I'd say the cops and the kazoo help facilitate the humor, which is in service to a larger project that Craven's been fairly consistent about insisting is there (as opposed to, say, Romero, who's kind of wavered on the ideological investments in Night of the Living Dead).

I'd argue the humor in Last House is used to facilitate identification with the Stillos, starting with the first time the viewer encounters them. A radio news bulletin tells the audience that Krug is considered armed and extremely dangerous just as he takes a lit cigarette and pops a little kid's balloon (the kid is…

I've had a hopeless crush on her going back to her brief stint playing Kathy, Joey's and then Chandler's girlfriend on Friends. She had her hair cut short, which I've been a sucker for ever since seeing Louise Brooks films as a kid, and her character was the same smart + funny + independent type she has since…

Siiiiiiiiigh.

Gotcha. Yeah I actually have to admit I feel out of touch in that I didn't realize how influential Day is.

I feel like this has been the new normal around here for at least a year: identical comments all going after the same low-hanging fruit (some of that is a function of people sorting by best vs. oldest vs. newest); lots of the same references, snowclones, and quotes; way more snark than before; lots of personal…

The Samantha thing is where they largely lost me… Something about spirits putting her soul to rest. I was so annoyed.

I wanted to like it, because of the people involved (including Billy Connolly), but it was a slog.

I understand, but that to me is the AVC overselling the significance of it (and I couldn't care less about Twitter, period, so I sympathize), whereas in the comments the vitriol is also often directed at Oswalt, himself—who used to be a darling of writers and commentors alike around here—and the reasons given are…

I played one of the PC versions using a simulator on my laptop awhile back. I just thought it'd be disingenuous to claim it when the NES versions are what I grew up with.

I have to admit I've never watched The Guild and I had to Google Hardwick because I forgot who he was.

I got yelled at by an AVC writer for suggesting that an Inventory had a click bait headline, so be careful.

I agree, though I think some of that is a carryover from the comments on the book review, which did get a little hairy in places, and that's probably coupled with a natural defensiveness for something one likes that's understandably exacerbated given that she's a woman who identifies with nerd or geek culture and has…

It wasn't so much the specific anecdotes as it was the answers to seemingly pretty open-ended questions in which she starts to answer then says she talks about it in her book and then kind of stops there.

Back in like 2008 I want to say Hershey's started substituting vegetable oils and other stuff for cocoa butter, and even fans of Hershey's were balking at how waxy and different tasting the new concoctions were.

1. I think he's funny, and I don't give a shit about Twitter, so I don't care if he makes an ass of himself there.

Shit. I meant David Simon, not David Chase. This got posted on Slate about the same time I was making that first comment—it's an interview with him in which he talks about the riots again:

That one I included because of the vitriol he received in the comments section of a story here about what he said during the Baltimore riots, and it kind of hit me that I had seen similar stuff posted about him here before, just not as pointed (as it was mostly about how curmudgeonly he is—and he *is*, but I find it…

Anytime a review is posted for one of her albums the vast majority of comments are lame jokes about Y Kant Tori Read? or her face lift. It's really sad, actually.

I like Eckhart and I was wondering whatever happened to him, so this comes as welcome news.