I am, perhaps unjustifiably, frustrated at the internet's meme-ification of Bee Movie, and the way people pretend to like it more than they do. It's perhaps the best example of the one of the most irritating aspects of meme culture, which is people finding something funny specifically BECAUSE it's a meme, when they…

I'm also going to go out on a limb and say that college-educated progressives need to learn how to care about poor white people. We need to be as uncomfortable with someone saying "blue-collar voters are fucking idiots" as we are with people saying "black people are fucking idiots."

Analysis is easy! Solutions are hard!

I think it's a tricky thing with a lot of factors. The end result IS horrifically racist outcomes, but it is possible to understand how it happens:

If everything's racist, then nothing's racist! Except talking about racism.

A Kanye biopic that truly does justice to Kanye could be incredible—it could be Boogie Nights level in its fusion of ridiculous comedy, brutal drama, and a fascinating "how-the-sausage-gets-made" of artistic industry.

Here's what comes to mind immediately:
- Under Pressure by Queen feat. David Bowie
- Chuck Jones animated short How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- The movie Arrival, out in theaters this weekend

I wish I could believe that! The fact that an obvious buffoon with no organizational infrastructure, self-awareness, strategic thinking, or even apparent effort was able to accomplish this suggests that a marginally-more-intelligent-and-organized version of Trump could create a dangerously powerful movement very, very…

I will probably cry literal, actual tears of relief if Trump loses, and the difference between "Trump-being-President" and "Trump-not-being-President" cannot be understated, but the sad truth is, the mere fact that he has gotten this far and this close means that America has already lost, and this sh*t will not…

At what point do we as a society start saying "No" to arbitrary pop culture mashups?

Is that true? Does Sam Wang have a significantly better track record than Nate Silver? Is 538's predictive model actually oversensitive? I hope you are right because I am FREAKING THE F*** OUT.

For a sample that is 82% male, I think this poll might actually be significantly more favorable to *Clinton* than to Trump, relative to the demographics of this country.

As someone who is generally in favor of genderbending and racebending popular characters, the notion of a female James Bond seems kind of pointless. His traditional chauvinistic masculinity is as fundamental to the character as Wonder Woman being a woman or Black Panther being black. If you strip that away from him,…

Alternatively, Jane Bond in COCKTOPUS.

I don't really care about Glamour Magazine or their Woman of the Year award, but I have to imagine their readership does. Their presumably majority female readership. And they sincerely decided Bono was more deserving of this honor than ANY WOMAN IN THE WORLD? Come the f*** on. Don't insult your readership.

We all know where this is really going—a trilogy of direct-to-video sequels co-starring Scott Adkins, all of which will inexplicably superior to the original.

At the risk of expressing a deeply unpopular opinion, Carpenter's The Thing.

All four actresses are far funnier than what showed on screen. They just had nothing to do work with. Peter, Ray, and Egon were all really strongly developed characters. There was a really clear sense of history, a sense that all of these guys lived and breathed and had relationships with each other before the first…

Ghostbusters '16 was close enough to good to make me viscerally angry it wasn't better.

Gaga actually reminds me a lot of Eddie Van Halen, in that she continuously radically misunderstands where her talents are. When applying his technical brilliance to David Lee Roth's tough-and-nasty party rock, he couldn't be matched by anyone in the genre. But he became fixated on this idea of being a "real artist,"…