You have the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria at your fingertips. Look it up.

Or Sarah Shahi as Wonder Woman. I wouldn't even consider her too old now, but Hollywood would.

If he were younger and therefore still alive, I would've loved to see Heath Ledger play the dual roles of Bob Geldof and Michael Hutchence in a biopic of Paula Yates. Geldof and Hutchence didn't look all that much alike, but Ledger managed to resemble both of them.

Damn well said.

Numan himself thought it was more of a swipe at Steve Strange, who Bowie still went ahead and employed in his "Ashes to Ashes" video. Of course, Numan recorded at least two diss tracks of Strange and the New Romantics, so he may have just ben projecting his own opinions onto Bowie.

Getting one's knickers in a twist over what is "punk" or "not punk" is the least punk thing imaginable. It was a thing that happened which is now part of the historical record. I suspect that most of the people who fancy themselves to still be fighting the good fight of 76 & 77 were born in 1990.

The Russians' decision to let a shady American who just admitted he belonged to a spy agency (though not the one he actually belonged to) interrogate the two captives alone was curious, as was the fact that they didn't break down the door as soon as the audio went dead.

"European Son" is unlistenable? News to me.

Yeah, I thought it was a goofy, pleasant enough time waster with some nice Isla Fisher cleavage sprinkled in along the way to liven things up. I'm flummoxed by anyone being passionate enough about it to despise it or be angry about its existence. That seems about like beating a co-worker senseless for filling the bowl…

It's Dave Franco, not James. And that douchebag is Mr. Alison Brie, which I would say puts him more in the "filthy stinking lucky bastard" category than mere douchebag.

New Wave was much more of a blanket term back at the time, covering Punk and any Punk-inspired music - it was coined to try to minimize the use of "Punk," because hyperbolic press reporting had made that particular word scary to the general public, and record labels have trouble moving product that people are…

I was going to dispute the whole notion of 1981 being "post-disco, pre-new wave," as I recall that year as being pretty heavily new wave. But I guess if you look at it from the top 40/mainstream perspective, that's probably accurate. There were some new wavers making big noise on the charts like the Go-Gos, Greg Kihn…

Superman Returns had a perfect Lois Lane. Unfortunately, she was playing Lex Luthor's moll. Why no one involved with the movie realized that Parker Posey was standing right there the entire time being funny, smart, gorgeous and tough while poor Kate Bosworth flopped around like an 8th grade cheerleader trying to play…

Like nearly every other AV Club rumination on music these days, this piece was filled with irrelevant digressions, half-formed thoughts springing from quarter-formed theses, and analyses that are masterful in their wrong-headedness. The Richman paragraph serves no purpose other than to raise a comparison between him…

And it features a prominent role for John McGiver, one of the all-time great "Hey! It's that guy!" actors.

Gina Arnold's Route 666 sits sadly on the shelf, wondering why it gets no credit for telling the same story nearly a decade earlier.

Steven Spielberg was appalled by Steve Bissette and Rick Veitch's graphic novel adaptation of 1941, but having read it is the only reason I can appreciate the movie at all. Bissette and Veitch manage to make the story simultaneously more bizarre and more coherent. The comic setpieces that fall flat in the movie land…

Has he ever done a Random Roles? If not, I demand justice be done and he turn up here soon.

There was also a Making of Space: 1999 book back in the 70s that was very highly regarded - I think it was generally considered to be a meticulously researched and very well written book that was way better than its enjoyable but pretty silly subject deserved.

I definitely teared up when Buster disintegrated that final time. Stupid old crash test dummy!