The ol' car-gets-T-boned-as-the-camera-looks-out-the-driver's-side-window has now been so defanged by overuse in film and TV that it causes approximately zero injuries (you can still flip all over the place after it happens!) and is in fact arranged on purpose by the people in the car getting hit.

Yeah, it was pretty decent, well directed if clumsily written in places. I think maybe I was helped by not being as huge a fan of District 9 as others, so my expectations weren't excessively high?

I am very concerned that Captain Cold might be joining a TV Justice League type team, what with him having joined the comics Justice League. Stop it, Geoff Johns. You helped make him one of the most interesting Flash villains. Let him be that. Hopefully, his involvement is more recurring antagonist than grumpy team…

Clearly SNL will just do a whole show on her one scene from The Social Network, because America's favorite comedian Justin Timberlake is in it.

[Ron points to poster in his office]
Bobby Knight!

As an Indiana native, this is the first I'm hearing of the pronunciation of Milan, and I hate it and I reject it.

Caroline isn't advocating replacing Jarvis mid-stream. She's saying an alternate (potentially even better) version of the pilot might have put a different person in that basic role. Also, nothing says that person couldn't still have basically been Jarvis as on the page, even if we would never have gotten to see James…

It would take, like, two five-minute scenes in a nearly six-hour season, presumably to deliver mostly exposition they need anyway but was given by a white dude instead. It's no problem at all. Especially if you go with the outside-the-office suggestion, so she's still super-alone at the SSR.

Off the top of my head: "They need to find a way to better integrate Ann into the story." "Why is Jason Biggs still on this?" "They should drop the workplace and focus on the family dynamics (or vice-versa)" "I wish this New York show had cast one or more non-white people." These seem common.

I don't think it is. It's not asking for Peggy to necessarily even have prominent female coworkers. Mad Men shows Joan as plenty powerful and competent while leading the secretary pool, but I don't think anyone would say it doesn't portray the early '60s as sexist. A similar, if less visible/powerful, secretary figure…

Yep. "This is good, but it could be better in x and y areas" is kind of AV Club's bread and butter, at least in TV where mostly good or decent shows are the ones that are regularly covered.

She's contrasting "we've all fought" vs "fight for us now," which makes the first one sound like it's not "now" and makes the second one sound like it hasn't happened before. It pretends the feminist efforts of people of color, LGBTQ people, etc. don't exist while celebrating the efforts of women who've worked on…

I wish Annie Clark had been there for another Foam Corner. Whenever I
felt like listening to one of them, I always gravitated toward that one
for the extra hilarity her gasps added. Zach's supportive encouragement
was pretty great too.

bro

People whine about The Hurt Locker? People are very strange these days.

He definitely did the most recent time he did it, when he did blackface in 2012 A.D.

I thought Boyhood was pretty alright, but maybe my 25th favorite of the year. Do I have a half-soul?

The critic scene was rough. I think the writers just understood actors' BS way better than they understand critics' BS. Basically everyone in the movie (except Amy Ryan) is a self-important buffoon, but are allowed empathy, while the critic is a self-important buffoon who's allowed little to no empathy. She's too…

I have never known the "actual" in that specific phrase to be literal. It's just additional flair for the vulgarity.

KATAANG is the better sound effect, though.