That sounds amazing. I have a bargain bin dvd set of 1&2 and need to check if that’s on there!

The Community ones were fun too (and the main reason why I bought the DVDs), though they also gave a peek into how working with Dan Harmon could be difficult. I remember him freaking out for a minute about the beat being slightly off on the musical holiday episode and being like, “yeeeesh.” I understand the feeling…

It was nasty fun! Just not particularly scary, save for a few sequences. I found it strangely soothing.

I enjoyed the soothing nature scenes of In A Violent Nature, dark humor, and ways it played with convention, but, yeah, I’m also itching for something that will really shake me. I’m trying not to read too much about this beforehand so I can’t really tell how scary it is (The Blackcoat’s Daughter was low-key but I got…

I mean, one element of X was how eerily similar Pearl and Maxine were in their personalities and of course looks. Not having seen the movie yet, I guess it’s too early to tell whether Maxine is delusional or not, but she comes off passionately unhinged in the trailers.

Stop it! I’m trying to temper my expectations!

And the person who responded to you was talking about the first movie—Into the Spider-Verse.

She does also communicate with her dead mother, but maybe that was from being submerged in the magic spider water.

Us strays gotta stick together

Hell yeah. Great to see more old AV Club features and writers return, and what a return for Rabin and My Year of Flops. Caught Madame Web once it hit Netflix (like a smart person) and this movie is hilarious and fascinatingly bizarre. Hard disagree with the linked AVC review from its release, it IS in the so bad it’s…

From what I’ve read and heard on podcasts, it was supposed to tie into the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man movies (which are Sony?) and take place in the 90s, with the villain trying to kill baby Peter Parker instead of the three teens. Then that got scrapped to try to make the concept work with MCU Tom Holland Spider-Man…

Her style worked well for the reluctant hero character in this weird movie though. I found her legitimately (and mostly intentionally) funny in this.

Caroline Siede/When Romance Met Comedy or gtfo (I know she’s of a later AVC era, but her writing was excellent)

Whoa, Katie Rife is back at AVC too?

Thank you. Was not aware of this either and was unclear on the premise of this movie.

I think they were just using Kinjafied as shorthand for “when the AV Club went downhill,” since that was the most visible change. And yep, the changes from the Gawker years are still heavily prevalent (which is what the original comment was saying), but there’s been glimmers of hope that they’re turning it around a…

Ah, right! It’s been several years since I watched Nosferatu and completely forgot about Hutter being Murnau’s equivalent of Harker. So I guess this one is really a remake of that version of the story. Makes sense as I vaguely recall reading years ago about the studio ironically locking down the rights to the unauthori…

You see, that one he was playing Dracula’s semi-willing servant, where this one he’s playing the… cuckold? This seems like a prequel of sorts, where he’s playing a Harker-esque character going through a similar situation before the events of the novel.

I’ve been listening to the Newcomers podcast where they’ve been covering Scorsese’s most well-known movies, and they’ve noted that a lot of them came out in December.

Agreed. I can see how an aggressive fan could take it as a dig towards Swift, but I read it as Grohl using the massive cultural phenomenon that is the Eras Tour as a jumping off point for his own musings. I’d take the “we actually play live” as being in comparison to pop in general (or other older rock bands?) before…