement.

“there is something to be said for the fact that Marvel jumped at the chance to replace a Black man with a white woman in its promotional materials.”

YES!!! There is a defense to this! It is a plot point in a lot of heavy sci-fi, my particular favorite is in the 3 Body problem series. I do not understand physics in any way suitable to describe why it is a real thing, but people much smarter and with very cool ideas say it is, and that is enough for me. If you are…

Talking about Star Wars on the internet is positively exhausting at this point.

I don’t understand this take at all. In a movie that is already overweighted by references to the original trilogy, the fact that it avoids bringing the three characters together is one of the few impressive pieces of restraint, and holding Luke’s entrance until the final shot was a perfect decision.

Johnson did not "undo" a single thing of Abrams'. He subverted a lot of AUDIENCE expectations but he respected and pursued everything that Abrams set up. Just because he didn't do the thing Abrams secretly, without ever writing it down, WANTED him to do, doesn't mean he undid anything. It means Abrams is a hack and a…

Where movie ideas are concerned, Lucas gets a lifetime pass.

I’ve not rewatched this in a few years but I remember loving it every time I saw it.

I feel like this is a correlation, not causation, thing. Look at the movie quality difference between the top and bottom of the list. Nobody in Mongolia wants to see a Tyler Perry movie because no one anywhere should.

She shouldn’t have to respond to this. It’s very likely she had zero awareness of the organization’s racist past when this happened (twenty goddamn years ago); she shouldn’t have to apologize for something she had no knowledge of.

So she entered a pageant and/or attended some weird debutante event. Is there any indication that she was aware it had a racist history? It may be hard for some on here to believe, but googling the damn thing wasn’t an option in 1999.

This is like the most AVClub-ish response I could have imagined. We have separate sports categories for a reason, but let’s just throw that out the window. Sex doesn’t exist but gender identity is real, once someone says they’re a women then of course metaphysically they must actually be one for any and all purposes…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is right. JK Rowling is not transphobic. Anyone who *actually* read her personal essay would know this.https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/