Back in 1988, when Sinead O'Connor, Tracy Chapman, Melissa Etheridge, and other female singers started getting a lot of attention, I always thought Toni Childs was the best of all of them, and should have gotten more attention. She had an amazing voice (and looked nothing like she sounded). She had a limited output…

They also do two great cover versions of Frederick Knight ("Be For Real") and, of all people, Barry White ("Can't Get Enough of Your Love") in the movie "Beautiful Girls." When I first got the soundtrack, I played those songs over and over.

Like several of the AV Club staff, I had very overprotective parents, and this being before we became members of a video store, it wasn't possible for me to sneak to the store and rent something, so I didn't see my first R-rated movie until I was 17 or 18, and the only reason I got to see it was because it was for…