Is this the one with the diner waitress scene that I've heard a bunch of praise for?

Let's not backhand our compliments to Dave Barry! He's essentially retired now, with no regular columns in a decade, and based on the brilliant work in his career, it's OK if he recycles a few jokes now. Growing up my parents had an entire shelf of Dave, from the early works ("Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead")…

Everything everyone has said about the ending of this movie is right - it's extraordinary. Almost feels like they set up the whole movie to have that payoff, and who could blame them? Endings are hard. This is a great one.

For those who hadn't already figured it out: Dennis Lee's blog is the best food blog in world history. From "The All-Dick Meal" to "I Drank Beer Made for Dogs," from "I Found a Recipe for Ground Beef Brownies and Then I Made Them" to "What Happens When You Sous-Vide Taco Bell for 48 Hours?" it is clear that Dennis Lee…

So you're a Weird Al-inspired act named Insane Ian? That's creative.

Shelby Fero writes for the AV Club??!??!?!

I had a great time!

If Bill Cosby had been completely and undeniably proven innocent of every claim, this joke would be HILARIOUS.

I'll be honest, both times I watched this, I thought he was saying YOU. WIN. A TOWN!!!

Enough with the autoplaying videos already.

UGH. You say this, but Doc Severinsen is currently leading an appallingly shitty easy listening mariachi crossover band in Mexico and the southern USA. They get together to do bad "soothing" takes on things like Falla's Fire Dance and "Malaguena" with their awkward combination of gentle guitar strumming and insanely…

Actually let's go Breaking Bad cast reunion. Giancarlo Esposito for scam artist with a golden tongue, Bob Odenkirk for stuffy railway exec, Anna Gunn to run the whorehouse.

Forgetting about the original cast and focusing on which seven people I'd want in my imaginary gritty Western:
- Idris Elba, outlaw with a code of honor
- Denzel Washington, deputy law man with a low, low price
- Michael Pena, wily cattle rustler
- Jennifer Lawrence, the power behind the town's throne
- Matthew…

Many of the crime novels are not all that pleasing. Critics have always accused Agatha Christie of being "bloodless" - literally, in that you never see the blood around the body. Nobody in Christie novels is ever sad that somebody got murdered.

Friendly reminder that Skip Hollandsworth also wrote the nutty true-crime article that inspired "Bernie".

This isn't meant to be journalism; it's commentary.

My theory is Mycroft created the Moriarty message as a giant hoax. He's powerful enough to pull it off, he tells Sherlock on Christmas that he doesn't want Sherlock to die, and it would infuriate all the fans who think that Moriarty has returned from the dead somehow.

On behalf of the Fraternal Order of Gimmick Accounts, I'd ask that you please refrain from stealing work from gimmick accounts. It just results in gimmick unemployment and poor broke gimmicks living on the streets.

It's been done before. The Merry Wives of Windsor is the closest thing we have to a Shakespearean shitbomb, but Arrigo Boito and Giuseppe Verdi turned it into Falstaff, which might be the most enjoyable, fun opera ever written.

Are you sure the screenwriter, "who has a background in music, understands the challenges"? Because the IMDB page says that in the middle of the performance, he goes back to his dressing room, and that at one point he tries to talk on his cell phone while playing onstage.