Ah, the moody, slowed-down, difficult-at-first-to-place cover song - truly the finest movie trailer trope ...

I’ve mildly considered making a fake Lizardo account as well and going around saying nothing but ingratiatingly saccharine, supportive things in The Root comments. Y’know, just to restore some balance.

In a deviation from the animated movie, Mulan doesn’t become a gifted warrior through the course of her training so much as gradually reveals her latent powers.

Full Bollywood treatment, rice truck suddenly parked in front of the Eiffel Tower for some reason.

Mostly because of the picture in my head of the Neighbour Aunt and the ambiguously gangster-like Manu, I’m picturing this as sort of a Bollywood Kung Fu Hustle.

If Biden somehow wins it’ll be in spite of the mindset behind cultural detritus like this.

It certainly sounds insufferable, and far too long, but the review does make me ever so slightly intrigued that they (at least some of the monologues) have found an interesting angle or two from which to approach the whole concept.

I’m really disappointed that they changed this to give Mulan special powers. One of the things I really liked in the original is that she becomes good by working really hard and by being clever, not by being born with special abilities. Chosen one stories have their place, but I like seeing emphasis put sometimes on…

It’s an example of a sadly prevalent phenomenon where the Twitter reaction to the first trailer still dictates the perception of a movie years after it came out and much of that criticism proved to be unfounded.

Just the way that Chinese focus groups prefer it, I guess!

The Great Wall didn’t have white-washing.  I do not know why that falsehood is still spread.

Fine, I’ll say it: Batman makes more sense as a black guy. The corruption and ineptness of most of the GCPD is way more reflective of the black experience of policing. Does the idea that you have to dispense street justice yourself because you’re not getting any help from the system really sound like the perspective…

Sam, I’m beginning to doubt your commitment to SparkleMotion.

Yeah, yeah, I know that everybody’s fond of the music they listened to in high school, but can’t somebody draw the line at “All the Small Things”? Punk so watered down it’d probably qualify as homeopathy. Hearing the line “surprises let me know she cares!” made me wanna punch something. The Starland Vocal Band would…

It has all the hallmarks of neu-AV...misleading headlines, rambling blocks of text, obligatory and irrelevant anti-trump comment in case we forgot.

Well, the headline of the article says its a Death Cab for Cutie song, and they included an image of Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard in the article teaser, so if you’re still wondering at that point if the linked video is a Death Cab for Cutie song I don’t know how else to explain it to you.

...so it wasn’t actually turned into a Death Cab for Cutie song then

Dearest A.V Club,

So, two things about the first letter. First:

Yeah, I don’t know what the ethics of an advice columnist are, but I feel like Dan should have been a bit more blunt on that one.

I realize that the answer to “How can I get this unfaithful and dishonest coworker out of his marriage without making him uncomfortable or jeopardizing our totally long-lasting and mutual…