What? A Sean O'Neal Newswire item related to The Office? I don't believe it! And it's dripping with world-weary sarcasm? I'm flabbergasted! Boy, leave it to the AV Club to keep things fresh after all these years! I don't know how they do it! Every day is a new adventure with this site!

What? A Sean O'Neal Newswire item related to The Office? I don't believe it! And it's dripping with world-weary sarcasm? I'm flabbergasted! Boy, leave it to the AV Club to keep things fresh after all these years! I don't know how they do it! Every day is a new adventure with this site!

You notice how the vitriol in this article seems slightly half-hearted? That's because this is secretly a sad day for Sean O'Neal. He's losing one of his favorite, surefire targets. In fact, haters, gripers, cranks, and crybabies across the Internet are in mourning today. The continued existence of The Office was one…

You notice how the vitriol in this article seems slightly half-hearted? That's because this is secretly a sad day for Sean O'Neal. He's losing one of his favorite, surefire targets. In fact, haters, gripers, cranks, and crybabies across the Internet are in mourning today. The continued existence of The Office was one…

I know it's a tradition at this site to treat low-budget exploitation pictures in a kind of dreary, snobbish, maiden-auntish kind of way, but this particular article leans so far in that direction that it reads almost like a very subtle, knowing parody of the AVC's unmistakable house style. I can imagine this being an…

I know it's a tradition at this site to treat low-budget exploitation pictures in a kind of dreary, snobbish, maiden-auntish kind of way, but this particular article leans so far in that direction that it reads almost like a very subtle, knowing parody of the AVC's unmistakable house style. I can imagine this being an…

I'd never heard of this movie until today, but the IMDb has the trailer and the featurette — both of which include full-frontal nudity and glimpses of torture, if that does anything for you.  I got bored with it after just a few minutes, and all the participants seemed pretentious in a dull, enervating way — except…

I'd never heard of this movie until today, but the IMDb has the trailer and the featurette — both of which include full-frontal nudity and glimpses of torture, if that does anything for you.  I got bored with it after just a few minutes, and all the participants seemed pretentious in a dull, enervating way — except…

Movies I like which seem to have inspired the most horrible knockoffs, in terms of sheer volume: Gremlins, Conan the Barbarian, Mad Max, and Airplane.

Movies I like which seem to have inspired the most horrible knockoffs, in terms of sheer volume: Gremlins, Conan the Barbarian, Mad Max, and Airplane.

Nathan,

Nathan,

Damn, this is sad news. This guy's writings about art made more sense to me than those of any other art critic. There was a special issue of Time magazine which consisted solely of photographs of art with Hughes' commentary. I must have read through it dozens of times. I took it on trips with me so I could browse…

Damn, this is sad news. This guy's writings about art made more sense to me than those of any other art critic. There was a special issue of Time magazine which consisted solely of photographs of art with Hughes' commentary. I must have read through it dozens of times. I took it on trips with me so I could browse…

I don't know if we're talking about the same interview, but I heard about a 20-minute stretch of NPR last night with Beverly Johnson and Carol Alt (along with a photographer who I think was the film's director) talking to Terri Gross. It intrigued me enough to actually click on this review. There wasn't any pronoun…

I don't know if we're talking about the same interview, but I heard about a 20-minute stretch of NPR last night with Beverly Johnson and Carol Alt (along with a photographer who I think was the film's director) talking to Terri Gross. It intrigued me enough to actually click on this review. There wasn't any pronoun…

Todd:

Todd:

Marah, you are being snidely dismissive of a report which uses valid musical terminology and actually makes a lot of sense. I realize that snide dismissal is now a prerequisite for all Newswire pieces (unless they're about a handful of sacrosanct AVC-approved artists), but I think you've missed the point entirely. The…

Marah, you are being snidely dismissive of a report which uses valid musical terminology and actually makes a lot of sense. I realize that snide dismissal is now a prerequisite for all Newswire pieces (unless they're about a handful of sacrosanct AVC-approved artists), but I think you've missed the point entirely. The…