I've never quite understood the animosity for this film, although I suppose it's a question of expectations. If an anonymous director had made Family Plot, I think it would be praised as the delightful romp it is. Great performances and a reasonably clever story. It's nothing more than a fun way to spend a couple…

I like telling people that Tusk is what a million dollars worth of cocaine sounds like.

From the review: "She starts talking about how she knows Lana went snooping through her files … it’s not the kind of emotional honesty Lana is looking for (and who can
blame her?), so this time, she rejects Kalinda."

Stevie is the least interesting of the big three songwriters during Mac's hit years, IMHO, although I understand that she's the tops for many others (and I'm certainly not here to argue anyone out of their opinion.) That said, her voice is definitely something special — I may not favor the songs she sings lead on, but…

Oh, and one more observation about Tusk:
SHUT UP, STEVIE! Does anyone else find it odd that the one non-musician songwriter in the group writes by far the longest songs? There are 9 Lindsey songs on Tusk and only 5 by Stevie, but hers still take up more of the runtime. That's fucked up. (Oh, and for real masochists,…

Yep. Tusk is quite the glorious mess but Lindsey is the only real attraction here —
most of the McVie and Nicks tracks just sound like retreads — and just
about all of his 9 contributions are pretty great. "Tusk" remains one of the most gloriously strange hit singles in rock's history, "That's Enough For Me" really…

I can completely understand that the early stuff is far removed from the Fleetwood Mac that most folks know and love, but yikes does this review give it short shrift. The early Mac were one of the best "Chicago blues" bands around in their era. (And it's worth noting that Christine McVie — then still billed as…

I've always enjoyed the Maltin guides as reference books and have even used one for years to keep track of movies I've seen (which also led me to the quest to watch at least one film from every two-page thread, a goal which I believe I am less than 10 pages away from achieving) but they were pretty worthless as…

It's adorable how you come to this website and expect straight news instead of snark. Hilarious, even! What would we do without your deep, penetrating insight into the writing style of the AVClub?

I actually just finished watching the entire run of this show having not seen it since I was a mere pup. Thoroughly enjoyable but yeah, not much too it. (Hey, that DOES sound like another Carlton Cuse show…) Brisco is pretty much the whole show and Campbell carries it admirably. He really was perfectly cast. Lord…

I find the notion that Uma Thurman is a believable ass-kicker hilarious, to say the least. One of the reasons I disliked Kill Bill so much is how unconvincing she is as a badass.

I have a friend who is a 3rd or, as he prefers to call it, "the last".

I Was A Male War Bride is a pretty damn funny movie. (How is cartoonish a bad thing in a screwball comedy?)

I think the fact that this was where everyone seemed to be to hide during the ice storm sorta bears this out.

Um… what? I mean, I HOPE Scorsese has a "more mature view of filmmaking" than I do, given that he's a brilliant director and I'm just some guy who enjoys movies. But I'm not really sure what this has to do with my comment. I think asking why such a brilliant filmmaker was interested in making a sequel to a decades-old…

Who said my cat didn't like it? He loves making fun of Tom Cruise.

I don't think it's a particularly good film, but I agree that Tom Cruise actually acts in Born On The 4th Of July. Probably his best performance. But he's terrible in Vampire. (Haven't seen Magnolia or Tropic Thunder — I really just ignore Cruise movies for the most part.)

I've always wondered why Scorsese wanted to make this movie in the first place. I can understand wanting to work with Paul Newman and I can understand wanting to make a movie about pool hustlers, but why do a sequel to a movie that moviegoers brought in by the presence of Tom Cruise had likely never seen or heard of?…

If forced to choose a Charles, I'll take Durning over Grodin any day.

How anyone can think any Muppet movie — or really, just about any movie — is better than The Muppet Movie is baffling to me. I don't have a problem with Great Muppet Caper, but the original Muppet Movie is beyond charming, really earns its emotional moments honestly, and is fitfully funny to boot. And the songs are…