10 year olds in 2000 didn't trust and love their families and closest friends?
Glad I was raised in the '70s, I guess.

Yes, we sold day old popcorn at normal price because massive corporations are run by terrible penny-pinching assholes. Hence my warning above, as I assume that practice is still going on today at movie theaters all across the nation.

I am perplexed by viewing Danny's naivete as a criticism.
Of course he's naive. He was raised by monks in another dimension! He spent 15 years completely detached from the world being trained for a very specific purpose that has exactly nothing to do with how people in modern NYC behave and what their motives are. How…

No, I'm not a fan of all that anchovy.

Of course we did.
At the end of the night, we scooped the popcorn into a bag, cleaned the machine, and then in the morning the bag was emptied back into the machine.

Pro-tip from my days of making popcorn at the theater I worked in high school :
Make the popcorn IN the buttery-flavored topping (instead of the oil.)
That was good stuff…

"You'll never taste the anchovy" says the person who loves anchovies.
Trust me, I'll taste the anchovies.

More like "Sad Life, Internet!" amirite?

As someone raised Jewish who generally thinks he has a pretty in-tune Jew-dar, I don't think I've ever once thought of Roseanne as seeming Jewish. More than anyone else I've ever met, her sitcom persona reminds me of the mother of one of my best friends from high school, who was Irish Catholic.
Worth noting, I think:…

Yep. Having the same issue.
They just keep rolling out more new features! How exciting, amirite?

No idea if this has been brought up elsewhere and/or where I should be posting it but I've just discovered a new "feature" of the new Newswire commenting function: I can't comment there anymore! Hooray!
As soon as I click on the comment button, I get logged out and cannot log back in as my login is only valid @AVClub…

I enjoyed the second half of Luke Cage more than most folks seemed to as well. Always struck me as strange that the complaint seemed to be that Diamondback was too, y'know, cartoony or comic bookish. I enjoyed the more grounded in reality elements of the show too but just don't get why larger-than-life, over the top,…

He brings a bunch of cool backstory and supporting characters that Marvel doesn't have the rights to anymore.

Believe me when I say, I am genuinely glad you don't have the same reaction to Heston I do as it means you can enjoy more films than I can. I've tried watching Will Penny and had to stop because I think he's so terrible, for example. At this stage of my life, the only Heston film I am ever willing to watch is Touch Of…

You're being generous.
He was a pretty terrible actor.
Not terrible enough to automatically sink otherwise enjoyable films but plenty terrible to sink the majority of movies he was expected to carry on his "charms" alone, which is most of his filmography.

Figuring I'd made a mistake, I scrolled up and clicked on the comments box at the top of the John Goodman story (the 1st time, I clicked on the bottom one) and ended up here yet again.
Boy howdy, what an improvement over the old system!

I clicked to make a comment on the "John Goodman and Sara Gilbert had a mini-Roseanne reunion on The Talk"
thread and ended up here.
I love this new system!

"Maybe I should rewatch Shaft’s Big Score"

Counterpoint: I "discovered" it, listened to it a dozen times, asked all my friends if they'd heard it, if they said "no" I played it for them, sometimes two or three or seven times straight through. If they said "yes" we threw it on and listened to it together, discussing why we loved it and pointing things out that…

As much as I hate looking like I'm defending Trump, "bigly" is most definitely a real word. It's the adverb form of "big" and it's been in pretty much every dictionary forever. Sure, nobody ever says it, but then nobody ever says embrocate, speluncar, kistvaen, or patibulary, either, and those are all real words too.