I understand why art matters. I get why people can feel emotional or rally around a piece of art, because I do those things too. I don't do those things with sports because that's an entirely different thing.

Why is it a point of civic pride? That's the question I want an answer to (did you read my post?)

I just posted a well-reasoned response from the position not being into sports, which took several minutes to write, which was not at all offensive or inflammatory. It was immediately flagged as spam by someone and removed from the discussion.

Bill Evans: Michael Fassbender

No actually…that movie was about Charlie Parker ('Bird' was his nickname) and that's who Forrest Whitaker played

I wasn't necessarily thinking of a movie solely about Coltrane. A movie about the Miles Davis Quintet of the 50's would have been great - using that group as an entry point to the jazz movement in general. There was plenty of drama to be found in that group.

The article doesn't confine itself to comics, so why should we? They do actually still make movies about other things. Particularly real life historical people, past or present. As for books, are you telling me readers don't have actors in mind, especially younger people reading something like The Hunger Games? Of…

Unfortunately true. I try to give the movies a chance…a good movie's a good movie and I like some a lot (ie the Nolan Batmans). But I've never had any actual interest in comics or the characters. For me it's like, "Oh, here's a guy in a costume who's blind and fights crime. Oh, here's another guy in a suit, except…

90% of these comments are about comic characters. Jesus, can't anyone think about anything else these days?

The Dukes of Hazzard would have been a very different, and awesome show if Sheriff Coltrane was black and a genius jazz saxophonist

Denzel Washington as John Coltrane. That could have really been something.

Do they have proofreaders? I wonder sometimes if AV club writers are trusted to self-post articles without anyone else reading them.

This article has like 6 typos in it. In fact most AV Club articles have several. I've waited like 2 years to actually comment on it but, come on people…you can do better. The constant typos make you look like a second-rate organization and I think you're way better than that.

I understand what he's saying but "being a cheek-slapping cartoon" is exactly why Macaulay Culkin was perfect for Home Alone. Is it really a knock on him that his adult acting career didn't really go anywhere? Maybe some people are just meant to be great in silly kids movies and then do something else.

Isn't the point of anthology shows to retain some of the same sensibility from season to season, even if the particulars change? Why should I even think of this new season as True Detective? It sounds like the only thing these seasons have in common is cops and bad guys; otherwise it's just a different show under the…

That's too simplistic… It doesn't have to be "the same," but shouldn't it share some of the things that made the first season work? It could conceivably use structure and editing in similarly interesting (though different) ways, it could mash up genres again (though not necessarily the same ones as season 1), it could…

Um, Michael Mann? John Singleton? To Live and Die in LA - End of Watch - Rampart… There have been many depictions of the grittier side of LA. Maybe not as much on TV, but that's hardly a reason to justify yet another LA crime story about corrupt cops and drug kingpins..

Not surprising. They took away everything that was interesting about the first season. The creepy occult elements? God rid of those. Southern Gothic setting? Nah, we don't need that. Now it's in LA, because there's never been an LA crime story before and we really need some of those.

Yeah, there's something weirdly uncool about liking Crowded House, isn't there? I don't know why. Neil Finn is as good a melody writer as anyone, and his lyrics occupy that hazy impressionistic space that suggests rather than tells, in an artful and poetic way (similar to Jeff Tweedy or Thom Yorke). They are in no way…

Hear This has covered several of my favorites…M Doughty, Old 97's, and more. How about some Crowded House? I know the AV Club staff has some Neil Finn devotees. They should do "Distant Sun," the most perfect pop song that nobody's heard.