That's Tushka Bergen on the movie poster. And I found Barcelona on IMDB with no problem, so I'm not sure why it's hiding from you.

A perfect example of this is Buffy seasons six and seven. Joss Whedon's main priority those years was preparing for and launching Firefly, so he left the day to day operations of Buffy in the hands of trusted and very, very capable lieutenants who'd been his right hands on the show for years, and those final seasons…

I believe Ultravox has had four different vocalists over the years - John Foxx and Midge Ure are the main two, but when Billy Currie trotted out a ringer-filled line-up in the 90s, he recruited some guy named Sam Blue on vox for one album and some other slab of beef whose name escapes me for another. They were not…

Somebody get her that cheesy bread she brought. Cheesy. Bread. She. Brought. Oh, just forget it.

There was also Astronauts and Heretics in the early 90s. It'another one that's mostly good, but not Wireless or Flat Earth good.

I picked up the first U.S. version (with "Europa" in the lead-off spot) in November of '82, and that will always be my preferred version - a perfect album. I was initially excited a few months later when "Science" first became a hit, but grew to resent the way it permanently warped public perception of Dolby and made…

Back in the 80s during the time that Storm was depowered but still leading the X-Men, there was a debate raging on the X-Men letters page over whether the spike heels she wore as part of her punk garb were practical for hand-to-hand combat (or foot-to-face combat, perhaps). I was amused that someone being born with…

To say nothing of the fact that David Wain is directing this, something that most of the commenters seem to have overlooked.

Good point. I forgot his father was a respected general inthe Soviet army, so yeah, he definitely would've grown up in the Party.

I saw this movie five times while it was in the theater, which remains a record for me. It wasn't something I intended to do, but different people kept asking if I wanted to go see it, and there was never a compelling reason not to.

I came here to mention that. It was on Fresh Air, and it just goes to show that sometimes Reagan's inability to distinguish movies from real life had positive benefits.

Was Arkady Renko a Communist? I know if he was one, he was an unenthusiastic and disillusioned one, but I can't remember if he started out as a party member in Gorky Park. If so, he's my fave. If not, it's Darkstar, who debuted in The Champions when I was in junior high and thus was at the proper age to develop an…

"Shiny Shiny" by Haysi Fantayzee is supposedly about nuclear destruction, but I've never deciphered how. I'm generally too distracted by Kate Garner's hips doing impossible things in the video to listen to the lyrics.

Has the AV Club ever officially apologized for The Hood Internet's brutal butchery of "Back on the Chain Gang" for AV Undercover a few yeas back? It remains one of the most godawful things I've ever heard.

His name is "Reacher," so it really makes more sense for him to be short, since he has to reac a lot. Unless the family name came from an abnormally tall ancestor who was indeed the guy who could reach things on the top shelf.

Fair enough. I like your take on it.

Who said anything about killing him? I just thought it was pretty unlikely that the Russians would stand around like dopes while a known spy hatched a scheme with a couple of suspected spies when they (the Russians) had the upper hand in the situation. What reason did they have to let Coulson go into that room alone,…

I think he had considered it, but rejected the idea due to her height. I believe he was planning instead to cast Cobie Smulders, who is one whole inch taller than Baccarin.

I've never been able to come up with a good actor for Doc. But John C. Reilly would be a great Monk Mayfair. And I could see Olivia Wilde as Pat Savage.

Yeah, that's true. That was the same issue with Morena Baccarin back when Whedon was trying to get a WW movie made.