Synecdoche is actually hilarious. And tragic at the same time. It's a headfuck, but a really great experience.

Showbiz Book Club? Box of Hardbacks? I Read This On Purpose?

Superted! Now that takes me back. I remember the villains being a cowboy and a campy skeleton, but that's the sort of thing you just accept when you're a kid.

Like the promise of 85% new material
I really hope there are plans to publish it outside the U.S. - not being able to win a DVD of S. Darko is one thing, but I'll be distraught if I can't catch up with pop-culture-listy goodness.

"…cost the network a hefty sum in chimp-training fees alone."
I only hope I can rack up an achievement half as awesome in the course of my career.

Agree with trajeado on Lazarus. Haven't heard much Cave, but it's a great album.

Season 6 was plenty good. There'a a LOT of thematic depth in those episodes, and while they seemed maddeningly slow-moving at times, there are more and more layers to unpack when you watch them the second time round. My understanding was heightened by Matt Soller Zeitz's blog post asserting that Kennedy and Heidi (the…

I'm in agreement with alurin, Admiral Neck (and magnusbarfod , but in a slightly less vitriolic way), in that BSG spent most of the series juggling science, faith and politics in a way that put most other TV show to shame, and in the final episode dropped those balls.

I was thinking about this not so long ago, and realised that Box of Paperbacks is one of my favourite features on the A.V. Club, because it comes from one writer's personal perspective and relates to bits of pop-culture that the majority of us wouldn't get to experience otherwise (as opposed to I Watched This On…

"While Reniwck opened the gateway to hell, I was in the canteen, making us a coke float."

Both my personalities hate Claude's comment.

For the record, I don't mind Ghaleon being the one anti-Pixar guy round here, it's just that he does it with an air of such sneering condescension that he most likely pisses off more people than he converts.

Aardman Animations is one of those "guaranteed pop-culture laughs" we were doing on an earlier AVQ&A.

For once, a G2G that reflects my experience
I read "A Supposedly Fun Thing" last month and loved it. It was one of those rare moments in reading where you're racing to keep up with the crazy tangents and stream-of-consciousness moments, but at the same time nodding along because this is a guy who Gets It. The titular…

Well, Scott did an entry on the commentary track for The Limey, so there's a precedent.

"It looked like it was directed by Steven Seagal."

Iron Man was great fun, Pilgrim. I was talking more along the lines of the super-serious angstifying in the trailer for that new Wolverine film. I think Hollywood is torn between the guaranteed moneymaking properties of superheroes, and the feeling that masks and tights can look pretty goofy in live action, so they…

The Incredibles has a lot on most contemporary superhero movies, because it's actually FUN. Also, it plays with the genre conventions while still honouring them.

That should have been "*hang* on their every word" above. Anyway, I looked back up at the article and Scott appears to object to the celebrity stuff on the grounds that it's dumb and an easy target. Can't argue with that, but I found it funny. Different strokes, I guess.

Isn't the celebrity-bashing just as ridiculous as the OTT homoeroticism on the Team America side? Pretty sure it's not meant to be a trenchant critique of anything - it's basically mocking the fact that celebrities can make dumb pronouncements about the world and people will hand on their every word.