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Butch Walker for me. Too much of my life and personal growth can utilize his albums as the soundtracks to those moments, and by this point I'll listen to anything he does and judge it super, super unfairly.

Like when Channing Tatum finally figures out how to be funny and charismatic onscreen, and you think "No! You were supposed to be a lunkhead forever!"

But what I like about Talking Funny is how Seinfeld, Rock and CK very faintly, subtly imply that Gervais is exempt from true stand-up comedy conversations, since he got into it when he was already famous. They all had to struggle immeasurably as stand-up artists, he didn't, and they all know it.

The Coens: Better at this shit than anybody else out there when they actually try.

And Rihanna forgave Chris Brown, too. That's their choice, not mine.

If Superman and Batman play the villains in each other's movies, I am fucking there.

This is nothing new if you frequented hilarious, shitty fringe news blog Sweetness & Light back around the time Obama won the 2008 election. There was one commenter there in particular who wrote tons of crazy fanfiction, sometimes sci-fi about Obama's "jackbooted thug armies" hunting and searching for the last living

Wanted was total fucking garbage, without question one of the worst books I've read. Kick-Ass (the movie, so perhaps I can't FULLY judge the book) was barely a story, one that completely sidelined the hero in favor of far, far more competent and developed side characters, creating a lopsided, stakes-free mess.

If Gentlemen Broncoes was literally just the Sam Rockwell scenes from the book the kid was writing, it would have been an A+ film.

It certainly would be the logic many car nuts use.

It's weird, because Eminem after all this time is still unquestionably talented. But at what? Riding a beat and rhyming words? I'm hearing skill but it all sounds so tired, especially since what he's rapping about is how re-energized he is.

Let's make it interesting. Season 4 jokes only.

Sweeney Todd was pretty darn good. The musical, obviously, I haven't seen, otherwise I'm sure I'd hate it. But I dunno, it worked surprisingly well for late-era Burton.

The beginning to this trailer ticks off so many requirements on the YA checklist, it's almost dizzying. Not-goth, yet deeply withdrawn teen whom nobody "gets," moving to a new place she doesn't want to go, the world vaguely dystopian in what could either be a ham-handed metaphor or a convenient excuse to have as few

Completely agreed. When it came down to "depict Skyler in three dimensions, soften her, make her laugh and cry in equal measure" or "pull off the insane balancing act of keeping us rooted in Walter's outcome even as he does more and more terrible shit," the writers clearly saw more gold in the latter.

Honestly, this took brass nuts, so congratulations. I'd hate to take this assignment.

Honestly, both Kim and Paris (plus their handlers) are geniuses. I hate them, inasmuch as someone can hate another person they don't really know at all, but parlaying a sex tape into multiple tv shows, fashion lines, a movie career and more is clearly something Ray J was incapable of. In fact, I like to imagine what

Women like to laugh about faking orgasms with men all the time, but it also seems pretty sad. If I couldn't experience orgasms with the opposite gender, even if it was completely their fault, I'd be rather depressed. But I guess you have to find the comedy in these things to keep going on.

Gillette used to be the queen of snark around here. Then O'Neal took over when she went off to work on The Office, and The AV Club has become a different place. Now, horrible reality shows are given a chance, and often a B or B+ or something. Straight-up insulting Justin Bieber is now too easy; snarketeers have to

Disney-Pixar is clearly building an Avengers-esque franchise, with the worlds of Cars, Planes and Boats all set to collide in 2018's "The Hydroplaners."