also, dogs barking "Jingle Bells".

The Ethel Merman disco album.

+1 if you're looking forward to watching a dubbed version this on Telefutura in about 15 years

I understood the numbering to be a parody of the gangster/action movie convention of crooks being obsessed with being #1 in their racket (or town, or just in life).  And so often, when hired killers are introduced in action movies, they are described as "one of the top assassins in [the outfit, the nation, the…

My guesses: (1) a large amount of year-end listmaking and commentary taking precedence over reviews of new DVD releases of old movies, (2) the holidays?

I dunno.  I get the impression that the average AVC reader is highly likely to be a refugee from a family of people who are *really* into mainstream pop culture.  So it might be very relevant.  Sort of how like extremely liberal political news junkies are very frequently the products of a conservative upbringing, and…

It's not that weird, actually—- Candace Cameron has always been a really serious Christian (like her brother, Kirk, of Growing Pains and "Left Behind" movie fame).  I think even during her time on that show, she did public appearances in places like Christian bookstores (in addition to the usual stuff in like shopping…

Don't forget Callista Flockhart!  America did, but Rutgers alums shouldn't.

Tragically unasked question in this interview: How does it feel to be history's greatest monster?

Maybe I was reading it too quickly, but does she ever actually go to the movies and drink in "Drinking at the movies"?  I kept waiting for that to happen, and it didn't?  Sort of a let down.  It's like when a movie has a distinctive title but they never actually work that title into the dialogue of the movie.  I hate…

That second song isn't as disgusting as I thought it would be when I clicked on it.  I keep forgetting that that verb has another meaning.

The what of the Fresh Prince?

Cross may not have a leg to stand on as far as "calling people out for being sellouts" is concerned, but at least he's funny.  Larry the Cable Guy could do a Laurence-Olivier-in-Hamlet-caliber performance in a movie, and his act would still suck.

… because Tom Cruise wouldn't let them film him on top of Wiz Khalifa?

That "Young, Wild, and Free" song is awful and I hate it, and Snoop at least ain't young.  He's 40!

You're forgetting a little album called "A Dipset X-mas", released by Dipset rapper Jim Jones and his affiliates in 2006 and full of instant holiday classics.  If "Dipset X-mas Time" isn't on your list of Christmas standards, you are dead inside.

M Ward needs a second facial expression.

Although I get the underlying point, I can't say I see the fact that DeLillo hasn't "cracked a joke" lately as a bad thing.  In my view at least, the biggest problem with contemporary "literary fiction" (if I can be forgiven for using such a reductive label—- hopefully you know what I mean), is that most writers of it…

I was about to post a less condensed version of this exact same sentiment, when I saw this.  I can't improve on this.  You said it.

I dunno, Terrence Malick did exactly the same thing with "Tree of Life."