I enjoy Vice's news docs - I feel like there's a reasonable amount of earnestness behind *why* they're choosing to cover what they are, they cover topics that mainstream news either barely pays attention to or only pays lip-service to, they're not afraid to cover topics that are thoroughly depressing and can't be spun…

Uggg. the moment at Nick's funeral where Spallone is smiling at some other politician and being his slimy self made me want to punch Alfred Molina in the face, even though he could be a genuinely wonderful person, and then dig up and piss on the corpse of the actual Hank Spallone.

I kind of took the title to be more along the lines of "Show me one person here who actually did something heroic".

Yeah, there was something about the combination of the desperation in his voice, and the fact that the cry for his brother was too quiet to be heard that just about broke me. I was kind of amazed by Oscar Isaac's performance in that moment, and how completely he made such a small thing communicate Nick's emotional and…

Oscar Isaac was amazing as Nick. It was mentioned in the review, but that moment where he tries to call out for his brother and the words barely escape is one of the most devastating and heartbreaking moments of acting I've seen in a long time.

The musical change at the end of the episode caught me by surprise. The song in the aftermath of the fight sounded like it could be in the opening credits of a modern Bond film.
If Fuller was going to change the musical texture of the show so dramatically at the end, he should have went with using Monster Mash during…

It was like watching an exceptionally languid, pretentious, and pompous rap battle.

Yeah, that would be my sticking point with him being cast as well, so I don't disagree.
A few years back when there were rumblings of an adaptation being considered I know some of the fan casting leaned towards John Goodman as a choice for Judge Holden. He could do a good job, but I feel like he'd need to drop some…

I could go for a movie or mini-series about the Sheep Wars.

Based on D'Onofrio's performance in Daredevil, and his current physique, I think he could make a fantastic Judge Holden.

I'd like to see a studio grow some balls/ovaries and be willing to go gritty enough to do a worthwhile adaptation of Blood Meridian.

And "fanny" is also offensive. Is it? I don't even know. I do know that it means "cunt". Unless you're in the UK, in which case it doesn't. I mean, "fanny" does, but "cunt" doesn't.

My favorite is that 'video nasties' is a term that they use in seriousness during earnestly concerned discussions.
It sounds both prim and proper, and also like the name of a low budget porn series.

I'm not American, but 'name a city in England other than London' and my mind always immediately goes to Wolverhampton.

Yeah, but Americans would be the first to tell you that they're #1 at being terrible at geography. USA! USA! USA!

I work as a freelance commercial artist, and often wish my bank account could be mistaken for the bank account of someone who wasn't an 'artist'.
So…. saying 'ohhhh, you're an *artist*?' kind of sounds to me like "ohhhh, so you're *poor*?"

Marvel and DC output of the 70's is a poor reflection of what comics are as a medium.
Maus is as intimate a portrait of a holocaust survivor as you'd find in any long-form prose biography or autobiography.
Charles Burns' Black Hole is an exceptionally well crafted examination of both the need for acceptance, and…

I took a course that used Japanese Cinema as a framework to discuss issues of culture, gender, patriarchy - exactly what people would picture a stereotypical art-school course being - and one of the films we watched was "In the Realm of the Senses".

How does a person effectively practice law if there's a whole section that chose to avoid because it brought up past personal trauma, or was distasteful?

Actually, at a certain point, being insulated from any and all reminders past traumas does more harm than good.
If someone is a victim of violence, insulating them from anything that may 'trigger' memories will only reinforce and magnify anxiety.
Exposure therapy is often the best way to deal with it.
If they were…