In all fairness, getting an amphibian to go up and down on a log is the main reason a lot of people play Mass Effect.

That'd be cool, but my pick for noirish 80s auteur and neglected superhero is and always will be Michael Mann doing the Question. The paranoia, the urbanism, the isolation, the samurai elements— god, I want no pipe dream of a superhero movie more.

Why are you all trying so hard to find cool music your kids will like when a wise man already solved the puzzle? Wu-Tang is for the children. Problem solved.

Counterpoint: I probably would have been way less of a strange and unlovable kid in middle school if my parents had pushed a wider range of music on me and encouraged my listening habits to expand outside of exclusively Weird Al and 70's prog. I could have used someone vaguely cool to save me from being the only…

You know, you can see his dong if you want. It's in the movie with his best performance. It's great! He gets covered in lard and does horrible things.

The guy in the Revenant who acted.

He boxed a dog in Bronson, but he was only mildly adorable in that film.

You know, for as many other Plinkett lines were made into memes, I wish "It's the best, and darkest, of the three!" was in more common usage. It's such a great, glib dismissal of the argument that gritty=good.

"This thing reads like stereo instructions!"
—Jeffrey Jones, reading a guide on how to access a TOR network.

It was never always done that way— criticism has been about debating the politics and morality of art since the dawn of time. The first work of criticism in history was Aristotle's Poetics, which explicitly advanced its author's philosophy and argued that art had a moral responsibility to the audience.

Demanding that criticism be unbiased is absurd— all critics have preferences and tastes, and an unbiased review is just a description with a letter grade attached. You can't ask critics to not have opinions. That's their job. You want Katie Rife (because I know that's who you're talking about) to leave her feminism…

Even barring Arrival, which I loved, Under the Skin was one of the best films of the decade and a serious entry into the sci-fi canon, and that was 2014.

Given his powerful essay about grappling with self-destruction and addiction, I'd really like to see an end to the "Sean is a drunk" jokes.

It says a lot that I've seen both enthusiastic and negative reviews that use the metaphor that Civil War is like a being a kid and making your action figures fight. Whether that's a goal or a failure seems to depend solely on the audience.

I dig the way they pillage the games for ideas and inspiration rather than trying to adapt Mikami and Kamiya's ludicrously convoluted and weird plots directly. It's cool that Anderson has an eye for what really ticks in the series without being beholden to the mythology.

I should point out, since I guess it wasn't clear, that "I can't stand Jews" was an actual thing Steve Bannon said, not just a nickname I made up. Not a lot of nuance there.

I hope you enjoy it— I think it's his best, although part of that comes from the fact that it's more immediate and has a stronger connection to my loved experience and the culture I'm a part of than most of his other works.

We don't need to "ask" whether stop and frisk is racist. The courts settled it. It is. It is de facto, legally-defined racism, and the president-elect supports it, and people voted for him knowing that.

If almost everyone considers racism to be an evil, they wouldn't have voted for a campaign run by Steve fucking Bannon. You're saying "is the KKK racist" is a stupid question, but given that you just argued that someone can be excused for not realizing stop-and-frisk, which was ruled by the courts to be racist, is, in…

What does this even mean? You're saying that people aren't racist because they don't consider themselves to be racist, even though they believe and support ideas and policies that are racist.