I suppose. But I would have said you weren't a leftist at all if you couldn't support John Brown.

Mixed reviews are generally about damning with faint praise.

Re Syd Field: Re watch Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation and the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Muse." (The best Torres story in my opinion by the way.) Perhaps the three act structure works best for daydreams, not for drama that aims to reflect the real world, whether a real society, or a real history, or a real life.…

The movie is very plain about how Newt Knight doesn't save the slaves. His ultimate failure is one of the things that diffuse the narrative so effectively, I think. He does manage to lead a mostly white community into a brief victory. The big revenge story is about killing the officer who hung some white men after…

Technically, Jim Crow was devised in the Nineties, as the political opening provided by the (rotten) Compromise of 18676 was exploited.
Reconstruction, especially Congressional/military Reconstruction most certainly did not lead to a new form of slavery either. That's why Jim Crow required the ending of Reconstruction…

The "white savior" BS was something that fake leftist over at IO9 came up with as an excuse for people who couldn't stand the white people losing and doing the perp walk at the end of Avatar.

The other character hitting those he loves to protect them is Kyle Barnes.

This may be the perfect AV Club review: Totally on point and completely spoiler free!

It has been reported that there is an amazingly high break down rate in dashboard cameras, where they just don't work any more. By the way, simply turning it off leads a record itself and always raises the question of why they turned the thing off in the first place.

Saw the movie today. From a conventional stand point the movie is a disaster, hence the low grade by AV Club. There are actually two heroic leads, Matthew McConaughey's Newton Knight and Mahershala(lhashbaz) Ali. The one is dumped by his wife but he doesn't even seem to mind and he takes up with (cheats) with an…

And I thought the best thing about BvS was the best thing about the other Superman movie, Amy Adams' Lois Lane. As for fight/action scenes, my taste is things like Die Hard, Speed, Children of Men, John Wick, Fury Road. Nolan's not even on the radar.

Yes, the Adam West Batman is more fun than the Nolan/Snyder Batman. (You seem to have ridden your crippled hobbyhorse to death and the plot has escaped you. )

Alternative hypothesis: The Nolan Batman was never that well done, much less deep, and the original comment was just smoke.

More fun than Nolan/Snyder.

It has its upside. Now the Adam West Batman doesn't look so bad!

I've never enjoyed the Nolan movies enough to rewatch. But how did Goyer condemn this movie eleven years ago, long before it came out.

The racial subtext in classic Westerns makes Confederate heroes the natural fit. Union protagonists are villains, as in Major Dundee or The Man from Colorado. Off the top of my head, the only classic Westerns I can remember with a positive ex-Union hero is Vera Cruz (where being bosom buddies with the Confederate hero…

Not being able to see much difference in Nolan's Batman and this one, I'm not sure what to make of this inside baseball. But if we start looking at the producers we find David Goyer again. So maybe my big beef on this movie is with him. But he's not Zack Snyder, who I don't find to be much more than a technician on…

The Dominion only had to read an encyclopedia article on Bajor. So I don't get your objection they didn't know. They were shapeshifters, surely to God they were supposed to have used that to reconnoiter? Maybe not, though, the show really was badly written.

Don't drink, not into BDSM or whatever, and prefer my ballsy women not to have hideous makeup.