Right before. That’s one of the things they discuss at the donut shop. Which also means that at this same time, Whiplash is working on robot soldiers and his own power armour in Justin Hammer’s lab. With his nemesis Tony Stark now dead and the world being enslaved by aliens, Anton Vanko might be a potential recruit…

I forget if Rhodey stealing the War Machine suit happened before or after the donut scene, but in any event at that point I’d bet that Tony had a contingency program in Jarvis to turn it over to him, so he’d be a possible core Avenger in that case.

She was right though.  Regular Loki bought the lie that a neverending infinity of multiversal black hat kidnappings and murder was okay as long as a bunch of Kangs don’t show up.  He was effectively arguing to her that at least under Kang the trains run on time.  I assume the next season will be him realizing how…

...let’s be honest, even the original Reservoir Dogs had its racist moments.

There’s a couple issues happening here. First “blasphemy” just means “didn’t show proper respect for my made up belief system” and that’s an audience problem, not a film maker problem. Next, I would have thought Europe was beyond worrying about sex scenes, but perhaps it’s only in conjunction with the inanimate object…

I miss that look but I see why it’s not practical. Even a cheap off-brand wooden barrel is going to cost a hobo more than a set of clothes.

My biggest problem with her reaction is that she went crying to the Chinese government to censor or ban the movie (which of course they did). How about you let people see it themselves and make up their own minds about it?

I was around her age when my dad died I don't remember anything about him. What I know I learned from family members. Maybe her family never told her about his flaws. 

Yeah thats something I keep going back to.  She was 4.  I have only the vaguest of memories when I was 4.  Certainly not enough to tell much about a person.  I understand family is family but... there are people alive who knew him better. 

I hope that one of these days Marvel will take these reviews to heart and finally make the quiet, contemplative film everyone is supposed to be asking for but does not want to see

You call them the “Summers family,” like, half a dozen times, but you also mention Summer, so. . . do you think her name is Summer Summer, or Summer Summers?

I kind of hated this episode simply because it bored me. It’s a 2-minute concept gag repeated and stretched out to 22 minutes, and most of the variations aren’t funny or interesting enough to justify the exercise. The chaotic escalation doesn’t matter once you understand the premise that whichever version of the…

Goddamn that takes me back to high school. Xvid and 700mb CD-Roms. Fuck yes we thought we were the edgiest motherfuckers in the world because we had American Pie 1 and 2, Fight Club and the South Park movie on CD-ROMS.

I suggest a Kickstarter. By which I mean we should start kicking Morrisey and never stop.

As a great admirer of the Smiths and his early solo work, I take no pleasure in saying that yes, Morrissey has demonstrated time and again that he is a racist prick and he deserves to be shunned. Unlike Ellie Kemper, you hacks.

“I feel like I just ran into Lena Dunham in the bathroom at a gay bar.”

Is there no gay man at the AV Club who could write an article about queer casting in the only movie my gay ass has been excited about since 1997? I feel like I just ran into Lena Dunham in the bathroom at a gay bar. Artie could be the love child of Blaine Edwards and Antoine Merriweather and he still wouldn’t be as…

There were at least half a dozen times in the theater during Avengers that the whole crowd was just electrified and totally on the same page with how awesome what we were seeing was. Off the top of my head:

If only he could have learned to wrestle...

As ridiculous as this all may seem for an action movie star to be held to the diplomatic standard of a presidential candidate