Try io9. It's still a part of the Gawker ring, but in my experience the commenters are a lot less boorish.

My test group are my 5-year-old twin daughters. By coincidence, they saw Depp's Willy Wonka first and, as kids are wont to do, watched it about a dozen times in a month (so they were very familiar, and had a lot of affection for him). I finally got my hands on a DVD of the 1971 film, and after showing it just once I…

The Grass Sword went through the portal on Martin's side, didn't it? I have a feeling we may have not seen the last of it, and not in a good way.

I'm the oldest, so none for me. But my wife is the youngest of 6, and has gone on at great lengths about the good stuff that her older brothers introduced her to. Early R.E.M., the Clash, Camper Van Beethoven, and the Pogues, just to name a few.

After getting inspired by the Random Roles with Keith David a few weeks ago, I introduced my wife to the "They Live" fight via YouTube for the first time. So when the fistfight started on AT, even she picked up on it even though she's never seen that movie. It was a quick logical jump to figuring that Don John must be…

Still one of my favorite Vyvyan quotes to this day, as I find it can be applied to almost ANY situation:

When I read the title of this article, the first two films that came to mind were indeed "Requiem" and "Dancer in the Dark". Very telling that they ended up as the number 1 and 2. I saw both of these films in a short span of time with my girlfriend (who is very sensitive to emotional situations) at the same art-house…

What is going on there with Rory Williams is some serious "down-the-rabbit-hole" shit as well.

Some of the choices for previous Inspectors are fucking inspired. 60s-era Christopher Lee? Yes, please! Graham Chapman? Stephen Fry? O, for what might have been…

What is there to be said that hasn't already been said? This is ugly and confusing, counterintuitive and utterly unnecessary. In short, it's a complete mess. Maybe I'll come back in a few weeks or a month, after some fixes have been made to this. In the meantime, one of my favorite websites is now actually painful to…

Stereolab disbanded?? Shit, when did that happen?!

Uff, I know EXACTLY what you are talking about and I've never even read The Terror. The only series by Simmons that I know is Hyperion/Endymion, but it appeared to (eventually) suffer the same issue. The first two books were brilliant - excellent pacing, fascinating world, detailed characters, great action scenes… I…

I thought I was buying tickets for the world-wide simulcast, but it turns out they were for the show two days later on the 25th. Now I have to decide if I want to watch DotD on the actual anniversary, on my couch (at a specific sobriety level of my choice) and then watch it again later on the big screen, or if I have…

I had better luck. I live in Minnesota so it isn't as densely populated, but still there are only a few theaters in the entire Midwest participating. I couldn't be sure that it WOULDN'T sell out in like 5 minutes, so I got up early and had multiple browsers ready to go. I ended up refreshing the website like every…

Mmmmm, you'd best file a 4868, baby, 'cause I gots a whole bottle of Viagra and this is gonna last all night.

Sometimes they even take an entire season to get going. I will reserve judgment on this one until I see the "reveals" and the cliff-hanger ending that we get for the season finale.

The final concert of Mok Swagger at the Ohmtown Power Plant from the movie Rock and Rule!  He rocks so fucking hard he summons an apocalyptic extradimensional demon ("voiced" by Iggy Pop, natch) but only a few people got eaten. Odds are I'd be able to make good on my "I Survived A Mok Concert" T-shirt.

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I'm just sayin'.

Is that the interview in which he ranked a Soul Coughing reunion lower on his "to-do" list than losing an eye? He said something like "If you had already put out one of my eyes and were threatening to put out the other one, then maybe I'd agree to a reunion tour, but I wouldn't do it if you only put out one of my…

Some love for Maria Bamfoo? Shit, yeah. (be advised: here comes a cool story, bro moment. Just go with it)