Aaaaah .... love reading the comments here, and umpteen other posts, where an unreleased, barely glimpsed film gets crapped on and called DOA without watching the film proper, bolstered by Correct Opinions on How the Film Should Be. Breathe it in folks, that’s evergreen!

Whoa, wait, Katherine Helmond* (aka Mona from Who’s the Boss? and Jonathan Pryce’s facelift-crazy mom from Brazil) was in this as Tarantino’s mom? Way to bury the lede!

(*RIP)

Dear AV Club:

Please precede any article like this with the all-caps tag “SLOW NEWS DAY.”

Thanks,

It’s not Wall-E or Incredibles level, but it’s solid and had more than a few inspired moments (including the finale discussed here.)

(SPOILERS)

In no particular order, I loved:

- The highway sequence involving the attack by the pixie biker gang
- The bit where Ian and Barley disguise themselves as the cop (yes, sigh) that…

I’m guessing the fact that it’s a day celebrating the end of slavery, in a country still predominantly controlled by a white supremacy-based power structure, is probably why it’s not widely heard of until very recently.

Yeah ... was ... how was that not mentioned in this write-up? (Semi-rhetorical question, I guess.)

But yeah ...

Got a wild hair after COVID hit and bought a projector to watch movies with and scratch that “watching a film projected on a screen in a darkened room” itch.

Decided the first movie to watch this way was The Vast of Night. Watched it late at night while a storm raged outside. Absolutely transported to that place. So…

***SPOIILERS FOR Fringe***

One of the show’s masterstrokes was, after season 1, to turn Peter from not only a “Scully” into a “Mulder” (he was tiresomely a “non-believer” in season 1, creating predictable, lazy conflict), but then making him like, the central mystery of the show for most of the rest of its run.

Again,…

“For an ’80s comedy, Back To The Future has aged remarkably well. One of the big plot moments revolves around an attempted rape, but Biff Tannen is the story’s villain; he’s supposed to be an irredeemable shitbag.”

But … recall that that only happened because Marty’s plan to get this parents together was to pretend…

Absolutely buried the lede of Kevin Allison in BDSM gear with accessories.

OK, now I need to go and see if they edited or cut the scene where (spoilers for Splash?):

- One of Euguene Levy’s research assistants, who’s kind of a mean idiot if I recall, suggests to the other assistant that they “pee down the airhole” while Levy’s Prof. Cornbluth is scuba diving
- John Candy quoting Swedish porn…

This is such a haunting, dread-filled show, and I can’t tear my eyes away from it. (And I’m reminded of Zach Grenier’s similar role in the first season of 24, but he’s dialed up the menace here by a lot.)

My theory, having only seen episode 1 (SPOILER ALERT)....

 Never not relevant:

OMG I remember the “gloves filled with cement” one

I’ve been a huge word nerd all my life—I bought crossword/word puzzle magazines as much as I did toys—and I remember reading this particularly mystery and thinking “Cool idea!” and then thinking, “Wait ... that’s ... not a thing people do in real life.” Like, unless the hint-dropping kid really, really emphasized…

I lulzed for real

Maybe, it’s never always just been comedy. And I’m not complaining about the shift; it’d be like going to a pizza place that slowed morphed into a place some pizza but most really good sushi. It's different but still awesome and worth it.

In your The Good Place preview, “giants” is supposed to be “Janets,” right?

With a Deadpool cameo no less! Sort of.