Had to scroll through the comments just to see if someone mentioned this - the headline brought back my memory of watching Breaking Bad on demand right around the time this debuted and seeing ~500 ads for it, which of course made me despise it (except for being impressed as to how well the girl from Some Kind of…

That was the one movie I was hoping to read his take on. Even if there were time constraints (but how busy could this guy really be) I think it's a bad sign for this site if they can't get more than seven movies out of this schlub.

Take a step back though and look at the whole scene - the eagerness over trailers and movie posters (there are often articles on this site regarding some new photos or clips for an upcoming comic book movie, i.e., people are drooling to get a look at commercials), the endless rehashing and dissecting of 120 minutes of…

I saw a preview for this recently and was also flabbergasted that, of all the many victims of the Bush era, they chose to make a martyr film about the (very-well compensated) people whose incompetence helped get him re-elected. Which is not to say that a story should not be told because there are better ones out…

Re motivation, you are comparing apples to oranges here. People adopt trendy diets because they believe it is in their own interest to do so - it will lead them to lose weight, not get cancer, 'function' better, &c. There is no ethical component to the decision to avoid gluten. People care about what they eat because…

I agree that biographies should let us in on all aspects of a person's life instead of presenting only the good - relative to the ambitions of the work, I mean clearly this book is not going for the Robert Cato treatment. Not in terms of moral condemnation for the rotten parts, but rather just to give an insight of…

Awesome schmawsome, is it great? I feel like that is distinctly the point the writer was trying to make.

Yes and no. Channels with pro-sports rights (local MLB and NBA broadcasters and ESPN) are the most expensive channels by a large margin. Link below shows that ESPN was $6.04/month per subscriber in 2014, while most popular non-sports channels are under $1 - note that TNT has NBA rights. Many local sports channels…

Dylan Moran?

Yeah it included a large helping of rendered chicken fat but you have to cut it some slack for being the first film (1991) to present that type of story to a wide audience. I imagine that was a key to its success - they needed to cheese it up a bit to connect with the early-90's suburban crackers - and it opened the…

The article begs the question of whether there was actually sufficient streaming etc. to push the decision in favor of renewal of the show. There appears to have been some show of support - but low ratings / expensive to produce - NBC may have needed a truly overwhelming show of support to renew it in light of other…

My favorite is his answer to "why did Mr. Milo cross the road?" I actually don't recall the squirrel one. Apparently that was great movie for animal fornication jokes.

What age were you when you realized that comedy sequels work almost never? Paraphrasing Andy Rooney, the honeydews of film. I was 13, Beverly Hills Cop 3, which was so god-forsaken terrible it probably added five years worth of cynicism to my expectations. So I think by 18 most people should put it together.

Even going back farther, Elia Kazan won Best Picture / Director in 1948 for the solid but unspectacular Gentleman's Agreement, which was about subtle anti-semitic discrimination against professionals in NYC. While it was true at the time (as it was for basically anyone who wasn't a WASP), it has definitely lost some…

His thesis is that crappy NFL announcers are, in the end, a vaguely enjoyable aspect of watching a football or at the worst benign white noise. Of course he cannot mention the devil Buck, as he is a despicable whore-son so obnoxious that he can destroy a normal human being's enjoyment of a good game - truly he is…

I could swear the one on the left looks familiar from an American Express commercial, but I must be mistaken as, per wikipedia, "the band's lyrics alternate between personal and political topics, rebelling against war, traditionalism, gender roles and consumerism from feminist and progressive perspectives."

This one is really testing me as to whether it's genuine or if it's written in the mouthbreather as a joke. Ending with the 'yourself' seems a little too perfect for it to be real. If so it is damn well done.

I remember particularly enjoying it because it was a bit out of left field, like Ron Howard had asked Tarantino to take over for a scene. Also that he doesn't much pretend it's a real conversation but that he's just screaming into a prop.

Went to film school Was a valedictorian!

Honestly, there's like an editor or some other high-ranking person at avclub who forces you to replace 'excellent' or 'high-quality' and the like with 'essential' on a regular basis, right? I do hope so. You otherwise seem like a nice, fairly-intelligent group. I just find it difficult to believe that so many…