Having seen this now, there is an equivalence, but I don't think it's the one Dowd frets about here. The four main characters are all unable to place their violence socially—by which I don't mean that it's reasonable to say a woman defending herself against a potential rape should take time to consider "hmm, what does…

@EvelKareebel:disqus The Rock is in a weird place where he's not bankable per se but a bankable addition to sequels. He probably deserves a lot of credit for helping Journey 2 gross almost $100 million more than the first, even though the original was almost entirely dependent on the booming 3D craze that was dead or…

@avclub-fde756c3b7dfe1636fa285466fc51813:disqus Expecting consistency from any natural language is a losing battle. (Loss #1: The word "it's," which quite maddeningly stands for both "it is" and "it has," and in speech also stands for the possessive form of "it." Where's the consistency!?!?)

"Just remember this shit: When I come home and have a victory celebration 'cause I kicked ass on the show and I ate a whole goddamn pizza by myself, I don't share a one single slice with you. No slices for WIFE."

You're right, that was Shaun Ryder

"Math" might not actually be abbreviated from a plural. "Mathematic" was once the standard form and was revived in the late 19th century "for use instead of mathematics in contexts where the unity of the science is emphasized" (per the OED). "Math" dates from the same period (and apparently predates "maths"), so it's…

This might be pedantic, but the late '80s/early '90s gambling craze (like the roughly contemporaneous gangster and Wong Fei-hung crazes) was really a revival of an older craze, kicked off in this case by the Hui Brothers' great Games Gamblers Play (1974). These were distinguished from later gambling films in that they…

@avclub-2586d0717b58d4f4383144ca1341d079:disqus They have a few dozen affiliates, a couple dozen owned and operated stations, and are available on pretty much all cable and satellite services. Ditto Telemundo.

I came up with the plot for Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending in 1998. I have multiple people who will testify to this. Unfortunately I would stand to gain nothing by it. I also invented the phrase "fuck a duck."

good work

Scanner Cop

Terrierists, you say?

Spectacular Spider-Man was done by Sony. Marvel was fine with that as long as they were independent, since they didn't have their own animation studio (Marvel Animation doesn't actually do the animation themselves). But it makes no sense for Disney of all companies to funnel money to Sony for an animated series—not…

It annoys me, but my impression was that they do it in the film reviews because those run in the actual paper and it saves a little bit of space, since they can just write "Michael Dudikoff is an Interpol agent on the trail of cybernetically-enhanced organ trader Powers Boothe" instead of "John Slade (Michael…

A Scene at the Sea is good summertime viewing, though maybe not as crowd-pleasing. One of his best movies too.

@avclub-dbf6a0768465d59c8fca4d2e7d8a470c:disqus It's the same in Japan. What we would call stand-up isn't really popular there, they prefer double acts (manzai) and sketches and the like. Kitano himself became famous as a double act called "The Two Beats"; one of the interesting things about it (in light of his…

I for one am sick of all the subjective negative reviews on this site. This finale should've been reviewed on objective criteria like "number of times a boom mike drops into frame and whacks an actor in the face," in which case the answer is zero and the appropriate grade is A-plus-PLUS!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s also within driving distance of that park where you can look at Jackie Chan’s stuff, which is now basically China’s Knotts Berry Farm.

@e_buzz_miller:disqus Some AB members are also part of the Christian Identity movement, but many others are adherents of "Odinist" religions, especially Asatru. Aryan Nations (a separate organization) is an explicitly Christian Identity group, so you might be thinking of them.

The big bad has already been cast!