All I'm saying is one year Rancid bullied their way into major roles in our Christmas pageant. Tim played the angel and all we could get out of him was "Hark! Until you a blurgy blarg." We thought it would be a disaster but in the end we all learned a little about ourselves. It truly was a Christmas miracle.

I think everybody gets a pass on misunderstanding Rancid lyrics. Annunciation isn't one of Tim Armstrong's strong suits. Most of the time he sounds like Shane MacGowan with a mouthful of peanut butter.

I'm all good with them satirizing both side but I think the right gets a much more clever skewering than the left. The best satire is when it's hard to distinguish from the real thing, i.e. the Bruckheimer War on Terror send-up. If you replaced the puppets with Ben Affleck and Cuba Gooding, Jr. a lot of people might…

Scott Tobias is a film critic using an adjective to describe a movie, not a psychologist diagnosing a patient. Some words have more than one meaning.

I watched Blow Up knowing nothing about it except that it was supposed to be a significant film and once I got over my initial disappointment that it wasn't that De Palma movie with Travolta that I also had meaning to get around to watching I had a similar reaction to Grey Ghey. A lot of it looked nice, but Michael…

So we can look forward to Dakota the Vampire Slayer. Joy.

Hmm.
Never even heard of this but the write-up is enough for me to search it out on Netflix. Incidentally, how about some more of these end-of-season wrap-up posts for shows that don't get ongoing coverage? A lot of shows get the pilot covered and then are never heard from again and pilots are notoriously bad gauges…

The "Scott Evil" problem was bothering me through the whole end of the movie. They're in the middle of Skynet's friggin' base where they build the terminators and they only send CG Arnold to kill John Connor and not the stockpile of Terminators that no doubt the place was crawling with? The open-heart surgery in the…

Hey AV Club, any chance of replacing the letter grades with Ownings Per Minute.

Monkey Dust
Some of my favorite lines come from the British animated series Monkey Dust but they don't tend to work because I have literally never met anyone American, British or otherwise who has even heard of the series. Like a good dork I don't let that stop me. "I am the Paedofinder General and by the power…

Who wouldn't love a section of the AV Club dedicated to cool videos? It would also be awesome if they started reviewing music and movies here.

Mike & Me
About a month ago I was walking outside the capital and saw him interviewing some congress-y looking guy. I thought it was my big chance to either wander my way into the background of a major motion picture or at least fuck up a scene for Michael Moore so I walked into his shot, staring directly at the…

I watched this in a high school theology class in about '92 (the same class where I also first saw Harold and Maude and Norman Lear's Cold Turkey). My head nearly exploded when I started hearing lines of dialogue from Jesus Built My Hot Rod. Immediately after that class I went to the library and checked out The…

E.T.?

Yeah, dude. Double album doesn't mean anything anymore. Now it's just "really fucking long album".

The problem here is that calling anything "porn" is instantly dismissive. Maybe it's just me, but I think porn is good for one thing only. Once the deed is done, it loses all value. When you label something as "_____ porn" you reduce it to one single factor and discount everything else that has gone into the film so…

Jebus Cripes, one wikipedia synopsis and you guys start j'accusing off all over the place. Is now an appropriate time to start thinking of the children?

I think calling this film misogynist and claiming the final third is played for vicarious thrills like in the hostel franchise is missing the point in a big way. The beatings go on for so long that they are shocking and brutal at first but eventually you, like the girl, go numb and stop wincing and just take it. The…

This isn't without precedents. They kept it on the hush hush but a few years back one of Rabin's articles got in a heap of trouble for slapping some girl on the ass. They reportedly settled for six digits out of court. Who wants to bet he glosses over that event in his fancy-boy memoir?

Not quite. Alcopops are "malt beverages". Not the same. Malt liquor is like beer but instead of being made out of hops and barley it's made out of desperation and broken dreams.