The salad and breadsticks idea is pure genius.

Years ago I had community service, because I love the community and shit. We had to take a PBT before we were allowed on the van. They informed us not to eat Honey Buns before arriving because they gave a reading of alcohol. They figured this out only after watching the cameras and seeing other like minded community…

i agree entirely. i think it elides a lot of the complexity of the movie to just look at it so narrowly from a gender-foregrounding perspective. ‘sorry to bother you’ is nothing if not deeply intersectional.

David Duke (Topher Grace)

So we’ve got a lunchtime food delivery service at the office I work at just outside of Minneapolis, and Edible Arrangements is on it at least once a week.

So the general narrative coalescing around this one is that it’s Spike’s best since 25th Hour? This review, even with the paragraph describing perceived shortcomings, makes this movie sound like a big deal.

DEFINITELY the latter. I can’t imagine even that writer walked out of the movie going “Hmm, Detroit didn’t explicitly state her opinion on the progressive tax rate, I wonder if she’s a Republican??”

While I’ve enjoyed almost all of his work, I haven’t been this excited about a Spike Lee film in ages. Can’t wait to see it. 

This is the first Spike lee movie in at least 15 years I am actually excited about. After his recent late-career revival on Netflix, he might be on a creative upswing again.

I really disagreed with the Bitch article, especially with how it used the revelation of Detroit’s own “white voice” as an example of how the character is ill-defined. In my opinion, that moment (and the questions it brings up) is exactly what makes the character and movie so great. Were Detroit a one-dimensional…

I mean, my response back to that writer would be “Either you weren’t paying attention, or you have very poor comprehension skills, OR you’re deliberately looking for something to nitpick in this movie so you can write your hot take on a movie that has been otherwise lauded in the liberal sphere. All scenarios make you…

The statement that we “don’t learn what her politics are” might be the most insane complaint I’ve ever heard.

It did kind of bother me that she seemingly gets a ‘pass’ for using a white voice.

The most inventive and fresh movie I’ve seen in at least a decade.

I loved her character so, so much. I love that she hooked up with the other guy because she wanted to and that it didn’t ruin her relationship with Cassius. For some reason, that spoke to me so much and I thought it was incredibly realistic. Little things like that. She loves Cash, but he doesn’t make or break her. It…

It’s almost like... film is a visual medium and some things are better shown, not told.

I tend to agree with Boots Riley on this one; I didn’t read Detroit as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl. In fact, I think her own character arc was itself a pretty savage look at the ways in which even the hardcore Leftist has to conform to capitalism in order to survive; hell, she has her own damn “white voice,” and it’s…

That or Lay All Your Love On Me would be my vote.

Cher is crazy beautiful, and she’s 72. (She looks late 40s, early 50s to me).