Lancelot Links Makes America Great Again

Thursday April 07, 2016

Lancelot Links Makes America Great Again

Author Gabriel Sherman, who is used to loud voices, takes us inside the Trump campaign, which is small, inexperienced, douchey and massively successful. That Wall of Shame in his headquarters? There should be a lot more people on it.�
The call for “Open Carry” at the GOP Convention? That actually originated from gun-control advocates�pushing the Republican policy to its logical (read: illogical) conclusion. Adam Gopnik applauds and cries “Encore!”
A quick history of the Panama Papers, the 11.5-million-file leak from Mossack Fonseca, the fourth-biggest biggest offshore law firm, via�The Guardian, that exposes the private financial activities of the rich and powerful. A lot of the trails are covered up, but many lead to specific people like Vladimir Putin. Not to mention�Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson. More, please. MF (nice acronym) is only fourth-biggest, after all.�
Paul Krugman points out that Obama's approval ratings are rising, and he feels it's because 1) the GOP is showing us what shitty leaders look like, and 2) his policies have been successful.
Benedict Cumberbatch was filming “Dr. Strange” in New York, so what did he do? Stopped by a comic book store for research. Oh, and he also looks perfect in the role.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the man who turned a biography of one of the founding fathers into the biggest Broadway musical of the century, is asked by The New York Times what he reads. Turns out he reads a lot. He's reading like he's running out of time.�
If you've been paying attention, you can't help but notice that Netflix has fewer and fewer movies in its catalogue. Apparently this is a feature not a bug. It's also why I'm watching more on Amazon Prime�not to mention returning to Scarecrow Video to get the movies that nobody has.�
Indiewire has a new critic. Here's Jeff Wells' slow, backhanded clap. Agree with Wells on every one of these points.�
Omer Mozzafer picks his favorite Roger Ebert review: “Milk Money” from 1994. I didn't even know this thing existed. Anyway, it's a good review.
Vox gives us 19 Nonsensical, Idiotic Things in the “Batman v Superman” movie. What's interesting is how many of them boil down to: This character has no motivation for what they're doing, and that's why we're bored.
In the New Yorker,�Ryan Lizza really breaks down the Hillary Clinton/Bernie Sanders divide better than almost anyone.