Wait, they took you to see the same movie a couple weeks later? Why?

I would love for it to be good - good show in the world is better than bad show in the world. But I can't conceive of how this won't be either pure shock value or an insincere/warped sanitization of what modern day chattel slavery would look like.

Sure is a difference, but is it a meaningful one?

The thing is, her image, lyrics, and style are all manufactured engineered to pander to a certain millennial tumblr art hoe/basic forlorn white girl audience. That apparently offends some people enough that they'll forget that as far as pop music goes, Lana Del Rey is pretty up there in terms of quality. Me, it can be…

If you have access to them, Smuttynose Summer IPA and/or Berkshire Brewing Company's Inhopnito are great

Had Smuttynose's "Finest Kind"? That's NE style (I use that as an example because it's well-crafted and not pander-y). Stone IPA is archetypical west coast style. If you haven't had one or the other I'd recommend you give 'em a try.

For a lot of people in America it's one of the first European beers they try after they hear Europeans say that all American beer is piss water. Leffe is really weak, but it's certainly more flavorful than every American football beer. Plus the name (not incomprehensible but with a pronunciation that isn't immediately…

I know you didn't ask for this but you might like Berkshire Brewing Company's "Inhopnito." Hop pun in the name of the beer almost always means boozy, bitter, lazy mess, but BBC understands that balance is the most important thing in a beer. It's got the tasty, fruity hop flavors, properly balanced with a perfect…

I completely agree about the ending of that movie. It's the same reason I've been reluctant to read Asimov's "Foundation" even though it's heavily lauded

I'm all for calling out fascist propaganda, but it seems the central theme of the incredibles was more about family synergy and mutual uplifting/communication/trust than anything else. I mean, at one point Mr. Incredible even goes "I'm not strong enough." The villain exists as a gratuitously complex (not to say it's…

This video is somehow less funny than the movie. What's it even lampooning?

Did you read the article? It's all about how the film's politics DIDN'T nail it. Wasn't horrible, and the world's probably better for having this film in existence, but there are still things to critique about it.

I'm not sure how discussing how one thing isn't good enough equates to "nothing is ever good enough." The author essentially TOLD us what she thought was "good enough" - a movie that gives Wonder Woman and her relationships with people who aren't Steve Trevor - more control over the plot than her male love interest.…

No, it's like saying "here's how we can get to mars next time" after we've had two straight weeks of everyone celebrating the moon landing.

It IS being celebrated. With hundreds of millions on the internet, SOMEONE has to come with another viewpoint or lens. If a movie doesn't meet every milestone we'd want in a feminist movie, it never will unless it's made clear with articles and thinkpieces like this one.the author is essentially saying what you put…

Who ISN'T enjoying that? Even the author expressed that she liked the film overall.

Bruh, if the movie were horrible, there'd be no need to critique it because it'd be obvious. It was solid but could've been better on many fronts, and so we're critiquing it. What's wrong with that?

In a lot of ways, one of which was what you're talking about, Diana was written like a child. Naivete (which was a plot device that meshed poorly with the other things), the grabiness, her temper tantrums, the exasperated talks Steve had to give her. I get that Diana's supposed to be a hothead fish out of water, but I…

Great piece overall. While I agree that Steve has two much screentime and influence relative to the other characters that are supposed to connect Diana to mankind, it seems the flirty banter and "moments" they had were a necessity if we as audience members are to find their romance compelling and convincing.

Jimmy Page dated a 14 year old while he was in Led Zeppelin. People taking advantage of children they have emotional influence over isn't some "millennial" thing.