Monarchy works on a "Zuko and his descendants firebend any challengers to the throne into ash" basis.  Call it the Henry IV plan.

I can definitely hear Denzel pausing for half a beat, then saying "…without hesitation."

Particularly if that achievement involved you murdering someone, and now there's so much blood, all over your hands…

I don't see what's so confusing about British accents being hot.

As far as I know, AC/DC still hasn't allowed their music to be put on iTunes.  In many ways, they're more protective of their music than Led Zeppelin- they may be more willing to sell their music to movies and commercials than Zeppelin, but they make sure the people buying it pay top dollar.

So the movie is named "Labor Day," but it releases on Christmas?

How did you know my mom has a crush on Kevin Kline?

People who look like Daniel Radcliffe go out for sports over here.

I dunno, his belief that him receiving a lap dance from a stripper with all his employees lovingly watching him might drive it home just a little more forcefully.  Seriously, the fact that Michael was excited things were apparently going to go down that way is one of the most disturbing things I've seen, even if was…

Even vegans think that lobsters are horrifying sea-cockroaches.

I liked Musopen's previous Kickstarter project, but hopefully this one will go a little smoother.  Two years after the first one, they still hadn't recorded most of the music, and had put up a notification asking for anyone who knew something about digital mixing to volunteer their time. Of course, the first one was…

@avclub-4d3bac64f0fbcc90a6b5c82f09ea4418:disqus  "Yes, I do, because it's grossly hypocritical to write SF and get rich and revered doing so while at the same time denigrating SF."
Oh, well, that's going to continue to happen, so, um, have fun being mad. At least you still have endurance like the Liberty Bell.

"Dude, I have so much respect for YOU! I mean, I try to be like you in some aspects of my life."

It really does look awesome.  I don't know why I like cover art that pretends to look like a cheap 1950s paperback so much, but I really do.  Jeffrey Eugenides's The Marriage Plot is another great example, at least in the original hardback edition.

Oh, well, what is a critical and textually-supported examination of literature compared to your impressions?  I mean, on one hand, Atwood's arguments are backed up by a thorough knowledge of literary history and a considered examination of where her work fits into that tradition, but you had a feeling, so fuck that!

Considering that Starship Troopers and Ender's Game are two of the most celebrated science fiction novels of all time, and both are about giant talking bugs in outer space, I don't think that's necessarily inaccurate.  Reductive, perhaps, but it does show that a considerable gulf exists between Atwood and Heinlen, in…

Well, the two have a great deal of overlap, but not everything that extrapolates modern technology does it with the same amount of care as Verne and the hard sci-fi writers.  Could Farenheit 451 ever be called "hard sci-fi?"  Probably not, but it's all still extrapolation of modern tech.  Same with Atwood- I don't…

Pre-emptive "Waaah Margaret Atwood doesn't think science fiction is real literature and wants to participate in its ghettoization by calling her work speculative fiction" response thread.

I will say that, based on the trailers, it looks like Cuaron found a way to meld the Children of Men-style long shots into a more recognizable film language- there's a point in the trailer where Bullock begins spinning around and around, moving directly toward the camera, and when she's right in front of the camera it…

@avclub-126ad03316db7675164e3f0c8be270e9:disqus you seem to be stuck in the jammed door frame of allegorical prejudice- allow me to set you free with the car battery of acceptance.