“Silence is violence” is such a dumb slogan. Even a child would know that doesn’t make sense, whereas “nothing comes from nothing” is seemingly tautological. If not for the insistence on a rhyme one could go with “Silence is complicity” for the more condensed version of that mangled Burke quote about evil triumphing…

Terrible!? It had a gorilla named “Tracy” driving a car while the character named “Kong” was a human! That’s genius!

The one film of hers I actually like is “Destroyer”, but I think Karyn Kusama might be a good fit to direct it. Jason Reitman was a producer on one of her films, she’s done more horror than him, and even blended horror with comedy in Jennifer’s Body (which was not unjustly derided at the time, Diablo Cody’s writing…

I haven’t seen many Korean war films (I think just “Men in War”, “The Steel Helmet” and “Fixed Bayonets!”), but the ones I have seen were all American so I’d be curious to see another perspective. I also don’t think I’ve seen any films on the Second Sino-Japanese War, which I expect China has made a number of.

Huh, I’ve been spelling it wrong all this time.

We’ve already got an overabundance of people giving their opinions on things they have no connection to or special insight on (“the AV Club!”, a punchline I haven’t seen in a while). It’s a really stupid norm to regard people as obligated to have & express an opinion. I would say that goes even further when it’s a…

Didn’t he dare the media to follow him around, saying they wouldn’t find anything scandalous, then got caught with his mistress on a boat named “Monkey Business”?

No, that’s a collaboration between two bands.

The early 60s are often conflated with the 50s. It has been said that “the sixties” didn’t really begin until JFK’s assassination.

It’s the guy from “Life With Louie”.

Good point with Hamilton, since him & Catherine the Great were both relative reactionaries.

I blame Anthrax’s “I’m the Man” for that.

As someone mixed on PTA, I was not expecting to enjoy Phantom Thread nearly as much as I did. I was expecting something self-serious like There Will Be Blood and didn’t realize how funny it would be.

Are you referring to the film or tv adaptation of A Teacher?

The world was right to give this the thumbs-down. Being responsible for Garden State and its ilk just makes it all the worse.

Shiny Entertainment put out a different game I actually bought named “Sacrifice”. There were various feuding gods you could pick to serve across various missions, and one of them was the god of Earth. He was a worm named James.

I’m looking up their wikipedia pages, and it doesn’t seem like they lived in the same state in the 50s, although they both would have been in the northeast.

This is the track I was thinking of:

Garcia lost part of just one finger, fingers plural would be Tony Iommi.

Barsanti’s contempt is actually directed toward his readers, not any specific subject matter.