Money is money, and it makes no difference if Jimmy was the one who rang it up in the first place, or whether he did ring it up or just pocketed it under the table: it's theft either way. And if he did steal a good chunk of the missing money (which I consider to be about as firmly established as it can be without a…

Or she's an executive at Tinder.

he took it a little too far for something that she had no control of.

Slippin' Jimmy as presented in the flashbacks and reminiscences is a total scumbag. It doesn't seem out of character at all.

Nonsense. We see Jimmy steal money, we know he grew up to be a criminal, and we hear him in this very scene express disdain towards his dad for being such a sucker (the very same sentiment associated with him stealing that cash). Of course he stole it.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do.

I think the comic book version is, if not actively dire, at least massively inessential.

*his. Sadiq Khan is a man.

… just based on the box office. However, movies make a significant chunk of money in the aftermarket (VOD, DVD/Blu-ray, TV licensing, streaming). Some movies also earn money through licensed toys, video games, and other licensed products.

It's the sort of pointless "hot take" nonsense that would read as clickbait if it wasn't in the middle of the article.

Well, the discussion was about the Supreme Court. Since partisanship matters in court decisions and the SC leans conservative, it's risky to assume they'll decide the same way as the lower courts.

Have they? I didn't think any of the travel ban cases had been heard by the Supreme Court yet.

Oh, I'm sure he knew other countries would be angry, and saw it as an upside. In fact, the Washington Post is reporting that he did it partly to stick it to Merkel and Macron after they were mean to him during the recent trip, and that he didn't like that the other G7 countries "ganged up" on him in support of the…

Reagan made the "we begin bombing in five minutes" joke that Paige sees on TV on August 11, 1984. The Americans apparently believes that there was still snow on the ground in Moscow in August that year, because it's always winter in Russia.

Yeah, to Obama, and to liberals, and to Europe, and basically anyone who's ever been mean to little Donnie.

I wouldn't say an "aberration", exactly. It's definitely one of the weaker episodes/movies, but many of the ways in which it differs from the early episodes – e.g. more dour, sometimes almost oppressively so – apply more generally to the later movies (particularly the last couple of batches). Sometimes it works quite…

Ehhh… Did you like the And Then There Were None miniseries? It's quite similar, in adding more sex and emotional histrionics, putting an emphasis on twisted psychology and using WWI as a unifying motif. It also has some of the same weaknesses. (It feels a bit sordid, for example, with almost every character mean and…

Having spent a couple of minutes trying to figure out a way to put this without sounding like an asshole, I give up: You mean "grinding".

I think I remember reading that part of the reason for the recent wave of Christie adaptations is that the heirs/rights holders see the copyright expiration looming and are rushing to get out derivative works that will keep producing royalties when that day comes.

Wordplay!