Quick note to anyone who may be on the fence about buying a ticket: “Asteroid City” is excellent. The unorthodox framing device may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but (with a few intentional moments) it doesn’t distract at all from the strength of the central story. 

He’s terrific in a small role in that movie, as is Ford and just about everyone else.

He talks about that in the special.

Oh for the halcyon days of around 2009 or so when studios and stars DID answer the AV Club’s requests for comment.

Oh that tweet was 100% an attempt to get the band to invite him onstage. I'd put money on it. 

To this day, I can't believe they put that gag in the trailers. 

Chris Thompson over at Defector spoke about the reasons this crap gets made a year or so ago when discussing the Space Jam sequel:
“Space Jam 2" may be the apex, but it’s hardly alone in being a piece of art whose primary entertainment factor is simply providing the audience with stuff we’re familiar with, and…

This is as good a place as any to remind everyone that the original “Beastmaster” with Mark Singer is a silly but enjoyable romp.

I don’t know enough about the current (or old) status quo of twitter discourse to say much about it, but I do know enough to laugh at the the absolutely trash sub-AliExpress, As-Seen-on-TV reject products being hawked in twitter ads over the past several months. This is some shit that late-night basic cable advertiser…

My favorite Greg moment, a great example of both his resourcefulness and his oafishness, was when he shredding all those documents on Thanksgiving. On one hand, he’s sharp enough to realize that keeping some of those papers will pay off for him someday. On the other hand, he’s dim enough to take the time to make…

One of my favorite pastimes of the last few months is reading Succession takes by people who fundamentally do not understand the show. 

Was this the first episode of Succession you’d ever seen?

You’re going to fucking love it. Wake up early, early enough to get to the park long before sunrise - and bring warm clothes or a blanket to wrap yourself in (it’s Hawaii in summer, but it’s still nighttime on a mountain.) Once you find parking, just follow the eerie red glow in the sky until you get to an observation…

That’s a very kind way to put it - and it’s not wrong - but it’s also only a small part of the whole. The problem wasn’t their hearts on their sleeves, it was their hearts being stapled over everything, obscuring the new movies/shows/whatever for their actual quality, deciding instead to judge them based on the thing…

I have fond memories of Beast Wars, because its ambitions managed to elevate what should have been a grade-F show. But it’s worth noting that said elevation still only brought the show to maybe - maybe - a C+ at its best.

I think the theme here is “buy a ticket based on its connection to a show you remember liking, not by the movie’s actual quality.”

Where did Ken lost Shiv? Honestly it probably just dissolved over the course of the day after she woke up that morning and the glow of sibling bonding wore off. But if there was a moment, it might’ve been when Ken started talking in the board meeting and immediately behaved like an impatient little shit instead of…

Trying to top Corncob TV is the sort of thing that can doom an artist. It's like Axl Rose constantly trying to get people to stop saying Appetite for Destruction is the best GnR album. That level of self-inflicted pressure is crippling. 

I’m also interested in seeing who’s funding Chris Christie’s campaign.

Heck yes!