“If you’re an A.V. Club reader, you probably share our general cynicism for promotional nonsense.”

This directly conflicts with the girl in question’s actual statements regarding the kiss:

The fatsuit thing was straight-up offensive, full stop. Because fat girls are so fucking funny, amirite?

I’m all for letting people enjoy being pandered to by a shitty book thats plot is basically nothing but plot culture references and a protagonist that gets the love interest by cyberstalking and harassing her despite her repeated rejections until she gives up. The fact that you’re at best indifferent to these parts of…

Shhh.

This really should have been given to Paul Verhoeven instead of Spielberg.

Yes, but with an important distinction. A true music video is a commercial for itself. The one here is selling another product, and I dislike being tricked into watching a commercial. Just say “Hey, here’s an awesome commercial for apple.”

Right?

A puff piece for an ad.

I really wish this headline had emphasized that this was a commercial. But then again, the new AVClub is all about clickbait.

This was a great performance.

On the list of things that I don’t understand, Bringing Up Baby being a huge flop that threatened to derail Katharine Hepburn’s career & her never doing another screwball comedy is pretty high up there. What a great movie. She even had great chemistry with the leopard

I actually didn’t find this twist shocking at all. Telegraphed pretty hard since the start of the ep, and Dela’s ennui has been emphasized since last ep.

I’m rewatching S3 of Drag Race. The show has definitely become more “entertaining” (read that as more easily digestible and palatable to a wider audience), but it’s also lost the arts and craftiness part of drag. RPDR went from being a competition to just a vehicle for future WoW YouTube shows. Queens went from…

I’m still not on the Kennedy train (just as I was never on the Roxxxy train) and I will err on the side of niceness and assume that Bendela really just wanted to prove something to herself rather than win the crown.

Just a reminder that Winston Churchill was actually quite a bad guy who’s record includes completely ballsing up the Gallipoli campaign, orchestrating the Black and Tans who led a reign of terror in Ireland, Ordering Troops to break up Strikes and being responsible for the Bengal Famine where millions of Indians died.…

He’s so rich he’s literally asking for ideas on how to spend his money, while his employees can’t survive without government aid. This is what happens when you let the free market determine what people are worth.

I mean, let’s maybe think issues of being black making a movie about black gay men factor into this and combine to make it pretty easy for him to question how legitimate the Oscars took him and how unfair it is that everyone else who won got to have their moment when he only got a few confused seconds before the…

Ivy Leagues have no interest whatsoever in providing opportunities, just bringing in whichever students can pay their inflated tuition. Princeton makes half billion dollars a year in profit, only has handful of need-based scholarships, and not pays taxes because they provide “public good”! (Malcolm Gladwell did…

The Variety article is from June 2017.

The AV Club even reported on it back then: https://news.avclub.com/michael-b-jordan-and-ryan-coogler-are-teaming-up-for-t-1798262704

But good to know the AV Club is just grabbing whatever’s on the front page of r/movies a couple days ago.

Swap “risk-taking” with “completely and utterly misguided” and you got a point there!