By the corpse of Stanley Kubrick. It took 245 takes for the damn kids to get that D&D game right.

Do I really need to respond to this? No, no I don't think I do. Please continue proving my point. You're assuming 1) it's a problem, 2) that sociological/political mechanisms implemented in part to be in service of racist ideologies (even though I'm not convinced that that's a significant facet of this case) have…

How dare you have a measured and rational view on this.

The Science Channel is one of the biggest televisual atrocities I've ever seen. The first year of its existence was awesome, and then it quickly descended into "the Blow Shit Up/Garish Engineering Channel". God what a disappointment.

How did this stay and mine get removed? Basic sarcasm seems to be lacking on the ol' AVClub… Imagine that.

YES!!!

Fuckin' right, well said Mary!

In the last analysis, HERZOG is actually Humbolt's greatest gift to Mr. Sammler's entire god damn planet.

My intro to this show, which I have only seen sporadic episodes of (I'll be rectifying that very soon), was the early episode "Charlie Wants An Abortion". That episode gave me that same feeling I felt the first time I saw THE DANA CARVEY SHOW as a kid, or saw particular second season episodes of LOUIE (especially…

I was late to the party on Bates Motel, and I'm glad I caught up with it, because Farmiga's performance is a knock-out. One of the major ways the show sticks the landing is by how much exquisite care the writers and performers take in slowly pushing Norma and Norman into their dysfunctions. So many twists come from…

Although you must be prepared in season 4 for the one-two gut-punch of Vera Farmiga being an item with Nestor Carbonell. Can one handle all that gorgeous in a single package?

Word by word, punctuation by punctuation, exactly what I and approx. 76534928 others in the Commentariat were about to write.

Bloodlust is a time-honored tradition in the arts.

Heh, that is uncomfortably accurate. I adored Civil War on almost every level, and yeah, it kinda took me back to being 8 years old playing with a mass set of my action figures. I suppose folks either see that as a bad thing or a good thing. I think if I was 10 years old and saw Civil War, my brain would explode at…

At the same time. It shall be the death of 'im!

What the fuck, 2016. Fuck you. I can't say anything else but "fuck". This is ridiculous.

Lawrence & Pratt sounds better methinks. Best damn porn duo in California!

Exactly. There is a rich culture of mistaking fiscal/economic issues for racial/sexual/identity-politics-in-general issues, due to a special kind of myopia. So this "controversy" isn't terribly surprising to me. Swinton comes off as somewhat tone deaf, but at least she was earnest, and her swift leak of the email…

This will be a very unpopular opinion around these parts, but I don't care:

Haven't they already lost most of it? Criterion started their own streaming service in just the last 4 weeks. It looks amazing, I'll be signing up once funds get better. (I'm getting rid of Hulu after this month.) The Criterion channel, called FilmStruck, will even have things like commentary tracks and special…