Thank you! The endless praise from the AV Club was the reason I gave it a shot a decade ago and I’m so glad I did.
The song choices they made throughout the series were really specific, and then in the finale they go with the biggest era-appropriate song imaginable, and it works. It works so well. I remember rolling my…

Number 1 should obviously be Homicide: Life on the Street, which is not on streaming anywhere precisely because of how boss the soundtrack was. Second place: 1980s drama Rags to Riches.

Scrolled through expecting to see ‘Master of None’ and nothing.  Any series which manages to fit Aphex Twin, Vengaboys, Poison and Dorothy Ashby into its sound world must be worth a mention.

Trying to piss off the Gen X’ers by not including The Americans?

With or Without You from the final episode of Americans doesn’t even make the top 20?

Les Revenants (the original, not the remake) soundtrack by Mogwai is pretty excellent. Allegedly they made the show to fit the music.

You might be thinking Miguel Ferrer (who played Bob Morton opposite Ronny’s Dick Jones in Robocop), who passed away about seven years ago.

Any excuse to revisit Bronson Pinchot’s Random Roles interview is a good one.

“...but we’ve yet to see its best.”

tbh i thought he had passed. glad he’s still around, maybe he can do a late career resurgence like Bruce Dern

Just watched the original: Some of the worst shooting in movie history belongs to the 1980's cocaine-henchmen.

Oh definitely. It’s dumb as hell but pretty dumb fun I’d say. Except for the end twist that (SPOILERS FOR A DECADE OLD MOVIE) Mark Ruffalo orchestrated the whole thing which undercuts the whole plot and means that the entire plot of him trying to catch them was pointless. It’s like if Ocean’s 11 ended with George…

By coincidence, we watched the first one on Friday. We enjoyed it pretty well, because we were high, but even with that it was just a colossally stupid movie. We believe it came into existence when a movie executive got blasted out of his mind on coke, watched The Prestige, fell asleep, and then woke up and thought…

I showed BHC to my kids a couple of years ago, which was also the first time I’d watched it in probably 20 years. It mostly held up, but I was struck by how low-key the movie is. There’s really not a lot of action scenes, and the climax is pretty mild, even by ‘80s standards. I loved it as a kid (we saw it in the…

Ah, you’re one of the AV Club readers who can’t grasp that Pixar is actually fine. Mainly because that’s what the AV Club tells you.

They’re being ridiculous. It’s terrible just because it’s terrible.

Nah, I won’t see it. My kids are too old. I just don’t understand why someone expects more out of this film.

It’s a shame because the first film was legitimately cute. But the minions going from sidekick to oversaturated Illumination mascots and these films having less and less reason to exist beyond that first one has been a bit of a bummer to watch.

Despicable Me 3 is one of the highest grossing animated films ever. Illumination understands that they don’t need to worry about quality or story or critics or RT Scores (58%!) to make money from dumb schlubs and their mouth-breathing spawn. No one asked for your jokes - these parents just need 100 minutes of A/C and…

Just pretend the book title is “THE LOTTERY AND OTHER STORIES” with the “AND OTHER STORIES” in really tiny type the the sweatshop Koreans couldn’t drawn into the animation.