I am actually from a town neighboring Chagrin Falls, OH. It's actually filled to the brim with rich yuppies. I've always enjoyed the photo on the back of one particular Calvin and Hobbes collection that shows a giant Calvin destroying the town of Chagrin Falls. http://robot6.comicbookreso…

This is a perfectly serviceable show. Is it frustrating that it's not better? At times. But it delivers an enjoyable if not spectacular episode every week. There are few shows that can manage just that every week, so I'll probably stick around.

There are a good number of people who agree with you regarding Soundgarden. I'm just not one of them. The problem with establishing Badmotorfinger as the dividing line between good and bad Soundgarden is that Superunknown is a killer album. The band started to incorporate some acid-metal, psychadelic influences…

But even the idea that these bands were sad all the time seems like it was projected onto the genre. If you actually listen to some of the bands I would consider grunge, and not the post-grunge bands like Bush and Creed, there's actually a ton of humor in their music. Nirvana consistently made use of the…

I guess I take issue with a couple of assumptions this article makes. First and foremost, the author never fully, or in my opinion, accurately defines the genre of grunge. He seems to lump Creed, Bush, and Candlebox in with Mudhoney, the Melvins, Soundgarden, and Nirvana. Anyone with ears can tell you that there is…

The Gift might be my favorite single episode from the Doggett years. It was one episode where it felt as if the writers weren't repeating themselves.

Did you omit the word "version" in the above sentence, or are we now referring to Alfonso Cuaron as "The Cuaron"? Because if it's the latter, then I'm totally okay with that.

I saw this film when it was rereleased in 3D, and I was surprised at just how well it held up. I had watched Jurassic Park nearly nonstop for a while when I was a kid, but it had been a long time since I had last seen it. I actually liked the slow build towards the beginning, which made the second half of the film…

I guess I'm confused by your complaints about M.I.A.'s message. At first you claim she's too simplistic because all she does is decry globalization. When I pointed out that the form of her music shows a more complicated relationship to globalization, then you claim she's being a hypocrite. So when she takes a clear…

12 Monkeys gets an entire TV show remake and La Jetee just gets a Criterion Collection release. Where's the justice?

As @avclub-6e716efd1ac524bbccbb5b57ee0e452a:disqus mentions, the review did in fact request that M.I.A. deliver a dissertation, so if you agree that the dissertation is unnecessary, then at least you can agree that this portion of the review is poorly thought out.

This review is one of the worse pieces of drivel I've seen published on AVClub. Those first couple of paragraphs are an absolute joke. Attacking an artist for giving you music that explores an issue rather than a "dissertation" is absurd. M.I.A. is one of the first major pop artists to engage with the topic of…

I agree with @avclub-e1124c85b8750ec73766ed905c3ff2b2:disqus. For whatever reason the George of the Jungle movie actually worked. They pretty much nailed the absurd, meta tone of the original cartoon and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. Normally it's a terrible idea to make a live action movie into a…

I just watched the Mr. Peabody and Sherman trailer, and while it mostly looks awful, the Trojan horse within the Trojan horse bit was pretty funny. It gave me a little bit of hope. Cruel, unrealized hope.

It actually might be an arcade, an outdoor area with a large roof. They were popular in the late 19th century, and a lot of people thought they seemed futuristic at the time, but today they look somewhat dated (I guess not that different from today's malls, in that regard). See also, the philosopher Walter…

Local H is one of the few bands to come out after the initial grunge explosion who still seem vital and engaged. Scott Lucas has a mostly defined sound, but he's always tweaking it for each album, moving it slightly forward. It also helps that Lucas seemed genuinely interested in the same bands, like Black Sabbath…

@avclub-4c56756898d633b36107f305da70351d:disqus and @avclub-6b8aa777ed70e7f15a45947a0f0c5986:disqus Local H has a song off their newest album titled "Another February." It tackles some of the similar themes as Merle Haggard's "If We Make It through December," but with more yelling. As a symbol for being tired and…

I think we can all agree that as a genre grunge originated from the local scene in Seattle, and it combined punk, garage rock, and metal into one big stew along with a heavy dose of irony. Defining genres obviously isn't an exact science, but bands like Collective Soul came by these influences second hand. The above…

I read this entire interview thinking he was talking about that Counting Crows song about December. Oh, interchangeable 90s pseudo-grunge alt rock bands.

By "guy from 'Parklife'" do you mean Damon Albarn, or do you mean that track from Parklife with the bum talking about feeding the pigeons?