Farewell Dowd. You and basically everyone working at this site were so much better than J/O Media deserved.

Dowd, I’m glad the last movie you reviewed for this site was a halfway decent one. I’ll miss your good work around here.

Hey folks. I just wanted to drop in and say thank you to everyone here for all the kind words, and also for reading what I’ve written at The A.V. Club these past nine years. I know I wasn’t always the most consistent presence in the comments, even before the Kinja transition, but I dipped in fairly regularly, and for…

To be fair, there were so many people for whom Harry Potter was the only books they ever read and their sole cultural touchpoint (except for perhaps The Office and Friends) that who could expect them to understand any of the cryptobigotry?  

I think Nic Cage has earned the right to be called whatever he damn well pleases.

You should have replied with: “Good eye! I left those blips in the text on purpose to commemorate the strange writing experience.”

I saw it. I liked it. I think WB was stupid for hiring a toxic asshole to reshoot it and make it worse when a talented editor could’ve sanded this baby down to a 2.5 hour romp. I guess hindsight is 20/20 though.

Ah yes, another bizarre and embarrassing instance of one writer for a website not being in lockstep agreement with another writer for another website, who have the same parent company and absolutely no other editorial overlap. Weird!!

For a brief moment there it looked like AJ had the makings of a varsity athlete.

Maria: “Bernardo, mi hermano, I don’t get why you hate Tony so much! What’s your problem with him?”

It isn't even their beautiful wife!

Are the Gucci’s disappointed because this isn’t their beautiful house?

Also Aliens was better than the original, Ridley ruined his own franchise with Prometheus, and he’s been coasting since Gladiator in our opinion

“Brian May, what do you think of superhero movies?”

but May made sure to dig his hole a bit further

I like to imagine that Redmayne does every interview as a whisper yelling combo like his Jupiter ascending character.

“No sir, I am absolutely definitely not an organ thief. How many miles would you like the car to have?”

I took it as implied he didn’t actually take it, but that this would be revealed late in the movie.

My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?

What’s crazy about that book is how much Coran Horn is clearly a stand in for the author. It really is like fan fiction. He defeats Luke in a lightsaber duel at one point, and there’s some female space pirate who immediately falls for him.