Hmm. Maybe self-applying the nickname 'The Teacher' isn't panning out.

Hiding in this franchise is something to say about life being inextricable from consumption and destruction, and how 'balance' or 'harmony' are concepts contradicted by nature at its core, because oh look, aliens. I felt that self-sacrificing seed-the-new-planet scene in Prometheus was gathering up for some thesis or…

I am very with you. I stand by the canonical Alien and Blade Runner, largely because their focus on atmosphere and location-as-character play to his strengths as a painter and set designer. Otherwise I think he's a hack with little grasp of character, dramatic pace, or bigger ideas. Gladiator made me wince. Often. And…

Did I miss some huge Allen outrage? I've prelim Googled it and found nothing to merit the pointed razzing he gets on this site. He's supernaturally bland, irksomely wacka-wacka and non-rabidly conservative. That adds up to 'let's ignore the sad toad,' not 'let's overreact to the former king of mediocrity and lend a…

Really stings, given what Starz is now doing with Bryan Fuller. Wish we could've seen him on some proper material instead of the okay American Gods (which he's somehow making look like the best story in a thousand years.)

I'd like to Kickstart you into the director's chair.

How are these stories not getting prestige show treatment? Me and my mate made a practice writing project out of a hypothetical three-season HBO show maybe twelve years ago. (We cast the still-budding Gordon-Green as Lancelot and Ledger as Arthur.) It worked so smoothly: Arthur's rise and attempt to sell his spurious…

I really dug this movie. But I've since taken the plunge into what Cruise's Scientology game is all about…and I don't think I can see his flicks anymore.

"No response is necessary."

You're a master at this, cig.

Stupid fuckin bird thought it was so smart but didn't know to soak its beans first.

I think it's a huge, maybe a catastrophic, error to come to our world or show portals. The first book is weird and eerie and mesmerising because all the motives, fallen history, and otherworld infrastructure are seeped almost invisibly into the dusty terrain of the present. Roland's past, Walter's motives, Jake's…

If it helps, the family begins the film long-since crumbled, and only cobbles itself together a bit again as things go. Shannon and Edgerton's rescue-mission sorta thing is weird and hard to parse at first, as it digs around to *reveal* little threads of familial connection. You don't have to watch big family…

I just don't understand your decision to interpret omission as offense. It presumes the AV Club's omniscience, endless staff man-hours, and premeditated pop-culture malevolence—none of which are sensible assumptions. Even the last one is based on no evidence other than your outraged tastes.

Why? Because your one guy didn't get an obit? Boston is thimble-deep stadium rock. You can't be shocked that they haven't won a huge following among staff or commenters here.

I think declining to report on it as hot-take music news does not constitute 'not giving a fuck.' The man died and that is truly sad. But he likely died of realizing that he'd spent his entire musical in one of the fucking weakest bands of all goddamn time, and while I very much doubt the Club just ignored the event,…

He may have been a jam-band noodler, but it is metal as fuck to die at your own show with an axe in your hand. Witness.

What a cool idea.

What do people think is the most interesting starting place for Cooper? I see no options except DUH SPOILERS
1. He has escaped. Bob is free. Coop tries to convince people they must battle a possessing id-spirit dressed in greasy heroin addict jeans. He is the show's hero.
2. He is Bob. He is the show's villain.
3. He is…

Been twice. The first, for Mule, was the best experience ever conducted with my face. The second, for Real Gone, was…well, he has a jazz background, and he didn't feel like just doing the same old songs, so we heard a lot of older material but in vampy new arrangements. It wasn't 'peak' or 'classic,' but it was…