The screening I attended of the "Friday the 13th" remake was full of middle schoolers seeing their very first slasher film. Needless to say their reactions were more entertaining than the film.

The book gets a lot of shit, often deservedly, but if I remember correctly, the point is you need to do something compelling early in the movie that makes your lead character or characters interesting to watch. Something to make an audience want to follow the character. He mentions the "royale with cheese" scene from…

I'm very excited to hear the Aussie version of "The Leftovers" theme.

The post-Jim Henson Jim Henson Company is very good at proposing projects that never get made (Dark Crystal 2 anyone?).

I watched Vault Disney right around the time I really got into animation and film history so that block was just a treasure trove of great stuff. My favorite was "Walt Disney Presents," his old ABC show that would occasionally show animated segments from "Song of the South." Exciting times!

Someone needs to write a history of the Disney Channel because in its pre-Hannah Montana era it was such a confused channel.

Let Danny Elfman score superhero movies again.

I did a double-take when I someone on the AV Club write about God Help the Girl, and it WASN'T Jesse Hassenger.

Well jeez, now I HAVE to watch this.

How did I not know about this? Thank you!

Anyone with even a passing amusement of Steven Segal has to read "Seagalogy: A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Segal." It's written by the great Outlaw Vern and it's both hilarious and shockingly insightful. You'll come away from it with an actual appreciation for Segal's cinematic efforts. Well, some of…

He has? On twitter he espouses pretty much every boilerplate liberal opinion there is.

It's funny you mention that, there's a movie theater in "Bridge of Spies" playing "One, Two, Three."

When Sean Penn was about to announce the Best Picture winner last year, he opened the card and saw it was "Birdman." You can actually watch him debate internally, "Should I tell this joke? I'm going to get in trouble if I tell this joke. But it's a funny joke." It goes forever and then he finally says, "Who gave this…

I actually enjoyed "Pacific Rim" but I'm glad Guillermo del Toro is moving onto different, weirder films. The only del Toro sequel I want is "Hellboy 3."

I'm loving these Together Again columns. Keep them coming!

My thoughts on Ray and Marnie are eerily similar to Jesse Hassenger's. Get out of my head.

My favorite joke in "Zero Dark 30" is how many times the "Unlisted CIA Black Site" appears on screen.

Elaine May and Woody Allen are incredibly funny together in the underrated "Small Time Crooks." The show is going to be worth it for their chemistry alone.

In all my years of reading the AV Club I love that Mike D'Angelo's Scenic Routes is still running. It's consistently great writing, every time.