Right? Like, I’m not expecting a blow-by-blow of the story, but how about: some indication of what happens in it, an opinion on the quality of the acting, whether the pacing of the film is effective, maybe some discussion of the cinematography and music, a little on the editing if it’s noteworthy. All I got from this…

At a certain point I imagine it becomes Applause Chicken: no one wants to be the first to stop clapping.

I considered making a similar joke on the article about Francis Ford Coppola getting handsy with extras, but thought better of it.

I’m with you. In my experience, live performers (especially circus folk) are the best. Messy freaks, every single one of them, but a lot of fun.

I know we all age differently, and telling someone’s age is not an exact science. But some of these girls were, according to the allegations, 15 at the time, and honestly I think most of us looking at a 15 year old girl know we’re not looking at an adult.

“Have you tried not being kissed by an 85 year old man, dear boy? It’s much easier.”

“I mean, what is a ‘movie’, when you get right down to it?”

The AV Club

People talk a lot about how ‘Rise of Skywalker’ abandons most of what occurred in the previous movie, but what fascinates me is how it continually abandons its own story beats. Finn has something important to confess to Rey! What is it? Never mind. Poe was a spice runner and Finn is angry about that, for about ten…

Considering how much shit I see Disney products get from all sorts of critics, it seems their payola system needs an overhaul.

Man, in-depth pieces on pop-culture rather than just recaps, intertextual analysis of different franchises, Jesse Hassenger getting into it with the commentariat - it’s like the old AV Club never left!

“I’m here to talk to you about the Bend and Snap Initiative.”

Ooh, nice ‘Avengers’-style-weapon-twirling-while-the-camera-spins you got there, trailer.

“...imagine that Star Wars introduced aliens that had green skin , but otherwise looked exactly like a racist 1950s portayal of mexicans , sombreros, ponchos , drunk in the streets , and “I keel you hombre” style dialouge”.

I wouldn’t condone actual discrimination against Devonians, but they should face some sort of punishment for their heretical scone/cream/jam layering.

“Jane Lynch, in a career-best performance”.

“There’s an immediate kinship of like, ‘OK, hey, I see you.’”

I think it’s on one of the Harry Potter Rifftrax commentaries that one of the guys says the Quidditch sequences are that franchise’s version of the pod race. I’ve always appreciated that.

I don’t know, I’d say this video proves you can have fun talking about episode II:

It still breaks my heart that Betty White died just eighteen days shy of 100.