Credit where credit is due, eh?

My hero. 

Yeahhhhh....no. I’m a Lizzo fan, but this isn’t a good performance at all. She’s off all over the place. It’s super-rough throughout, but *especially* at the climax. Which, you know, as much as we all love “Shallow,” maybe this isn’t the song for her. And that’s cool. For years, I used to try to sing, “La Isla Bonita”…

>The long montage of scenes in Captain Marvel where men are constantly
>telling her she’s not good enough until she throws off the shackles of
>male oppression was...
>
>Dumb.

Revisiting the MCU films in the run-up to Endgame, I’ve come to the conclusion that First Avenger is a pretty underrated film. It doesn’t *quite* have the rhythm Marvel would hit down the road, but it has all the heart, a lot of really good performances, and a rock-solid pace. It deserves better shrift than it’s…

There’s truth to that, but I think, as with most things in the societal discourse, it’s worse now because of the Internet and social media than it was during the days of the Satanic panic (and I say that as someone who lived my childhood through it). The intensity of it, the dispersal of it, and the ability of real,…

As someone else said: Buy a testing kit. You can order one that comes with three different reagents. You put three little bits of your MDMA on a plate, or something, and dropper a drop of the appropriate reagent onto each one. Depending on what color it turns (most testing kits come with a handy color chart), you’ll…

Oh, FFS. Lighten up, Francis. 

Oh, probably direct it at sports columnists who suggest that my very real hate for Duke is somehow performative.

I have recurring nightmares about zombie apocalypse and generally avoid entertainment having to do with it that isn’t the original Dawn of the Dead.

“Ghouls.”

I have immense sympathy for what Zack Snyder has been through on a personal level. No one should have to endure that.

I think there’s truth to what you say, but I also think part of it is down to good ol’ capitalism. The incorporation of what one likes into one’s identity has always been a part of being a geek/nerd, but once it started to become big business, all these media companies used their marketing muscle to kick it into…

A friend of mine and I were commenting recently on how insane it is that, other than actual politics, sci-fi/fantasy has become the most violently intense arena for political conflict in the American cultural landscape.

This is the best news/this is the worst news.

That’s fair, but my counter would be that there is a whole world of propaganda disguised as entertainment out there, across various forms of media, and yet The A.V. Club doesn’t tend to touch it. So, why this one? If shining a spotlight on misinformation is part of The A.V. Club’s mission, that’s cool. I can totally…

Mayyyybe...but what did we learn from this about evangelical propaganda surrounding abortion that we don’t already know? I mean, I guess if you never read a single thing about the abortion debate and the anti-choice movement’s point of view, sure, this could be enlightening. But, otherwise, it’s just beating the same…

I don’t know that I’d define this as “pop culture.” Just because something is a piece of content doesn’t make it pop in the cultural sense. This film is targeted at a very specific audience and will make no hay beyond it other than incredulous, liberal-leaning outlets (and I’m not saying that in a derogatory way - I’m…

Question: Why review this movie on The A.V. Club? 99% of your audience is not their target audience, and I’d argue a huge chunk of that is actively opposed to their target audience, so it’s not like you’re telling anyone reading this something they didn’t already know. And it’s not like anyone inclined to actually…

“The game offers your character a single file that constantly auto-saves.”