An “unstoppable chain of events” that nevertheless took nearly a hundred years (or more, technically, if you don’t count just from the ‘official founding’ and go by the colonies) and included an incredibly bloody civil war, and still has systemic effects today (that Trump is also happy to downplay if not outright…

America’s founding set in motion the unstoppable chain of events that abolished slavery,

Duckduckgo’s marketing schtick is that it’s a search engine without any data collection or tracking, so if you wanted to search for, say, “my daughter ivanka nude hot” it wouldn’t be permanently logged in some silicon valley database.

“Bouquer” is an (outdated) French verb meaning “(of a dog used in hunting) to bring out of the burrow” and an (obsolete) French verb meaning “give in to force” which I would ordinarily say is a bit of a stretch but this is a film where:

1. The main badass lady who fights men is literally named “Fighter of Men” in Greek…

And paint his fence!!! Turns out Miyagi pulled this scam every year on a different kids. Even the accent is fake, he really has a thick Brooklyn accent.  

Big news for YouTube’s Karate Kid sequel series Cobra Kai: It’s getting called up to the major leagues—or whatever the equivalent metaphor is for martial arts competitions. Regionals? The Olympics? Some kind of Mortal Kombat-style fight to the death on an evil sorcerer’s weird island?

What is also interesting is that ‘A Bug’s Life’ is totally Pixar’s Castle in the Sky. A surprisingly good second movie by a legendary animation studio that is often forgotten because it lives in the shadow of groundbreaking first film

I got the impressions that while Ki-woo seemed like a possibly nice enough guy, the others in the Kim family very well might have gotten what they deserve out of life, being bottom feeding con artists.

This episode was flawed but had moments of greatness - which could be Arrow’s tagline so I guess that’s incredibly fitting. The first 45 mins seemed rushed and poorly paced, the documentary crew was weirdly introduced and then quickly dropped, the flashbacks could have used Felicity, and the explanation of what…

It’s hard for me to express how much I love this show. As cheesy as it sounds, it really has meant so much to me over these last few years. For me, it set new standards for what I enjoy in genre television. Gritty, grounded, character-driven, morally complex. Most of all, Oliver Queen has become one of my favorite…

You know I find it kinda funny everyone is focusing upon the nuts and bolts of how do you make a big fleet like that. The series has as its basic setup Space Wizards. And ‘space’ ships that bank and fly like they’re in atmosphere all the time. I don’t know if there’s enough ink to list all the logistical or…

Saw it last night. A few thoughts:

Bringing back Palpatine from the dead makes Anakin’s sacrifice to kill him moot. As reverent and beholden to the past mythology JJ is, this one change shows he has no idea what his fanfiction desires do to the previous text. He’s a hack, the perfect distillation of Hollywood nepotism rewarding mediocrity.

Rey kissing…

If the biggest stars in podcasting had been clearly non WHM’s

Bang! Pow! These days, comic book stories aren’t just for kids, and the new Wonder Woman movie coming out in 2020 is hoping that adult audiences will give a movie based on a comic book a try. Will this risky bet pay off? Time will tell!  

“Listen, like, that restaurant has been seen by others acting arrogant, okay? It’s like, all right, I’m a fan of the restaurant, you know, but if I’m being factual, okay, I’m representing one true side of it, man. Like, okay? All right?”

Always great to hear someone with seemingly no idea about how any websites work expounding at great length about how and why people who work at websites have written or discussed something (or why they’ve, say, placed something on a best-of-the-year list).

What the fuck are you on about? This laughing academy shit the bed when the show first came out (“It was one of our favorites of 2018! No, we didn’t cover it, we thought it was glib and poorly written — why do you ask?”) and only in the run-up to season two as they realized other entertainment verticals (no need to…

The criticism always seems to be that Elementary never reached the heights of its first two or three seasons, but I think that’s dismissive of the fact that Elementary ended up being significantly better than the majority of us initially thought it would be. I remember being extremely doubtful when I first heard they…

Alex: “Why didn’t you tell me you were getting a new uniform?”