I'm not a huge fan or anything but his movies almost always do bafflingly well, even after he's disappeared for years and years and then comes back with some seemingly wild crackpot idea. Nobody thought Titanic would do well, and then it came out and demolished everything. Same for Avatar. He's some kind of populist…

I may have been exaggerating just a wee bit for comedic effect. Sure, sure, real heroin addicts are way skinnier and look more fucked-up and unhealthy, I guess? But yeah, there's a reason I'm an editorial professional and not an EMT. The scene you're describing, if I were to observe it in person, or even on video,…

Outstanding username/comment synergy, especially given the other replies to my comment.

Yep. They were horrifying. Normally I like girls in tight clothes, but these ads never, NEVER failed to skeeze me the hell out. They were just so freaking creepy. If I was reading the front page of The Onion on the train, I'd fold it over to make sure nobody could see the back cover. I didn't want anybody to think I…

What, his name being Penner isn't close enough for you?

And isn't Title his wife, and their kids are actors in this?

Technically they're not cancelled yet, but they're dead shows walking with those ratings. You could tell that No Tomorrow was done as soon as they started burning off episodes over the holidays. That's effectively a death sentence. Frequency is also running new episodes while its lead-in, Arrow, is in reruns right…

Given the absurdly high number of trailer views for the upcoming xXx sequel, which is waaaaaay out of line with how that January dump of a movie will actually perform, I'd hazard a guess that trailer views are easy to fake and that studios might sometimes hire bots to run up the numbers. Not that the F&F franchise…

Who where has said what exactly? Not sure what you mean, but OTOH, a release date of Sept. 8 suggests real problems here. Late August through early September is one of those cinematic dead zones, like January, most of February, or the first week of December, when they only release garbage (or weird movies that they…

This is why, despite his monstrous policies, I would prefer Pence. At least he can act goddamn dignified. And based on his cabinet picks, I'm guessing Drumpf won't be any better than Pence would be.

I didn't know this either! Hooray! Great news.

At first I thought you said "chairs don't eat people" and I thought I was going to have to pull out this old chestnut:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

In our office's Secret Santa swap, I gave someone that monstrous 4.4-pound dark chocolate "commendation bar" from Trader Joe's. I thought it would be a funny (and delicious) gift, and I couldn't think of much else. Fortunately the recipient likes chocolate, but he was worried that he would eat the whole thing himself,…

No. Not in the U.S. anyway. It's a Hulu exclusive, unfortunately.

Shhhh! Trump'll hear you!

This is one reason why I love WFMU: Their college went bankrupt 20 years ago, but they saw it coming, so they bought their own license before it was too late and became an independent arts organization. No college sports, and no students reading the news or public service announcements.

Horrifying. Ugh. Humanity is the worst.

Actually I think that's a much better starting point than season 1, episode 1. I told my parents to watch Black Mirror, but I warned them to skip S1E1 ("National Anthem", or "that pig episode" as I call it) and they didn't, so I had a hard time convincing them to give the show another chance. And they're pretty…

Well, that's fucking terrifying. If Putin decides he wants China and the U.S. to obliterate each other, he stands a decent chance of maneuvering his useful idiot, Drumpf, into making it happen. Of course China only has 260 nukes (per ICAN) but that's more than enough to wipe out a significant portion of the population…

Does the A.V. Club have any copyeditors? The verb "lets" is molested by a stray apostrophe in the second-to-last paragraph. And there's this: "Or a Bob Fosse-esque strip club number that I’m still not entirely sure where I loved or abhorred." "Where"? Plus several others. Come on guys, get it together.