The best episodes are when Amy drives Devin crazy. She rules.

The great thing about anticipation is that you never ultimately feel let down.

Long live Long John Baldry.

No discussion of "The Specials" is complete without mention of the audio commentary Paget and James Gunn recorded for the DVD. It's brutally honest about how hard it was to film and Paget at one point accuses Gunn of being in a cult when he married Jenna Fischer.

It's too bad those Plinkett reviews have basically killed all discussion regarding the prequels. Any point that could be raised is met with "Um, have you heard of a little thing called RedLetterMedia?" And that's the end of it.

I may be misremembering, but I believe the Dundies idea was a really early idea Greg Daniels had for the show. It might have even been his original idea for the pilot, before he was talked out of it and urged to make a more faithful recreation of the first UK episode.

Wes Craven is my favorite horror filmmaker. His films, even the weaker ones, have a thoughtfulness absent from a lot of horror films. And unless he was going for weirdo comedy, the violence in his films was always shocking and ugly. He never thought of blood and gore as good clean fun and he did a fine job of showing…

Thanks for posting that, it's really good food for thought.

This show inspired a cartoon spinoff that was inexplicably produced by Savage Steve Holland (Better Off Dead, One Crazy Summer) and had episodes written by Kevin Murphy (no, not that one) and Dan Studney, creators of the Reefer Madness musical.

I would say the biggest problem with the four Futurama movies is that they don't really have 3 acts, they have 4. The movies were designed so that they could be chopped up and run as episodes when they aired on Comedy Central, thereby creating a 16 episode 5th season. This results in some weird pacing issues as the…

I caught a screening of this during the Seattle International Film Festival it was the perfect film for that audience as it completely brought the house down. It's the hardest I've laughed at a movie in quite a long time. Noah Baumbach is at his strongest when he's in full goofball mode.

Jesse's thoughts on David Gordon Green are almost identical to my own. Spooky.

One thing that's worth pointing out, is that George Meyer, long-time staple of "The Simpsons" writers room and hugely influential on the show's style, become a co-executive producer during this season and was for Mike Scully's tenure his right-hand man. While Scully will always ultimately get the blame, Meyer's sense…

I rewatched Season 9 a few years ago when it came out on DVD and I was shocked at how many episodes I really liked. "The Cartridge Family" is a stone-cold classic and there a bunch of less-talked-about episodes that I'm really fond of, like "Lost Our Lisa," "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" and "Dumbell Indemnity." The…

Always nice to see a new article by Tasha on the AV Club. It's been too long.

Thank you for letting Rabin review new release movies again. Even if it's Joe Dirt 2.

No! They actually didn't. Industrial Light and Magic used a super-advanced optical printer to merge the the many layers of live-action, animation and effects.

It's worth pointing out that Legacy Effects is the newest iteration of Stan Winston Studio, the company that did the animatronic effects in the first three "Jurassic Park" films.

Seeing Nathan's name on a new My World of Flops article warms my heart. Welcome back.

That period Dowd mentions at the beginning of his review is a pretty interesting part of Pixar history.