Sure, except when it is. Because nine times out of ten, the next sentence out of the dude's mouth is something along the lines of, "A girl as pretty as you should never be sad."

I think Lolita is one of those novels that's well-nigh unfilmable (at least in a way that's faithful to the source). Both because so much of it is wrapped up in Humbert's internal monologue and his unreliable narration, and—at least for me, personally—the sexualization of children is so much more obvious (and…

Yeah, Hillary's campaign has always treated Sanders as a serious threat, even when nobody else was.

The high points in their relationship are when they're essentially both—towards the end of season one where they have crazy sexual tension but she still doesn't know if she can trust him, or in season two when they're not talking and then he drunkenly busts out with that "I thought our story was epic" line. (I can…

I hate Gilmore Girls shipping arguments because every single romantic pairing Rory had was a shmuck. Rory + Paris forever.

You've Got Mail breaks one of the fundamental rules of rom-coms, which is that if you're going to do the I-hate-you-wait!-I-love-you plot, then you have to show both characters changing to meet in the middle. We see Ryan's character's path to the middle, but we don't see Hanks'.

Not quite a remake, but . . . the first time I saw The Apartment, I was immediately struck by how Almost Famous is basically an homage to it—the setting is changed and the ending is tweaked, but otherwise they're just about the same story, beat for beat.

S is kind of a stacked letter. I can't really argue with Say Anything, but off the top of my head, I can't really choose between The Shop Around the Corner, Sabrina, and Sleepless in Seattle for runner-up, and I'm sure there's more I haven't thought of.

I'd also count it as more of a drama than a comedy.

Yeah, Pretty Woman is at least of deserving of runner-up status. It's a much better (and more coherent) film than Pretty in Pink, despite whatever qualms you might have about its messages.

It was also the codifier of the "uptight career bitch meets a slacker who teaches her to chill out" trope, and launched a thousand terrible imitations, but I'm not sure it can really be held responsible for them. It engages with the concept relatively responsibly compared to most of the ones that came later—at least…

Because the Academy loves that stuff?

So by this argument, do women make up 22 percent of the country, or 33?

I don't want to be that weirdo that is constantly recommending that everybody read The Gift of Fear (disclaimer: I have never actually read The Gift of Fear), but . . . read it, or at least read the summary or something.

1) "The Holiday" is an invented construct, and as such . . . things are what you make of 'em. When I was single I made cupcakes for my friends and told them how much I loved them and took jugs of Carlo Rossi to pass around at lit mag meetings, and those are some of my best Valentine's Day memories of all time. Now…

Kanye not?

Seriously, a lot of people seem to get confused about this— they don't see a lot of support for a candidate on the internet, so they assume that means that candidate doesn't have a lot of support. What it actually means is that their voter demographics are less likely to be on the internet (or just less likely to be…

Yeah, the A.V. Club's color scheme annoyingly makes links the same color as text so you don't know they're there unless it's specifically pointed out.

Click the link—it specifically has a video of one of the coin flips that Sanders won.

During Hillary's second term in the Senate, she was more liberal than Obama, as liberal as Warren, and voted with Sanders 93 percent of the time. She's already moved substantially to the left since Bill was president; I'm not sure why people don't expect her to sustain that.