I always watch shows with the closed captioning on and whenever they showed Shirley in her wacked-out state, and when she was attacking her mom, the captions said (fluttering). So definitely some weird insect action happening.

Oh who gives a shite, it was an amazing movie - just intellectual enough to make you think but not so much that you got bored. I'm not looking at a fictional movie to give me a lesson on quantum physics - I am looking to be transported to a different reality and explore the emotional possibilities of "what would I…

I watched this a lot as a kid, but the similar movie I watched a million times was Willow. Has anyone seen it lately? Does it hold up? Is Val Kilmer still charming? Is Warwick Davis still awesome?

I watched Exorcist as a teenager and was a bit disturbed but a little underwhelmed - I had heard tales of people running out of the theatre and didn't really get it. Now I have a 7 year old daughter and I watched it a couple weeks ago - genuinely disturbing and heartbreaking putting myself in the mom's shoes and…

I've been reading avclub long enough to know that the "food thread!" comments started less as 'let's swap recipes/talk about our weekends' and more as 'we've all decided we don't like Amelie any more, so let's jack all her posts and show how inessential she is to the avclub.'  Dick move.

Everytime I see someone start a "food thread!" on this feature, I just think wow, what a bunch of dicks.  They think they're being witty but they're just unnecessarily mean-spirited and annoying to scroll through.  And the joke on Amelie got old months ago.

I love that this exists - I literally LOL'ed in glee thinking of these moments as a meta-commentary on the nature of comedy and entertainment.  The only catch - how would Jamie Kennedy pull together this disparate group of people and get them on board to perform in his experiment?  How could he convince them to act…

@avclub-e57f718840a576abbb40a7d046c4e3b0:disqus  thank you about Normal Again!  The first time I saw it I felt like the writers had strung us along over all those seasons and built up such a rich complicated mythology only to kick us in the balls with the last five minutes of the ep.  I suppose thinking of it as…

@avclub-e57f718840a576abbb40a7d046c4e3b0:disqus  thank you about Normal Again!  The first time I saw it I felt like the writers had strung us along over all those seasons and built up such a rich complicated mythology only to kick us in the balls with the last five minutes of the ep.  I suppose thinking of it as…

I have nothing snarky to say about this.  Except — this girl has more talent and authenticity in her pinkie than LDR has in her overinflated lips or anywhere else.  I can't wait until this comes out - Siren Song was my favorite song for a long time….

I have nothing snarky to say about this.  Except — this girl has more talent and authenticity in her pinkie than LDR has in her overinflated lips or anywhere else.  I can't wait until this comes out - Siren Song was my favorite song for a long time….

I haven't read the article yet or any of the comments, but I saw the picture of Totoro, got warm fuzzies, and just had to say that it's the sweetest, most un-jaded movie out there for kids - it even surpasses Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.  If you have preschoolers, this is required viewing!

You're probably right - maybe just a teensy bit.

I normally enjoy the snark, cynicism, "too coolness," and other hiptserisms on the AV Club, but q&a has become unreadable to me because it feels like instead of honest answers, it's just a contest as to which AV staffer can "out hip" each other.  It feels so pretentious, I feel icky just reading it.  And yet I keep…

Weird I just posted above about this very thing - I've seen this season several times and I still don't understand it - and I'm not one of those TV watchers who has to be spoon fed every plot point.

I have watched the first two seasons of VM several times, and every time I watch season 2, I still get confused as to how everything fits together - Felix Toombs, Cassidy, Kendall, Terrence Cook, Mayor Woody, and especially the Fitzpatricks - to this day I still can't really explain the plotline.

Thank you about 'Baby it's cold outside'!  I have always seen it as a girl who is trying to leave a predatory guy's house with her reputation intact and without being manhandled.  What makes it worse is that it's trying to come off as a sweet/funny take on man/woman relationships a la "boys will be boys" and such…