Remember that part in the The Birdcage when Robin Williams's character has to pretend to be straight? I feel like it's a similar dynamic whenever ABC tries to market a comic book show.

Jon Stewart had a wonderful bit the other day that went something like this: if ISIS thinks they're hot shit right now, they should wait until they have to grapple with the crushing reality of mundane, tedious, everyday governance. Sure, beheading people on the internet is glamorous in its own twisted way, but…

I find responses like this to be rather immature. This isn't the result of hypersensitivity or censorship. There is no chilling effect taking place here. No one's artistic freedom is being impinged upon and no one is being shouted down. This is a creative decision by the producers of a family television series who…

"We were going to include women, but then we realized it would be work."

Miracle Mile could've easily digressed into Anthony Edwards futilely running around PLB for 90 minutes trying to figure out which freaking building Mare Winningham lives in.

Its dreamlike tone ironically lends it an immediacy that pretty much all other disaster movies lack. There's not an inch of emotional distance. It really crawls into your brain and stays there.

Worry not. I saw this movie for the first time a year or so ago on late night TV. Alas, it was broadcast TV, so there was a fair amount of burred nudity and blanked language, but it still enthralled me.

I've been living in Park La Brea for about a month now. This past Sunday night, I got my roommates together to watch Miracle Mile knowing that it takes place in our neighborhood.

Exactly. There was a conscious effort made to bring her appearance into line with the previous Disney princesses'. In other words, to imbue her with all sorts of lame, socially regressive qualities for the sake of marketability.

Those who say that issues like this are nitpicky and irrelevant simply lack full respect for what artists do. When an artist creates any work (in this case a drawing of a character), every detail is a creative choice. If the artist is any good, it's also a thoughtful choice. To stand up and say, "Ignore this detail!…

I'm surprised that there was no mention of international news channels in this article. I think that Al Jazeera and BBC World strike a healthy balance between providing a steady stream of information and doing it thoughtfully.

@avclub-28b1819668d7c62501acb9852cad10a9:disqus My goal wasn't to make your ideas sound difficult to execute so much as it was to make them sound overly technical and obtuse for something that is allegedly about an act of intimacy. If you require the other person to plainly state their discomfort before you can notice…

@avclub-28b1819668d7c62501acb9852cad10a9:disqus Do you hear yourself? You're basically saying that, by merely entering a relationship with you, the other person has loaned their body to you through some amorphous social contract and the only way that they can break this contract is by verbally triggering an escape…

He didn't say "no" so it's assisted suicide.

Yeesh.

You see, charliedont is a fierce defender of melodrama. He finds character development appalling.

Oh, look. Someone who who has absolutely no grasp of what it's like to have OCD. Or sympathy.