Yeah, I thought the whining over the Disqus transition was overboard, but man, this new system has really made me not want to engage much anymore with the AV Club, and that makes me sad.

It’s hilarious that after the recent whining about how Rotten Tomatoes is ruining their business, studio suits are now remarking on the vast divide between Mother!’s Tomatometer and CinemaScores. We go from them calling reviewers all-important to box office to irrelevant in a single breath.

I have the opposite feeling on speeches vs. the scripted bits, in general (I’m not riveted by hearing celebrities thank their parents, spouses, agents, producers, cast members, etc...), but Brown was a uniquely compelling speaker.

If they were going to be strict from start to finish that “this is how much time you…

I don’t think most people really want to be challenged by television, and that’s fine. If your free time is very limited taking on a show like The Americans isn’t going to happen. If you just watch TV to relax a little in the hour you have free after work and other obligations you’re not going to pick up a downer like…

Upon causing a famine in India: “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.” —Winston Churchill

As much as I love Scarlett J. as Natasha, I realized today that if it had been Jennifer Lawrence from the beginning.... probably would have been okay with me.

Because that kind of personality goes with the ambition necessary to make it big outside of Canada. Most of the Canadian musicians who are known there and to us border children are cool and chill.

“The Beaver,” huh? I’m already questioning the utility of this list.

Marilyn Manson: “Sure, Justin, I’ll come to one of your shows.” Little does he know that years from now I will reap my vengeance when I die having never gone to one of his shows.

I’m skeptical that they can write one narratively plausible ending, let alone multiple.

It’s like a nautilus shell and you want to press your ear against it and hear the ocean.

Fewer tits yeah, but there was golden ratio butt.

He was kept on staff under the table with basically no rest period whatsoever, and the leadership told other women to please not go public with their stories about him.

Seriously, how hard it is to not grope women?

By disappeared, you mean “stopped coming into the office, but stayed on the email chains, and then, as it turned out, was working the whole time that everyone thought he was gone”.

So unemployment causes people to sexually assault women now? Fuck that. The responsibility for him to not assault women isn’t on us, it’s on him. He can get himself some help or he can go to fucking jail, but it’s not our responsibility to deal with the consequences of his actions. And gee, why wouldn’t people not…

I agree with you, but interestingly he didn’t say it was true per se, he said he didn’t remember it happening but he was awful sorry and then he just kinda disappeared.

I’m always baffled when I encounter people who act like sexual assault is the equivalent of running over a stop sign or something. Faraci’s victims are going to have to live with the effects of what he did to them for the rest of their lives. He got caught and we’re supposed to give him credit for not lying on top of…

I think if I was a woman and had to have some dopey jackass poke his head up with the dumbest fucking “actually” response to nearly everything that was said on this subject I would be in jail for multiple murders at this point.

A curious review but one that makes total sense based on McDonagh’s previous work. Maybe this is just my cynicism showing, but that bit about showing empathy towards all the characters reads like it’d wind up being a situation of false equivalencies and the in-vogue forced moral grayness that tends to end up being a…