Mr. ________ makes a good point!

I burst out laughing at the crane sequence. It was just so telegraphed from miles away ("golly, I wonder if that random crane operator he helps out will return the favor later on?"), so artificial and forced. What made it worse was the director apparently thinking it was this huge dramatic moment when really it was…

I would love to see Venom done right. He's such a cool villain and could edge pretty close to outright horror, which isn't something that superhero movies are doing at all these days, despite the possibilities.

The Pulitzer committee gave him a Big Red NO.

Sadly, Armond White is probably the individual with the most name recognition in film criticism these days, for all the wrong reasons. He's like the anti-Ebert.

He's an incredibly self-absorbed, vapid little twit, but I kind of see that as its own punishment. At this point I can't really be bothered to devote any brain-space to him, especially since my world and his media empire don't intersect that often.

It's the role that Elegant Victorian Lady was born to play!

If you call that "purple prose," you either have read nothing but Hemingway your whole life or else you haven't read much of anything. Good luck with the narrow-minded haughtiness, though; I know that does work out for some people.

Way to hit him where it hurts, Riff Raff. I'm sure the mayor of Gay Town is constantly worrying about people making fun of his persona.

I don't even know if *Calista Flockhart* could be considered three-dimensional.

So long and best wishes, Scott. I'll be keeping an eye on your Twitter feed so I can follow you to whatever new publication you move to.

If Tasha leaves too, that might be the death knell for my time here (barring the occasional lurking in F reviews and Newswires). No offense to the other film writers, but they're not a patch on Tobias and T-Robs.

I disagree. This is probably one of the best-written film reviews I've seen on the AV Club in a long time. That opening paragraph is poetic, not "overwrought," and seems entirely appropriate when reviewing a director of Malick's sensibilities. You want overwrought, go read Pitchfork's review of Radiohead's "Kid A." Tha…

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People seem to have really held on to their hatred of her. I don't remember even Richard Nixon's death inspiring quite this much vitriol and cheerful schadenfreude.

Isn't the Iron Throne a little, um, pointy? This could go wrong in so many ways.

The Mole People was my very first MST3K. I was about 11 and on vacation with my family. In our hotel room in the middle of the night, my dad was randomly flipping channels on the TV and stumbled across it. Neither of us had any idea what we were seeing at the time, but it was glorious. To this day I have fond memories…

Well, Leo certainly has the forehead for the part.

I think his problem with the Eilonwy ending is less that she gives up her powers to be with a man, but that the whole choice is capped off with "Well, at least you'll still have the special magic that all women have." Being a man who will probably always find ladies a bit mysterious and wonderful, I appreciate the…

@avclub-58f80cfeb0401e72edadcc105edade0c:disqus I'd have less of a problem with it if the source material had any action scenes in it to begin with.