As someone who is half-scot and, volumetrically, half-scotch, I can confirm that you're not wrong.

Milo just got 12 million dollars to found his own media company dedicated to harassing liberals and feminists. He got that investment because he is famous due to his media presence.

I would kill for a Le Carre Bond, if only to see a depressed Bond who took no joy in his work and watched the British Empire shrivel into irrelevance.

Yeah, the mainstream media consistently treats conservative positions as being valid and worthy of consideration, even when those positions have no basis in fact (global warming denialism, Clinton conspiracy theories, Supreme Court obstruction, etc.) The mainstream media may not be actively pulling for conservative…

Yeah, but Adams also argues that mass shootings happen because women won't put out and drive men to a homicidal rage. The dude deserves no credence or respect from anyone.

I love it! One of my favorite issues is that one with V for Vendetta's Dave Lloyd doing the art and a story about how the U.K. shouldn't allow American nukes to be stationed there.

I know that a lot of the other arcs are very well-revered, but I will always think of Hellblazer as I first experienced it as a teenager: grody, muddy art of horrible things happening. It's such an ugly and grimy comic that it's never felt right when I've read issues with polished art.

That was part of it. Home video was a big sticking point— the previous contracts had all been written in the mid-80's, so the writers were still being paid as though their shows were only being reprinted on VHS tapes for a niche market. In the interim, home video sales outpaced box office sales, and the writers wanted…

He's getting SAG pension and residuals which will make him condemning another Hollywood labor group all the more disgusting and scabby.

Yeah, but what's the strike gonna do?

Damn those greedy writers, forcing the studios to kill a TV show so that they could try and bargain for fairer payment for their work.

The Black Lodge, especially in the finale, is one of the creepiest, most uncomfortable horror locations ever. And it's one room, a hallway, and about a hundred bucks in set dressing. That's one of the best arguments out there for Lynch's skill as a director.

Learning that he apparently started with the premise of "how could a person commit genocide but be completely guiltless" and worked backward to build a story that justified it killed a lot of that book for me.

He's so good in Punch Drunk Love that it makes everything else he's in even worse. A couple friends and I were watching The Cobbler out of morbid curiosity, and I was the most furious because I'd seen Punch-Drunk and knew that he could have made that performance work if he gave half a shit.

I think most people have a page limit on Murakami. He goes over the same themes and obsessions so many times that everyone I know loved the first couple things they read and then tapped out.

And he was in An American Carol and managed to be the most insufferable Hollywood Republican in that movie. And James Woods is in that movie!

Red Dragon was Ratner riffing on two vastly more talented directors, which helped. A huge amount of that movie is built around taking the way Mann shot and paced certain scenes in Manhunter and overlaying it with Demme's underlit gothicism from Silence. It's still decent, but Mann doesn't bring anything to the table…

Persona 5, still.

I think that was implied by the phrase "New Simpsons"

That kind of work is actually my single favorite thing Tolkien ever did. I'm not an LOTR fan, but Beowulf is one of my favorite works of literature (and I'll argue that Heaney's translation is one of the finest works in the English language), and Tolkien's scholarship and tireless advocacy did a huge amount to…