Pretending to be too enlightened for bullshit clickbait in the midst of vomiting out precisely said form of bullshit clickbait is, sadly, the entire operating procedure of this witless contemporary version of AVClub.

Sam Barsanti is the kind of person that you wish would join the mirror-world MAGA opinion/entertainment complex because it’s so deeply embarrassing that someone so click-addicted and obnoxious could be politically aligned with you.

CLICKBAIT SITE: ‘WE WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE WITH TINA FEY THAT CLICKBAIT CULTURE HAS RUINED CULTURAL DIALOGUE!’ NEXT UP: ‘LOOK AT WHAT PRIVILEGED WHITE LADY AMY SCHUMER SAID IN HIGH SCHOOL THAT WILL GET YOUR BLOOD BOILING!’

Megyn Kelly is a disgusting human being, but only slightly less disturbing are the White Knights on this thread attempting to pretend Moriarty hasn’t had a distressing amount of cosmetic surgery, given her youth and beauty. But of course this is late-stage AVClub, where the only content left is the lowest form of…

By all means, let’s celebrate the cessation of all judgement of people’s bodies/sexuality by documenting every syllable that comes out of this outrageously attractive young woman’s mouth. What a brave new world, thanks AVClub!

‘Once Great, Now Completely Corrupted Entertainment Site Staffed Exclusively By Soulless, Talentless Clickbaiters to Greta Gerwig: Go To Hell!’

Whelp, sounds like someone’s headed back to the Jonathan Minors

I worship Jack Kirby, but this is absolutely true. Stan hogged credit, he sometimes hurt feelings, and Marvel treated Kirby atrociously by not preserving/returning his artwork. But Lee wasn’t Bob Kane— a front man who contributed almost nothing to his most famous creation. Lee provided the VOICE and the TONE of…

What’s your Venmo?

If this movie manages to end in any way other than a transparently artificial chase scene, I will pay $200 American to the first person I see, whilst weeping tears of shocked, uncomprehendingly profound joy

Thank you for clearly articulating the point that I was indeed trying to make

I love the guy, but he drank turpentine and probably attacked Gauguin with the knife he later used to saw his entire ear off (not just his earlobe). Holding him up as some paragon of good behavior compared to Picasso is, to borrow  your own words, fucked up. but suuure, even though Van Gogh was likely suffering…

I wouldn’t say I’m a huge Gadsby fan or detractor, but it is mystifying why anyone would want to highlight her Picasso fixation, which (as a miserable MFA myself) I always though was easily the weakest aspect of Nanette.

The Watchmen show was absolutely excellent, but calling it ‘better than anything Alan Moore ever wrote’? Come on.

Fuck Zaslav, but if we’re trying to promote the idea of paying writers, Sam Barsanti is not the face I want for the cause

Spoiler-free review: man, I really wanted to love this. I love Gunn, love the characters, but it’s so sloppy in some respects and SO schmaltzy at the end that I couldn’t help but yearn for the structure and relative discipline of the first movie.

Ugh. Random Roles, once the greatest feature on the AVClub and featuring the wonderful Will Harris interviewing accomplished ‘that guy’ actors like Colme Feore, is now a video clipbait interrogating the career of... Lisa Rinna? I’m sure ‘modern’ AVClub would lambast this comment as somehow misogynist, in their rush…

Anna Torv is very good, but she looks so much like Carrie Coon that every time she pops up in something, I have to go check the cast list online so I can verify ‘Oh right it’s that actor from Mindhunter who looks uncannily like Carrie Coon’.

Saw Glass Onion at a preview screening last night— I don’t know if I prefer it to the first, but goddamn it is a good time. It’s far more gonzo than Knives Out, but tonally of a piece, which it needs to be given some of the goofy twists it foists on the audience.  All the stars are great and Johnson’s nested/fractal…

Their argument goes: there’s only a limited amount of money in Hollywood, and roughly the same amount of movies are being made and released as ever there was