Maybe people don't comment much on these reviews because the reviews themselves are pretty terrible?

God, I hate the music reviews here. How much of this review is reviewing the album, and how much of it is reviewing the band's/label's marketing strategy? It's not until halfway through the last paragraph that the actual content of the actual album is discussed, and then only in vague generalities; a single track is…

Seriously. I feel like these reviews are written by some half-broken, autistic robot - obsessing over the mechanics of the unresolved incest angle* while remaining completely oblivious to the joy of seeing these characters interact with each other.

@avclub-63706c2231765ca840e9a60a76fae00a:disqus  - yes, we ARE talking about wealth redistribution. That's the whole fucking point. When people are pissed off at the richest 1% having more wealth than the poorest 50%, they're addressing a fundamental economic imbalance in the system… an imbalance that can only be…

"But things happen in American football"

No, but he does think that actual modern warfare consists of swinging an axe at an orc.

I think it's more like, "Shut up, kids, because of BLAH BLAH MUSLIMS."

Apparently the new Triumph of the Will will involve geriatric ubermenschen making out with exotic hooker-ninjas green-screened over a CGI exploding thing.

Actually, if you look at it from the perspective of ALL of human history - including pre-agricultural society, which was pretty egalitarian, and in which women had a lot of power, a state of things which went back several hundreds of thousands of years before the development of class society and male domination - it's…

When people told their past with stories… explained their present with stories… foretold their future with stories… the best place by the fire was reserved for… JOHN HURT

"The Office and Extras - isn't that a lifetime pass?"

Eastwood really isn't particularly political at all. Obviously, bits of politics come out of his work here and there, but even the dull nationalism of "Flags of Our Fathers" really comes out of more of an instinct for cloying Hollywood sentimentality than anything else. "Million Dollar Baby" isn't a movie about…

The idea that the United States has built a massive prison industry which exists not to protect the populace but to protect the rich and powerful from those they rule is hardly "weird and unpopular" - it's fact. America has more people locked up in prison than China, a country with a population four times that of the…

Liked it better when it was called The Rocketeer.

See, that's the sort of thing that makes me hate biopics - the urge of every hack director and screenwriter to reduce the complex realities of human existence to trite cliche. So J. Edgar Hoover, one of the greatest monsters in American history and a chief architect of its ever-burgeoning prison state, was likely also…

For that alone he'd deserve to burn in hell, if there was a hell. The FBI doesn't exist to serve and protect us, any more than the police and the military do - it exists to protect and serve the rich and powerful, which is why the FBI spends its time throwing poor black kids in prison and bugging anti-war activists…

It's kind of hard to "horde the market" when the guy's basically written one book (well, okay, two books, but does anyone give a shit about "In The Shadow of No Towers"?). It's not even like he's cranking out one book after another about the holocaust - it's just Maus, and endless reprints and repackagings of Maus.

I am shocked, shocked that a pair of aging millionaires do not identify with a movement against concentrated power and wealth.

What man, which man, who's the man, when's a man a man, what makes a man a man, am I a man? Yes… technically I am

I'm sure none of the hipsters on this board could possibly have claimed to have liked the Decemberists back when it was cool to like the Decemberists.