U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch held a press conference Monday to officially file suit against he state of North Carolina, Gov. Pat McCrory, and more, over HB 2 (which requires transgender people to use the bathroom facilities that match the gender on their birth certificates). The language used was a revolution unto itself. “But no…
“We never get to see Kerry Washington as a brilliant inventor who gets a little too close to her android, Liam Hemsworth. And that’s a problem. It’s a problem because in real life we’re continuously seeing a proliferation of female robots that are designed to be aides. There are, of course, male robots: With broad…
“… Another media outlet offered the even more lurid headline “Sex Slaves in Compton.” But press beyond the headline, and you’ll see that the “human traffickers” arrested were actually women selling sex themselves, along with men attempting to buy sex from an undercover police officer. Like most “human trafficking operations” these days, this was a…
Mademoiselle by Park Chan-wook comes out on October 5. It’s being called The Handmaiden in domestic press, and it’s based on the book The Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. There’s a great interview about the film with Chan-wook here in Variety. It’s premiering at Cannes, and it really makes me wish I can someday go to…
Patrick Stewart plays TNG Fuck, Marry, Kill: “The kill would have to be Riker because he’s big and scary and very dominating,” says Stewart of his on-screen comrade. “For a wife I would choose Deanna, but just as a kind of one-night stand…I would choose Data because, well think about it. There was an episode…