Pretty sure this is just the short cut of Under the Skin.

I'm a card-carrying queer feminist and this Ghostbusters was uncomfortably misandrist to me. All of the men are fools, there's no sympathy for the bad guy even though all he's apparently done is weird people out his whole life, and all of the sexual harassment of Chris Hemsworth crossed the line for me. This wasn't…

For a second I thought Netflix had reached into my subconscious and pulled out my perfect plan to make themed mixtapes of specific episodes of TV shows. For instance, Christmas specials of sitcoms, best queer romantic episodes, things to make people feel better when they're sick or depressed or going through a…

All these subscriptions services is why my nuclear family still shares passwords long after we kids graduated college. I cannot wait to see the impact of this news on the TCM festival I'm going to this week. We AV club-ites are film nerds, but not compared to the people at the TCM festival. Anticipating either…

I get that they made her lover a jazz singer because of Xo and singing, but it's such a bummer because she had real female lovers! #WeCouldHaveHadHistoricalGayVisibilityButYouPlaying
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Oh thank goodness (although my instinct is that said haircut will occur in a traumatic way, so maybe thank badness). I read Outlander after watching the first season. I'm holding off on the rest because while Diana Gabaldon created interesting characters and plot, I think Moore is the more technically competent…

Poor Mary Hawkins. Either terrible things are going to happen to her, or because she's just a timid little scrap of a thing with no fight in her, Randall is going to force himself to have sex with her once and never touch her again because she's not interesting.

I agree. It's a little more rushed in the book, and I think the series is treating Jaime more compassionately and realistically. Faith is really important in the books in a way it isn't in the series. I dont remember completely clearly, but Claire has kind of a come to Jesus moment, there is a legitimately scary angry…

Technically, I know this episode was good and character development is an interesting and mature way to tell a story, but goddamnit, I just want Claire and Jamie to be happy and banging again. And Jamie needs a haircut. His period-accurate hair looks too much like mine now and it's freaking me out.

Some diabetic pee tastes like sugar. Tasting it was a normal diagnostic test until the 20th century. But yes, gross.

For anybody in LA, this is showing next Thursday as part of the TCM film festival.

Selfish as it may be, I'm hoping Tig Notaro and he are friends and she'll help him get through it and back to comedy. I want him to take care of himself and his daughter first, but I hope it doesn't mean his career is over, like Rick Moranis' effectively is.

This week. If there's anything up there, Satan has definitely got the upper hand right now. Not just the celebrity stuff, but one of the centers of my college community got killed in a car crash in freaking Hobbiton, New Zealand. She was a cancer researcher and founded a wonderful philanthropy program, and was one of…

This might not be the place to discuss it, but I feel so sorry and sad for Patton Oswalt and his daughter. I like him because he's funny, but also because he's compassionate and human when he talks about depression. You couldn't help but root for him. His wife and daughter seemed so essential to him feeling more…

Actually, has anyone read the Patricia C. Wrede novelizations of the prequels? I've read the adult novelizations (seriously, they're good. There's all this interior emotion for Windu, Obi-Wan and Yoda that makes the Jedi much more compelling than in the movie, and it's easier to skip over the grating romantic parts).…

I can tell that this is an obvious troll, and yet I can't resist it. All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again.

I'm not sure. There was definitely something where she punched the ground and hurt things from a distance.

I like that model, but it doesn't hold up when you compare Who to comparable, long-running, light genre American stuff like Buffy, Angel, Eureka, Warehouse 13 or, god forbid, Supernatural. All of those shows have some absolute duds in every season.

To twist that metaphor, the third time your teenager crashes the kingdom, you're supposed to take away the goddamn keys!

Yes, but we paper over it with melting pot rhetoric, de facto segregation, racist populism and, when all else fails, the American dream or race riots