I kinda hate all sides in this one

Since when were SNL live performances any good? It’s all the bad technical aspects of poorly mixed live recording with all the soul-sucking experience of watching the spirit of live performance over closed-circuit television.

Also, Boomer Rockers need to just shut up.

D & D strikes me as like Battleship where your two choices are to make it so generic that it’s basically a Lord of the Rings knock-off/generic “Navy men on boats” movie or so specific that it’ll be weird and potentially alienating to non-fans.

Personally, I think the second sounds more entertaining.

*one finger on a monkey’s paw curls in*

Alright, AV Club. Cards on the table: how big of a check do I have to write you for you guys to never do the “here’s a bunch of inane chatter from idiots on Twitter disguised as an article” thing ever again?

Jesus Christ. This sounds awful. Maybe Sam Levinson could simply not read his reviews. But it seems highly likely he reads all of them, and will be reading this one. So, if he makes it down to the comments, I’d just like to say- Hey, Sam. Don’t read your fucking reviews, buddy.

Everyone. You might want to sit down. Because this an uncomfortable truth. My advice is simply to lean into it, to accept your place in the universe. Ultimately to look your impending death in the face with joy.

One of the most baffling things about Cats to me is that Tom Hooper didn’t seem to actually read the lyrics to any of the songs, because there’s a running gag there that he utterly whiffs, and the gag is this: they’re cats. No, I’m not being an overly-obvious jerk. Hear me out.

I figured Cats the stage musical works in part because it doesn’t even try to convince you these are cats. They were Broadway stage singers and dancers, wearing impressionistic cat costumes, doing a Musical For You. When I was a kid in NJ, the commercials looked to me like PBS childrens’ theater. As a result, there…

In the 90's Counting Crows was Dad Rock immediately. 

Well, much like dads themselves, this track list appears to really run the gamut, quality-wise. But amazingly, yes, I can easily imagine every single song here being listened to by a dad while doing dad things (in the case of my dad, fixing things around the house and being emotionally unavailable).

The charge of the Rohirrim is, to this day, one of the most amazing things I have ever experienced in a cinema. And a lot of that is that Jackson, gobsmackingly, figured out how to correctly use a brand new type of f/x technology (computer-generated crowds) perfectly the very first time he used it. The cutting from…

To be fair to Jackson, he knew The Hobbit should not try to replicate LoTR’s run time. It would have been doable as two 2-hour light adventure films, but the studio was determined to make another LoTR trilogy in both length and tone. Jackson only caved after several years of studio pressure and unholy financial…

The main criticism I repeatedly hear about Supernatural is that they always killed off the female characters, so it’s really hilarious and dumb that the show meant to be the next starring vehicle for one of the two brothers starts out with killing off a female character.

I would like to see this extended to the ‘Hey, somebody said something on Twitter’ Stories as well.

You never had to talk about him in the first place. You’re a pop culture website, nobody was coming here to hear about all the shit Trump did, especially since they could read about that on actual news websites. You could have been a refuge from the crap, instead you fed right into it.

36 year old men date 24 year old women all the time in the real world, so it in itself is not a problem. I just wish his response had been something along the lines of “the roles were written for their to be an age difference” or “the age difference is an intentional part of the dynamic between the characters” rather…

Watched A Clockwork Orange for the first time in maybe 30 years. Even more deranged than I remember it. Brilliant in some ways — the wink-wink tongue-in-cheek tone, the comically over-exaggerated mannerisms of Alex, Deltoid, the prison guard, the writer and so on, the sly little humorous bits constantly thrown out…

“And like When Harry Met Sally, Long Shot really sells the idea that its central couple actually like hanging out with each other, which should be a baseline for all romantic comedies but too often isn’t.”

If ten years ago you’d told me, “Hey, you know that guy from “Hot Rod” and Lonely Island? Turns out he’s a really good actor and in one of the best movies of 2020,” I’d have replied,” Pfft, yeah, sure, buddy. What are you gonna tell me next, that he’s married to Joanna Newsom or something?”