O’Connor spoke the truth to power when the world wasn’t ready to hear it. — To say what you feel is to dig your own grave. — Sinead O’Connor Louie C.K., Jason Aldean, J.K. Rowling and Johnny Depp complain about being ‘cancelled’, but they’re whiny crybabies who don’t like it when they’re called out for the stupid hateful things they did. But I know what…

The film is a big pink Trojan Horse with a subversive message inside. — Some snobbish critics are ridiculing Barbie for making more money than Oppenheimer its opening weekend, thereby implying that Nolan’s film is a Wagyu steak to be savored while Gerwig’s movie is the cinematic equivalent of a Big Mac. Uh, false equivalence much? Barbie is playing on more screens and it’s…

Is Scorsese’s latest movie an artifact of an era in Hollywood that doesn’t exist anymore? — It’s going to be very interesting to see how Killers of the Flower Moon does financially. Martin Scorsese has been one of the loudest voices of the Old School film directors in criticizing superhero movies. Scorsese doesn’t like them because he strongly believes they’re squeezing movies for adults out of…

Pride Goeth Before An Implosion. — As more information comes leaking out about the Titanic sub tragedy, the worse it gets: A passenger on OceanGate’s sub questioned what would happen if they got lost since they were bolted inside. CEO Stockton Rush replied, ‘You’re dead anyway.’ In some respects, Rush’s arrogance is not that surprising. Our…

Loyalty to the GOP is thicker than blood — Every family has a designated weirdo, and in my family, that was me. But no matter how much of a knucklehead I was during my difficult teenage years, my family always supported me even though I knew they didn’t always understand where I was coming from. They always had my…

The only good thing you can say about Elmo’s disastrous mismanagement of Twitter is at least he isn’t killing people. After hitting another iceberg, I’m sure CEO Linda Vaccarino is wondering why in hell she signed up to be the captain of Elmo’s sinking ship: Elon Musk’s Twitter has put…

The Ukrainians aren’t Russian’s biggest problem anymore — Damned if I know why Putin thought having an army of predatory mercenaries in your back yard was a good idea. Maybe it happened when he was getting hammered on vodka and watching The Dirty Dozen on TV. Anyway, it appears the vultures have come home to roost: Russian President…

Will James Gunn, the new Godfather of the DCU, be able to stop the bleeding? — James Gunn is finding out that building a successful superhero movie franchise ain’t as easy as Kevin Feige made it look. It’s not great when the most noteworthy moment moviegoers remember from The Flash is the cringe-inducing “Baby in a Microwave” scene. When all is said and done, The Flash…

The Supreme Court is owned by billionaires — Clarence Thomas isn’t the only greedy bastard on the Supreme Court it seems. “In early July 2008, Samuel Alito stood on a riverbank in a remote corner of Alaska. The Supreme Court justice was on vacation at a luxury fishing lodge that charged more than $1,000 a day, and after…