As a straight man, even I recognize that Bardem is an attractive dude, but that picture up top makes him look like a frickin' Neanderthal.

Given that AV Club seems to go by US release dates ("Mother" was making the festival rounds last year), it's still legit.

RED RIDING
Glad to see that at least one person at the AV Club caught the Red Riding trilogy. Of the three, I thought only "1974" was top-ten-worthy, but they're all moody, twisty, and entertaining.

Yes, make it the next film you see. Best movie of the last decade, no exaggeration.

No kidding. Seriously, America, have the decency not to gawk at something for once.

Whoops, missed the one-sentence mention at the tail end of Tasha's answer. I am a dumb.

Yeah, the lack of Firefly in the responses displeases me greatly. I'm no Whedon fanboy (haven't seen Buffy, don't really have any plans to), but I can't think of a single TV series that would have benefitted from further seasons more than Firefly. And don't say that the movie took care of that, because the movie was…

Good call, C.C. Baxter. I thought it was a solid little submarine actioner, much better than dreck like U-571. Never really understood why people disliked it. I mean, yeah, it's easy to make fun of Indiana Jones doing a Russian accent, but he's not bad in it.

Why would he want to talk about the GOOD music? Isn't the raison d'etre of this column to toss off a page and a half of snarky one-liners about terrible songs and then take a nap?

It had huge framerate issues if you tried to play with the full 8 people, though. I remember having to turn off some weapons (like the otherwise awesome grenade-that-makes-you-control-like-a-drunkard) just because they'd slow everything down too much otherwise.

Cool story, bro.

False. I think I played only multiplayer round in the Caves, and then everyone decided never to do that again. The Caves were just dark and impossible to navigate.

"The Bells" is fun, but a bit overwrought. As Lovecraft in Brooklyn pointed out, it's an incredible piece to read aloud. Poe's not a great poet overall — too histrionic and overfond of archaisms — but his poetry is among America's best for sheer sonic prowess.

Dang it Chartex, you stole my thunder, and pulled it off with more finesse than I did. I hate you.

I wouldn't be freaked out, because I'd have seen everything, you see.

UNLESS, explodingbarrel, Gordon and Batman faked Dent's death on purpose so that no one would find out about his transformation into Two-Face. Meanwhile, they might have spirited him away somewhere - to Arkham Asylum, or maybe some cell in whatever new Bat-Cave gets built. I think it's plausible. At the end of "The…

I hear he's doing his next movie with Tommy Wiseau.

I remember not being particularly impressed by it as a kid until the demise of Oogie Boogie. When he started screaming MY BUGS MY BUGS I knew I would have nightmares that night. And I did.

ITS NOT A CHORE ITS ART SQUID BRAINS!!!1!

Puddleglum isn't an antihero because he never does anything bad. He's just a sadsack. That doesn't make him any less awesome, of course.