A thoroughly offensive film, and for those with garden-variety sensibilities I don't recommend watching it (not even for judgment on whether it's a "good" bad film - it isn't). Which brings my mind around to a recent happening. My review of "The Butler", having graced the site for months, was removed without discussion or warning by a shadowy person with the moniker "A moderator", apparently for suggesting that Oprah has been known to go up and down in her weight…

Holy hell this is bad. It's like a moron schooled an imbecile in "space stuff" (wormholes! 5 dimensions! um yeh, space stuff!), making sure to add Hollywood-engendered emotional bullet points, and with a ridiculous "Earth (ie, small-town America) can only grow corn and there's lots of dust" backstory thrown in for good measure. The music consists of two notes played over and over by a delinquent hamster. The ending is trash, varying between nonsense and sentimentality - but really this…