Smack that baby, make it pee! That's all I came here to say.

My 10 year old daughter had never seen a movie with such an epically bad ending, and we went to the theater (the week Carrie Fischer died to boot), and had a good cry. But then we went home and watched A New Hope, and it was a perfect lead-in. We both agreed that Rogue One added more weight and meaning to A New Hope…

Has anybody anywhere thus far addressed the Sarah Michelle-Gellar shaped elephant in the room, namely why she has never been a part of any of the "extra" Buffy stuff along the years? DVD commentaries & interviews, Paley center panels, cast reunions, conventions, and interviews such as these at the AVClub - are all…

To be fair, anytime the AVClub posts about Trump (or Sessions or Conaway), it ends up at the top of the "Most Read" ranking, so they're only playing to their audience. Complaining about it is like complaining about Kim Kardashian - ultimately fruitless because enough people out there willingly consume her brand. …

"Normal Again" was the episode that left me so pissed off it made me entirely question my love of Buffy. It just felt like a big middle finger to the those of us invested in the elaborately built Buffyverse to even suggest that it was all fake - like the St. Elsewhere snowglobe. If I do a rewatch, I always skip it…

So, I don't want to sound like a prude (I'm a grown-ass woman with a super healthy sex life), but what is the experience of watching a movie like this in a theater full of people? I can imagine not only cringing at the sex scenes, but also at how cheesy and unsexy the whole thing is. I've seen several posts on social…

You guys, I think I'm psychic. Just the other day I saw Buffy on Netflix and thought "The AVClub should have a good old debate about who was Buffy's best and worst boyfriends, for old time's sake." (in old-geezer voice)- Back in my day on the AVClub, the homepage was easier to navigate, we didn't have to login to…

Wait until you are in your 30s (or 40s or 50s) and you find out your girlfriend or your brother's wife, or your MOM is totally into 50 Shades. At least you don't have to wonder if your family is into whips and chains - or worse, can't tell the difference between healthy BDSM and emotionally abusive bullshit.

Love Sufjan Stevens, but I can't deal with all the bleeps and bloops on "Impossible Soul" - to each his own I guess, but he did do my favorite Christmas album - only a couple months before we can start listening to that again!

Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely
Bjork - All is Full of Love
Tori Amos - China
Arcade Fire - No Cars Go

I get super irritated when I get an invitation from an acquaintance to an MLM "party" - the implication being that I am not a good enough friend of yours to be invited out to a normal social occasion, but you can invite me to your party for your financial gain (hostesses get gifts for all the sales made off their…

"To teenage me, Home Improvement represented everything lame about “mainstream” culture, and that my classmates would pick it over The Simpsons or Seinfeld only confirmed what unsophisticated rubes they were. It’s like they didn’t even read my sneering op-eds! At the time, I despaired, it seemed Home Improvement was…

The early ads for this show leaned heavily on the "Bull is a smarmy maverick who uses his jury tampering magic to influence trial outcomes" but I think the idea that justice could be so easily miscarried by a douchey dude in a suit didn't sit well with people (I saw the commercial and thought I have no interest in…

I would try these before any of the new "flavors" Lays keeps trying to make happen here in the US. I tried the "Brazilian Picanha" flavor that was supposed to taste like chimichurri steak kabobs and 3 or 4 chips in my husband informs me they taste like steak - like the irony, bloody inside of a steak - and that's all…

Lol sometimes I wonder if the avclub writers relish the storm of nerd arguments they unleash in the comments with every comic book/star wars/etc article they post. Like someone throwing a piece of meat into a pack of rabid dogs and just backing away to survey the carnage from afar, with a slow satisfied smile…

When is season two of You're The Worst going to be added? GRRRRRR

"In a sequence no one who sees Dirty Love will forget, no matter how badly they try, Rebecca goes to the supermarket to buy maxi-pads but menstrual blood is already seeping out of her body and onto the supermarket floor in massive quantities. As the supermarket floors get bloodier and bloodier, Rebecca isn’t just in…

I think there's a difference between thrillers/horror movies that are meant to be escapism (and can be quite frightening as such), and movies that are more realist/disturbing and hit closer to home (and just make you miserable to watch them). Misery is a different feeling from fright. Besides, this whole "study"…

BLR has changed the way I watch football - every time the camera pans to players/coaches talking on the sidelines I wonder what the BLR people are going to do with it. And Twilight BLR FTW.

Booooooooooooooooooooo. That is all.