The reality that a lot of reactionary far-right people ignore to advance their own agenda is that the majority of the population isn’t terminally online and doesn’t know or care what Rowling’s views about trans people even are. Especially since if you try to read an explainer of her history of anti-trans comments and…

How long does it typically take to beat Fallout 3?

I specifically said, “I agree that victims shouldn’t be empathetic to their abusers.” I also believe that is a much different dynamic than the one portrayed in the Netflix show that’s the topic of the piece we’re commenting on, where we (the audience) are on the outside looking in at a struggling comedian being…

I did not take you wrong. I did not suggest you should reason with him or wait months to do something out of “concern” for your abuser. Nor did I bring up fake progressives to suggest that you are one.

I’m jokingly suggesting that we should indulge the right-wing fantasy that Sydney Sweeney’s boobs are somehow incredulously killing wokeness, feigning defeat whenever they appear and acting like it’s resurrecting itself whenever she’s not in a movie or TV show for a while.

That’s exactly how I intended it. Thank you.

I think it’s complicated. I 100% agree that rehabilitation is not the responsibility of victims. But I don’t know how we can shift our current system of jail as punishment to jail as rehabilitation without feeling empathy for perpetrators, especially perpetrators who are victims themselves. Off the top of my head, I…

I don’t have millions of dollars, but if FCC wants to do a Kickstarter to get Megalopolis distributed, I’ll gladly throw a few coins his way. Admittedly, I’d be happy to watch either a good film or a glorious train wreck, so the risk to myself is minimal.

Is… is Matthew Goode being in the movie really a spoiler though?

As baffling as it is, I’m ok with it. We should all pretend wokeness is dead for a little bit, but somehow, it returns.

Fun fact: Nolan’s a huge fan of the Bachelor franchise.

FWIW I read the ending as a metaphor, and kinda’ worry that a second season would make it harder to do so unless it follows a completely different group of characters.

The problem is, there are no surprises after it. The new M. Night Shyamalan movie, Trap, for example, also shares its basic premise in the trailer, but with Shyamalan, there’s at least the expectation that we’re not seeing the whole twist. Say what you will about the beach that makes you Old, but Shyamalan made damn…

They’re attacking the person rather than giving the music a fair shake, and all because she released an album they didn’t like? Fucking clowns. #RespectTaylorSwift

Those lil’ rascals!

The first season was one of the best arguments for weekly drops as opposed to the “dropping it all at once” model IMO, because it not only let so many viewers get on board, I was genuinely anticipating the final episode, days out. And then for that last half of the episode to just... go there. *chef’s kiss*

You haven’t been reading the AV Club for very long, have you?

Full disclosure, all I know about this law is Matt Schimkowitz’s description of it here, which I concede is probably *eh-hem* not the most reliable way to learn about a topic for discussion, but a law that prevents movies from going to streamers for fifteen months after its theatrical release sounds more like the…

Who here’s complaining about that?

People are still watching movies, but they are going to the theatre less and less. Rising costs and an inability to trust other people to behave are factors in this (as is the ability at home to pause the movie so you can take a phone call or a piss or something).