Just today, Young Turks founder and head anchor Cenk Uygur was called out for a series of misogynistic blog posts he wrote in the early 2000s. These posts included complaints about not getting laid enough (“It seems like there is a sea of tits here, and I am drinking in tiny ...read more
The Banter Long Read: For the last several days, I've been debating myself about the new Star Wars movie. Frankly, I'm happy to be thinking about a somewhat controversial subject which, in this case, doesn't involve nuclear war with North Korea, or a despotic, delusional ...read more
Greg Gianforte is hard to look at. And he’s hard to listen to. He rambles on about how he doesn’t believe people have a right to retire because Noah of the Bible built an ark at age 500. He’s against LGBT rights, reproductive rights, and even the pitifully low federal minimum ...read more
It’s always risky to make the first movie about a recent cultural event. The temptation to cash in on a living piece of the zeitgeist is obvious, but the results are almost never good. Films like World Trade Center, Ashton Kutcher’s Jobs, and the surreally shitty W all stand in ...read more
Generally speaking, anyone involved with the advertising industry should be hung drawn and quartered. But occasionally, creative types in the ad world absolutely nail it. Case in point: whoever is behind summer blockbuster "Jurassic World's" marketing campaign at Universal ...read more
ThoughtCatalog has done a brilliant top 40 list of the best Roger Ebert movie review take downs. Here are (in my opinion) the best 10: 1. Atlas Shrugged (Part 1) (2011): “And now I am faced with this movie, the most anticlimactic non-event since Geraldo Rivera broke into Al ...read more
Not only was Roger Ebert a marvelous film critic, he was an astute observer of history current events. He laced his reviews with technical nous and an understanding of political and cultural context, engaging his readers intellect as well as their senses. Here are a selection ...read more
