Yes, that was quite apparent.

"Scold" is probably more a propos than "busybody," since the latter implies I'm peering over Vadim's fence and gossiping to his neighbor's about the holes he's digging in his backyard.

Yes, I can still post here, but that's presumably because it's an older article and thread. I tried to comment on the more recent article about Depp's Whitey Bulger film, saying that what Depp did to Kyril Bonefiglioni's charming, witty and fiendishly literate Mordtecai novels was a crime, and I got that notice.

Apparently this was considered abusive enough to get me "blacklisted from posting on this site," according to Disqus. C'est la vie, c'est la guerre.

Somebody didn't like it. Disqus tells me that I've "been blacklisted from posting on this site." Found that out just now when I tried to comment on the thread about Jonny Depp's Whitey Bulger movie (pointing out that what he did to Kyril Bonefiglioni's delightful and witty Mordedcai books is a crime). I'm guessing…

Interesting, I can comment here, but when I try to post in the thread about Jonny Depp's Whitey Bulger movie (pointing out that what Depp did to Kyril Bonefiglioli's Mortdecai books is a crime), Disqus tells me that I've "been blacklisted from commenting on the site in question." Hmm.

Somewhat belated, I recommend Genevieve Valentine's io9 review of this episode as far more insightful and better-written than this one. Mind you, I'm probably saying that because I agree with it.

Well, she's the heart and embattled soul of the show, and the best actor (although the cast is largely great), so it's not too surprising.

Mine too.

Two days with Amazon Prime. And since Vadim probably has a day job (no slight upon him; I just can't imagine a third tier AVClub gig is one's primary income), it might have taken him that long to watch the first four films.

The woman who may be the brilliant person I know, a cognitive neuroscientist who's attracted a lot of attention for her work with robots and the Uncanny Valley, adores Marina A, who she called her adoptive mom after meeting her. She (my friend, not Marina) is a stone rationalist/materialist, who shares my impatience…

I've already used the epithet "addlepated hipster stripling" for the reviewer who called this weeks's beautifully acted episode of PENNY DREADFUL, which plays Iike a bigger-budgeted answer to Hammer's "Cornwall" duology written by Alan Moore and directed by Mario Bava, derivative and momentum-killing. But it clearly…

Max gets more screen time than she does, and he gets to choose to walk away in the end, rather than be used without his knowledge as a decoy and abandoned by the side of the road, the way he is in THE ROAD WARRIOR.

Bass Reeves was awesome, if not exactly obscure to Western historians, whether amateur or professional. He deserves to be remembered for his place in African-American and Just Plain American history, not for the specious and completely unsubstantiated claim that he "inspired" the Lone Ranger, which seems to have been…

For Cthulhu's sake, you addle-pated hipster stripling, you're really comparing Vanessa's relationship to her mentor, let alone the masterclass in acting given bt Green and Lupone, to that of Luke and Yoda?

I enjoy VIKINGS, but my burly biker history buff friend despises it, saying the inaccuracies and stupidities make him want to to put his battle axe (yes, he really has one) through the TV. Yet he rather likes THE 13TH WARRIOR.

Are you sure that's what it was? I don't recall if the movie does, but the novel makes it a plot point that the Rus have been to Byzantium as traders and mercenaries and that they wear armor scavenged or bartered from a variety of cultures. A history buff friend was impressed by the shield play, and how the film…

On the old Larry King radio show in the 1980s, Richard Dreyfuss said he wanted to play Ibn Fadlan, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Beowulf character. He would've been closer to the books's protagonist than Antonio Banderas, who is too dashing. So would Tony Shaloub.

I felt that way when I was 23, which may be the optimum age for being impressed by the Nolan films or becoming a fan of Frank Miller. Now, while I still respect "Born Again" and Batman: Year One (the latter more for Gordon's arc than Bruce Wayne's), I find most grimdark stuff a very clumsy version of "maturity",…

Many things don't occur to the AVC's Dowdiest reviewer. He's their Gleiberman.