1. To say this was my favorite weekly column on Gawker is an understatement. Despite the memetic abundance of B and C grades, your reviews were fun to read and sparked excellent movie discussions down in the comments. I also loved how much emphasis you put on smaller independent and foreign gems we would barely hear…

“Why those boys? Why not me?”

It’s known as “The Vatican Plan.”

Lol. Yeah sounds like a great idea. 1000+ people have been killed by police this year. Americans killed by ISIS in the US is 0.

it’ll go down as one of the weirdest careers for a Top 10 player. nobody seemed to enjoy playing with him—at best, they mostly just tolerated it. When Kobe was at his best as a basketball player, his closest comparison was probably Wilt; a high-volume scorer who, by all accounts, was a shit teammate. When Kobe had his…

The underlying cause of ALL problems at the U of I is that the Board of Trustees is no longer elected, but rather appointed. In a state that’s the poster child for bad government, there are zero checks and balances. I’m a 2nd-generation alum (class of 1987), and the string will end there- my math major daughter with a…

You obviously didn’t watch any Illinois football this season. We love turnovers.

Wow. Clearly you don’t know a single thing about Jimmy Butler. His story makes most scrappy underdogs look like pampered pooches.

Just a terrible job by the replay guys in that clip. We get multiple slow motion replays of the leg whip but nothing of the football tackle that led to it.

Fuck that pansy shit. If a raider kills your character in game, Bethesda should send someone out to disembowel you with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. Anything less kills the immersion.

That pre-draft scouting report slamming Newton’s “fake smile” is still one of the weirder things I’ve ever read.

The husband just released this statement. I’m just about in tears because he seems so genuinely NICE and in love with her:

Avoiding Iowa is good advice to anyone.

With only a Massachusetts inspection sticker of questionable vintage, so good luck re-registering it. Regardless, it will soon be involved in a hit-and-run in Woonsocket or Cranston where everyone involved in the accident will run away because of outstanding warrants.

I’m always amazed that more rich dudes like this don’t check out of their careers and then just fuck off to do whatever they want. To me that’s the whole point of being rich.

At least you can turn off the cover of cigarette “lighrer”

At least you can turn off the cover of cigarette “lighrer”

Smirnoff, Absolut? Belvedere, Chopin, Deep Eddy’s need to be on this list.

...tastes like cardboard soaked in brackish tidewater topped with the dairy equivalent of a lanced boil....

When I take my family to a public sacrifice to appease the cruel god of the void, I really hate it when an acolyte of Ner’huul makes an extra flourish with his bone knife or, and gosh this is THE WORST, when the High Priest makes a big show of eating the heart of the spring virgin. It’s like, act like you’ve BEEN…