That thing looks like the bastard son of McGruff the Crime Dog and Zac Effron.

Duck, duck, gray duck is an abomination.

This is no place for an entomologist.

James Woods is perfect in this.  "Why you frickin', no good, mother [beep] [beep] cheese!"

I'm. . .me?

Homer, that hat's been with the station twenty years!  He had one day left till retirement.

I thought Argo was great, very much one of my favorites of the year.  But yeah, now that it's the sort-of frontrunner, obviously people detest it.

Hey, if anything is going to sweep categories it wasn't nominated in, it's going to be Holy Motors!

Yet another time traveler here to vote for A+!

I assumed it was "needs."  I'm very sensitive.

That the caption on the above photo does not read 'Omar's Coming' reveals deep, deep cracks in the AV Club editorial process.

I really hate to hijack somebody else's obit, but I don't know if AVClub will publish a remembrance for Donald Richie; IMO, though, he really deserves one.  Probably the academic for making Japanese filmmakers more accessible to American audiences, Richie was the go-to Ozu scholar of a generation, and his writings on…

This makes me feel less awful about all the shitty, shitty student films I directed back in the day.

My first visit, I was only in Venice overnight for a premiere at the Film Festival.  It was one of those days you see pictures of, where the rain is pouring torrentially, and the canals overflow into the plazas and the whole town is like a big swamp.

Don't get me wrong, Italy is fantastic too, and much of what I said re: affordability of great street food and walking the city apply just as much there.  I almost considered Rome just an obligatory stop in Italy, but ended up enjoying it much, much more than I was expecting.  But I have a big soft spot for Paris…

There She Is, a friend's documentary on plus-size beauty pageants.  Although I don't actually recall whether it was via Kickstarter or Indiegogo.

Tonight, the friends that I split a Bruery Reserve Society membership with and I are finally going to forge through the shared bottles we have left from 2012.  On the hefty agenda: Black Tuesday (20% ABV imperial stout aged in bourbon barrels), Chocolate Rain (BT w/ cocoa nibs and vanilla beans), Grey Monday (BT w/…

I cast a thousand votes for Europe, but I'm not at all into tropical destinations so it was an easy choice.

I think the implication was if you live in NYC you don't necessarily have to listen to much of the radio because you don't spend any time in your car. I know living in LA I listen to more shitty FM radio on any given day than I did over several months when I lived in NY, merely because I'm stuck in my car in traffic.

We find in favor of . . . BIG AMERICAN PARTY!!!