This is great if you like sports, I guess, but why does the Tour de France get an entire feature article, but the Eurovision Song Contest (an event I'd have supposed would be much more in the A.V. Club's wheelhouse) gets fuck-all coverage? I don't recall it even getting a Newswire mention this year.

The incompetence of the studio / production company that made The Dark is Rising movie is truly astounding: some genius took the decision that it would be a better box-office bet to replace half of the British characters of the novel with Americans… at a time when the British-as-all-get-out Harry Potter movies were in…

The Flying Kiwi! Boy, that takes me back - I remember watching that when I was a kid. It was, sadly, a load of old garbage.

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"Sharon Connolly" isn't a bad fake name, but that superfluous-seeming middle "T" is what really gives the game away, somehow.

Yes, that's the kind of witty response I'd expect from an Adam Sandler fan.

Good. Looks like it's the minority view here today, but I have zero interest in Adam Sandler or this movie, so I'm glad no time was wasted getting Bradley Whitford to talk about him/it.

Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure "Houston, we have a problem" was a cliché many, many years before Apollo 13 was released.

That's because the Australian Woolworth(s) has no connection to the American original - the founder of the Australian company basically just borrowed the name.

I got out of my contract with the Australian version of Columbia House by putting together a letterhead for a fake law firm, and threatening legal action if they didn't stop sending CDs to "my client".

I haven't read any of his books, and in fact don't really know who he is, but I sure hope he finishes the third book.

Jesus. I'm assuming the cameraman's strapped on to the bike somehow - or is he really just sitting there side-saddle, hoping for the best?

Honestly, one of the few things I do really like about this movie is how feminist it is - that aspect of it mostly worked for me (and the fact that the MRA types loathe it is icing on the cake).

Yes, those are indeed some of the people who like this sort of thing.

Well, I'll be the contrarian: Fury Road was kind of stupid and pointless. Fairly exciting while you're watching it, but pretty stupid all around, and not particularly memorable afterwards (in the sense that it hasn't stayed with me at all - I saw it a few days ago).

Mate, that's a complete overexaggeration. It's 1/4 at best.

This is quite timely, because George Miller quite deliberately references Peter Weir's VW-with-spikes in an early chase sequence in Fury Road.

Thanks! (Although it's mostly other people's work, tweaked a little by me.)

My niece and I had just finished a salad at Neiman-Marcus Cafe in Dallas and decided to have a small dessert. Because our family are such cookie lovers, we decided to try the "Neiman-Marcus Red Velvet Oreo". It was so excellent that I asked the waiter if he could give me the recipe and he said, "I'm afraid not."

I agree. I think we should talk about classic 19th century English literature - Middlemarch, for instance. Now, if Disney bought Middlemarch and merged it with the MCU, would it make more sense to replace Dorothea Brooke with Gwen Stacey or Mary-Jane Watson?