The old goat is running out of places to not be extradited from. Zbigniew Ziobro, who also became Poland’s chief prosecutor after the country’s new, staunchly conservative government merged the two posts, argues that it was the director’s celebrity status in Poland, where he grew up, that had prevented him from being extradited in the past.… Read More The Roman Polanski Two-Step
Game of Thrones made its mark upon the public consciousness with its mix of fantasy and intrigue but also with its premium-channel willingess to “go there” with sex and violence. Thematically, this has been shown in numerous instances of the Death of the Hero. Not only were Robert Baratheon and Eddard Stark shown to be… Read More Resurrection and Identity in Game of Thrones I – The Man of Ice and Fire
Who is David Jaffe? A director of the God of War video game series (The director? Co-Director? Wait, I don’t care). And apparently the experience of making a series based on a doomed Spartan warrior bloodily defying the Gods has made him a grumpy feminist who hates prom (don’t they all?) Now, the first tweet… Read More When Did the Left Lose its Goddamn Mind? or, David Jaffe is a Glorious Winged Twit
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The inestimable John McWhorter: It’s been a shoe that had yet to drop. The praise for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical phenomenon has been resoundingly unanimous. There are already plans for a touring production, one in London plus a sit-down production in San Francisco. Miranda has performed for the president. The cast album has won a Grammy,… Read More There are Never Enough Witches for the Witch-Hunters: Hamilton and Race-Flailing
You’ll read these for the reason they are making their way ’round the internets: bad reviews are themselves a form of entertainment, and a necessary corrective to the fear that we are drowning in the swill that pop culture produces. It is thus both pleasing and useful to announce to the heavens that The Love Guru… Read More Roger Ebert’s Hilariously Vicious Bad Reviews, and How to Survive Them
No matter how much you do, there’s a market that doesn’t. Good Article at the Daily Beast about why hating on the insipdidly-wholesome Netflix-reboot of the insipidly wholesome sitcom is probably more obnoxious than the show itself could possibly be: Was Fuller House ever going to come back with sudden comic intelligence? Razor sharp dialogue?… Read More Hating Fuller House is Like Hating Anchovies
I don’t know who came up with this idea, or why she agreed to it, or why I find it so soothing. But it’s making the rounds so here you go…
Thus demonstrating that it is not possible to reach a ne plus ultra of nerdiness. (h/t Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit) Gondor’s own laws and rulers even recognized how ridiculous Aragorn’s claim was. Arvedui, the last king of Arnor before he drowned in a shipwreck, once claimed the throne of Gondor, but the Council of Gondor rightly… Read More Monarchial Legitimist Assails the Throne of Gondor
As my wife belongs to SAG, we get SAG screeners. One of them is the new Bryan Cranston movie Trumbo, a biopic of one of the Hollywood Ten. I’ve decided that I’m not watching it. Yes, that’s right, I’m judging a movie before I’ve seen it, phillistine that I am. Here is why: How many Blacklist pietas Does… Read More Trumbo Should Not Be Seen By Anyone
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