Funny. When I strip the article of its idiotic political bent and just read what the movie is about, and watch the trailer, I kinda want to see this film now. Who knows, it really might be racist, or it could just be in good fun (just like the trailer shows one of the characters dressing like a woman for what I…

>>Phyllis Dietrichson, the femme fatale to end all femme fatales, seduces a detective and gets him to help her bump off her husband<<

>>However, Kudrow does ignore that in the 236 episodes of Friends, the creators didn’t think to hire a few more people who could write stories about the experiences of being a person of color.<<

“Of course, first they’ve got to finish off Saul, which returns for the final half of its final season on April 18.”

The Daily Show, not Trump Derangement Syndrome (presumably). 

You can’t complain about being misinterpreted (in your view) if you don’t express yourself properly. “Inarguable” is not general and allowing for exceptions. “The best” is not general and allowing for exceptions. Neither are “actual reality”, “any actor of a particular ethnicity” or (though I suppose that one actually…

Your original statement was (and following ones were) absolutist, and that is what you’ve been criticized for here (be precise in your language if you want to argue a precise point). It’s nice to see that you seem to have come around to the position that not everything is (so to speak) black and white.

What determines one’s “ethnicity” in this context? You’ve already altered and qualified your original claim with “a Jamaican actor - who grew up in Jamaica”. The only more or less objective way to define “Jamaican” is as a nationality (you have the passport or you don’t, as recognized by the country of Jamaica),…

That’s very much not “inarguable” if you mean that any black actor will give a better performance than the best white or Asian actor. If, say, Carlton Banks was a voice actor (or, you know, a black actor from Britain or Nigeria), he could very well be a worse choice to play an animated character from a majority-black,…

I had not heard of this movie before and clicked wondering how the reviewer would square “grace, humor, and an ode to the female body in a familiar indie premise” with the horror tone of the Saint Maud trailers (which is what I thought it referred to). Apparently this is the Armageddon to Saint Maud’s Deep Impact (at…

Be sure to get your scoffing at physical media in now. You won’t laugh in a few years when certain important movies and shows will not be available at all anymore because their streaming home will have gone bust and/or the rights are tied up in limbo. I’d wager that kind of thing will happen more often and earlier…

Not being familiar with that kind of music all that much, I initially thought upon seeing the header image that it was a movie about Robert Durst (he of bathroom confession fame), with Travolta doing a Fred Armisen impression.

You can buy games on gog.com DRM-free, download them immediately and do what you want with it, with no additional phone-home mechanism in place. It’s almost like owning the original floppies/CD.

-- The AV Club

Their intention, probably not. But it is apt: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/rush-to-finish-istanbul-airport-leads-to-deaths-and-protests-1.3651616 

I’ve heard it’s called the “mowing” game, whatever that is supposed to mean. A few years ago, it was knockouts, now it’s black people attacking innocent white greenery. Where, oh where will it end?

Yeah, I stumbled over that line as well. Corporal punishment ist not okay and it is far too widespread in the United States still to let this go unchallenged (even if the lady has a point with the rest of her statements, and even if the only reason her neighbors are calling the police is because it’s a black lady…

While I get your point, if you just read (Homer’s) Iliad, you wouldn’t actually learn about the Trojan Horse. It’s not part of that story.

Academic rigour is important to me, and I was curious about the precise circumstances. And I did write another paragraph, you know. A teacher can be racist and wrong about a person without being wrong about a specific assignment.

Good article, but one thing I’m wondering about: