Anna and the Apocalypse is pulling holiday double-duty. It’s a zombie survival musical set in the days before a school’s Christmas break. Insanely ambitious genre-bash, especially for the shoestring budget it was produced on, but a very fun way to kill 90 minutes.
Scrooged is undeniably more a Christmas movie than a Halloween movie, but it’s got some great spooky vibes. Especially with their portrayal of the Ghost of Christmas Future.
In a similar vein, my first thought was “did they control for economic factors?” Lower-income families are less likely to have adequate healthcare, less likely to enroll a child in pre-school or daycare, less likely to see an educator intervene if the child is missing milestones.
Especially in the US, there’s a history of conflating economic factors for genetic factors because of who has historically held wealth. Turns out playing golf doesn’t make you live longer, it’s just that if you can afford to play golf, you can probably afford healthcare and more nutritious foods.
Absolutely this. Ever since Nolan, we’ve been getting grimmer, darker, more “realistic” reboots of the character as directors try to figure out what Batman would look like in the real world. Burton and Schumacher asked the much funner question of, “What kind of crazy nonsense world worships a vigilante in a furry suit?”
Your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words, on labels: “gay”, “homosexual”, “lesbian.” You think they tell you who a person sleeps with, but they don’t tell you that. Like all labels, they refer to one thing and one thing only: Where does a person so identified fit in the food chain? In the pecking order. Not ideology or sexual taste, but something much simpler: clout. Who owes me favors. Not who I fuck or who fucks me, but who will pick up the phone when I call. To someone who doesn’t understand this, homosexual is what I am because I sleep with men, but this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who, in 15 years of trying, can’t get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council. They are men who know nobody, and who nobody knows. Now, Henry, does that sound like me?
When I was in high school, the girls running team had shirts that said, “Fast girls have good times!”
Absolutely this. The American Cancer Association advises it is best not to drink alcohol. Alcohol use accounts for 5% of all cancers in the US.
So it’s a known carcinogen that also impairs judgements and motor functions, causes brain damage, and is habit forming. Just because it’s been socialized to be acceptable doesn’t mean it’s not deadly.
Neither of them should’ve been punished? He was her boss, and decades older than her. He should’ve kept his pants zipped up.
Every day, the future looks a little bit darker. But the past… even the grimy parts of it… keep on getting brighter.
I’m wondering why I even need a smartphone at this point. I’m tempted to go back to a flip phone.
One of my favorite moments in comics comes from the 1970 Green Lantern / Green Arrow run. Green Arrow rescues a kid from getting run over by a train, and rather than celebrate the victory, he laments that the city didn’t have a park where this kid could play safely. He considers running for mayor, and the rest of the Justice League talk him out of it.
As a kid, it was the first time I saw a comic look at the reader and say, “Yeah, these capes really are just fantasy. If you want the world to be better, you can’t leave it to other people.”
When I found out about the 501st Legion, I was absolutely baffled. George Lucas dressed the bad guys to look like Nazis, and now fans were dressing up as the bad guys because they love the movies so much? What the fuck is wrong with these people?
Then Captain America came out and people started dressing as Hydra agents, and I was like, “Oh, they’re just straight-up okay with Nazis. Got it.”
Hollow Knight was just so much well-curated content for the price. I got it on sale for $7.50, and after I played through it, I had to go buy it again at the full $15 because I felt like I’d ripped Team Cherry off.
Small indie film? Dear Zachary is a documentary produced on a shoestring budget, and it is an absolutely devastating piece of art. Just thinking about the film puts a lump in my throat.
Punch Drunk Love is a masterpiece. Simultaneously one of the funniest and most heartbreaking films I’ve ever seen in my life.
Dr. King’s policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.
Stokely Carmichael, one of SNCC’s first freedom riders
The Juggernaut video was 2005, and the Fenslerfilms clips were around 2003. So neither of those are '90s