“Lynn, I’ve pierced my foot on a spiiiiiiike!”

He stopped caring about Arcade Fire just like everybody else

I mean, it’s kind of been getting called out by various people for decades it’s just he has a higher profile and a wider platform than most of those calling it out.

I’ll be frank, friend. It’s easier to say that now, and it doesn’t really get to the larger point: that while the TERF stuff isn’t in the content of the book, the goblin/Jewish stuff is, and is frankly in a LOT of myth/fantasy/sci-fi stuff, and we ALL just take it for granted, and literally billions of people don’t…

What’s even funnier is that when she was asked if there were any Jewish characters in Harry Potter, she randomly said “Anthony Goldstein”.

To be fair, there were so many people for whom Harry Potter was the only books they ever read and their sole cultural touchpoint (except for perhaps The Office and Friends) that who could expect them to understand any of the cryptobigotry?  

As well as it being competent as horror, can I also throw in a shout out for its equally better-than-it-needed-to-be science fictional aspect? The technobabble and production design successfully makes it feel like there’s some sort of coherent set of scientific theories operating in the background - something that…

Love how articles like this pop up and suddenly the commenters sound like they had six months as an intern with Michael Bay. “Let me tell you about film production, pal...”

there’s a lot of criticism/ridicule aimed at Kristen Stewart across these sites. they haven’t gotten over Twilight, apparently. 

yes, I feel this take doesn’t quite understand what a life Diana was herself in a world of ghosts.

At their basic premise and origin, American superhero comics had a lot to do with conservative values, being the byproduct of their time. I don’t think there’s really anything anywhere near abhorrent, but many could sure rise an eyebrow nowadays.

MCU movies have so little engagement with the real world that trying to read a political perspective onto them results in endless contradictions. TFA is cynical about the military, except when the military is making Captain America. Winter Soldier is about nazis infiltrating the US government, but the government is…

The difference between the two specials was that Gadsby was saying brave, confessional things that more people needed (and still need) to hear, while Chappelle has just been saying the same old bigoted shit that you can hear in every single shadowy corner of the internet (and, frankly, quite a few well-lit ones too).

“To me, a C represents a film that’s somewhat watchable, mostly forgettable and possibly a waste of your time.”

Ghostbusters is a lightning in the bottle in terms of cast, time, everything.

I have way too much love for the original film, I agree that it was a lightning in a bottle situation, and practically good by mistake. I also think it has some cinematic significance.

A correction: you’re talking about transwomen, not transmen. As in, gendered as and usually biologically male who identify and adopt a female gender, and who might undergo hormone therapy.

Once again, conservatives failing to understand that their views and perspectives are the norm and are already always represented in active and passive ways in video games and the wider culture.

Awesome, welcome. Looking forward to your tenure.