I still really love the first trailer I saw for Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, which contains none of the film's dialogue and is set to New Order's "Age of Consent". It makes me wish the whole film had just been those amazing images set to music.. which I think might have worked actually

I thought the Citizenfour trailer was kindof unintentionally comical due to Snowden being such an anti-thriller dork. Chilly, brooding, atmospheric, then in walks this Mormon-looking cheeseball. Hiya!

I hope that's right but also, I have no problem making fun of a neckbeard. I do not feel at all comfortable openly expressing my disdain for the Cancel Colbert types. That there isn't a "neckbeard" nickname equivalent for those people is maybe evidence of what I'm talking about. Or, maybe it really sincerely just…

It's hard to admit this without seeming like you're somehow on the side of the gamergate/etc folks you rightly call assholes, but it seems to me that it's also been the year when humorless self-righteousness overtook self-aware righteousness among progressives, the cancel Colbert thing being the best example. I hate…

Is ZMF… Steve Agee?

Oh, sorry to say I didn't witness the taping of any of the cutaway gags. I assume they filmed all of those earlier in the day or something. Though, there were two shows, so maybe also I was just at the wrong one! The show I saw was a pretty straightforward comedy set, plus cameras. Yassir Lester, who is great and will…

It's a best-of list though, so wouldn't it be a dishonest choice to swap out an album the writers thought was better? If it were just a list of great comedy albums to check out, then yeah it should absolutely contain more females. Or, are you saying it sucks that it wasn't a great year for female comics?

"I'm not a bigot, I go after everyone equally" is your perception of how he thinks. It's not a quote, and it's got nothing to do with anything. Can you just stay away from comedy please? Please. Just… you're making the world worse. Please.

Well then maybe a better question would be, what does Christianity give us that is good that we would not have without Christianity? If Christianity is just a nebulous framework of morality that still requires you to be the good, why bother?

Thanks for weighing in here KHalleron! I hope my post wasn't insulting or demeaning to you or other Christians in any way, and I'm glad you're here and willing to talk about this stuff. Your reply actually gets exactly to what it is that's bothering me- why do you say that Christians, as individuals, are failing or…

Thanks for the considered response. I guess my answer would be that the good things it does don't actually require it and could happen without it, which is not always true of the bad things it does. I come from a deeply Christian, deeply conservative family, and it takes very little effort for me to understand the…

This guy is an idiot, as are the people defending him. That said, I'd really be interested to hear some discussion not about *his* ignorance, but about the source of that ignorance. It feels to me like progressives are currently trying to hold this dishonest middle ground where we are outraged when a Christian claims…

it's driving me crazy what the unfortunate timing of the "unfortunately timed update" was. Somebody pleaaaaaseeee?

ummmmmm Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers was not only the MOST essential thing of 1993, but probably the entierty of the 90's. GOODBYE FORVER, AV CLUB

My girlfriend took me to a the annual fair in her hometown, and in the pavilion with all the ribbons awarded to amateur photography (largely b&w photos of American flags and indifferent shots of people's dogs), pies, ect, there was a small little corner of tablescaping finalists. Charming, bewitching, and deeply…

Yep!

The end of Sports Night is maybe the happiest ending of any adult TV show ever.

You're not wrong- it's a very straightforward story. That just doesn't make it bad on its own. Some stories are straightforward. That said, there are character arcs, there are masterful set pieces, there's an iconic score, and there are great looking dinosaurs.

I honestly don't know what you're talking about. Couldn't you reduce any movie that easily?

Two scientists whose lifelong work and ambition is seeking knowledge about a long extinct species get a chance to fulfill their deepest held fantasy to experience their obsessed-over abstraction in the flesh, only to have that wish fulfillment result in violence and destruction. That's a great story!