Tom “I write stuff on this site, too!” Breihan’s Number Ones column over on Stereogum deserves to be read regularly (even though the list is currently mired in a generally dull stretch,) but this one is particularly relevant:…

Rabin’s post-AV Club writing has been hit-or-miss, but he’s prolific enough these days that his hits are still pretty frequent. Still, I almost wish he'd ease up on the throttle a bit to put more time into his bigger essays. 

Several of which have been covered here. 

At least he's not Chris Tucker

Seeing that movie after only hearing about it being a “bold, fake documentary” was fucking terrifying. I never realized how dark a movie theater can get until the screen started going totally black. We walked out of the theater following an afternoon show into bright summer sunlight, and everyone just kind of stood…

Oh good. "That" guy is here. 

In 1998, Warner Brothers held their 75th anniversary film festival at the Fine Arts theater here in Chicago: 7 days full of Warner films, each day a different decade. I bought a pass and managed to see 3-5 movies per day. It was one of the best weeks of my life, and it contained the single greatest moviegoing…

You have every right to guard your private life and defend your own decisions as there’s a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that’ll be a home run. And so that’ll make it a 4-0 ballgame. I don’t know if you'll be respected ever again.

It reminds me of the scene in “Looper” where the characters practically turned to the audience and told us not to worry about the time travel paradoxes. Sometimes you just gotta buy into a story’s conceit. Toys are alive, but they have weird rules? OK. Time travel exists? OK. The world ia frozen, but a train is…

From what I remember, The Sopranos was set to end after season 4, and you can really see David Chase gearing up for it as season 3 concluded (my friends and I joked that watching that season’s finale was like watching someone slowly load a gun; every scene was another bullet in the clip.)

What’s the going rate for copy/pasting a press release and adding one or two descriptive sentences?

Better.

Also typical of Fincher is its exceptionally evocative opening credit sequence. 

Disney without kids is - no exaggeration - an entirely different experience. It’s not even the same place.

ShockG/DU have no equal, no peers, but I always felt his superb combination of talent, musical ability, and exuberant goofiness had a lot in common with the B-52s. Both groups had their own offbeat sounds and looks, and (most importantly) they didn’t do it in an effort to stand out in a crowd. They did it because…

I loved so much of this movie until the last 20 minutes or so, when the film’s stressful-yet-still-sorta-genial approach to dealing with mental illness in everyday life was summarily chucked out the window in favor of embracing full-on ridiculous rom-com tropes like “love conquers all (and is certainly more important…

I’d never heard that “Same Gang” song before, and G absolutely kills it with sharp lyrics and that wicked shift in beat (I wonder how hard he had to fight to be the one guy who got to switch it up?) Kinda surprisingly, the song as a whole isn’t bad either. No one else is really great, but everyone brings it. It’s also…

I’ll put “I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom” up against anything Bob Dylan ever wrote.

Man, I loved that shit. It's so corny, but every piece of it is sincere. 

As soon as Breihan mentioned "Alice in Wonderland," my heart sank as I feared it might've been the #1 movie of 2010. Thank god it was not. Now let's never speak of it again.