American Dad is definitely one of the best animated comedies on TV right now. Plus it's probably not fair to refer to it as a "MacFarlane show" as there's been plenty of discussions here speculating how much MacFarlane is involved in American Dad beyond the voices due to its stylistic differences from Family Guy and…

I too clicked on this post just to look for Fluttershy's response.

And then suddenly all the "STAFF" boxes were gone…

So apparently the AV Club are just putting everyone on the "STAFF" nowadays.

The Wire
I'm always in the minority on this opinion but to me Season 5 of The Wire completely torpedoed what was great about the show. It went from a brilliant and plausible exploration of how institutions govern and destroy (very well-realised) individuals to a show where a cop cons an entire city and its…

I've got the first four Seasons of The West Wing on DVD and rate them as some of the best television I've ever seen, but purposefully stopped watching the show after Sorkin left. I'd heard about how it descended into "Crisis of the Week" territory after Sorkin left and that hack John Wells took over, and I didn't want…

I don't get the appeal of Weird Al as a parody song writer, as all the singles I've heard just seem to be lazy lyric-replacement exercises on the level of "Jingle bells, Batman smells" intelligence and most importantly aren't funny. Then again, some of the non-musical stuff I've seen of his has been very funny so…

I only remembered The Ramones being in it because it features a great bit with Thurston Moore wearing sunglasses and driving around in a golf cart screaming, "Hi, I'm Joey from The Ramones!" at random strangers.

A future where every show requires product placement could prove a bit tricky for period/costume dramas.

Devil's Rejects and Wolf Creek
This is a looooooong time after this blog was posted, but what the hell…

Darth Vader with a thick cockney accent?

I thought HBO had briefly contemplated turning Preacher into a series. That could work - if they've got any costumes left over from Deadwood they could probably sort out the Saint of Killers quite quickly at least.

I guess the only problem is that as Kick-Ass was independently financed, it technically was produced despite the Hollywood studio system not because of it, and therefore is actually an "independent" film.

This is all kinds of surreal - a comment about audience sympathies has split into a discussion about why a Harvard grad failed to understand a Bill Hicks' quote and whether viruses are technically alive, and if so, how we can make shoes for them.

Should probably clarify that by "communicate" I mean that Rob Zombie fails to justify why the audience should share his love of the Firefly clan - they come across as shrill and annoying bullies, lacking the enigmatic or even charismatic qualities any decent anti-heroes should possess. At least LAC attempts to give a…

Devil's Rejects
The comparison with "Devil's Rejects" is apt, as both movies appear to want you to root for the death-dealing avenger (the sheriff in Rejects, and Butler in LAC) but then towards the end of the film suddenly decide that you should be rooting for the targets of the revenge instead (Foxx and the Firefly…

Mr Pierce, even though I'm still mildly pissed off with you for insulting Tool, I have to say that comeback was truly magnificent.

When I first read the headline I thought it said "Cumfest".

Apparently, Adolph, you are unaware that no-one fucks with the Jesus.

"Joel Schumacher has had one of the odder careers in Hollywood history. He entered the… costume designer, …became [a] prolific… movie buff… killing franchise… and… dumped onto… [a] recently imprisoned… German immigrant family. Living… with an obnoxious Nazi… [Schumacher] uses… blood… to keep himself alive until he can…