My takeaways from this thread are:

Now, after a tumultuous hiatus that included the life-changing one-two punch of a cystic fibrosis diagnosis and the bitter end of a marriage (her husband left her high and dry following her grim prognosis)...

Ah, the classic inter-Marvel rivalry.

As someone who *does* like Kang (and I’d object to the character assassination you have committed repeatedly against him here—j/k), I will say that even though what we got in Loki wasn’t the Klassic Kang that I loved as a comic collector growing up, I think that Jonathan Majors absolutely stole the show at series end. …

Oh no, you're fine! No snark inferred. You're right that Siede does a great job with her reviews for that series. Lots of great details and thoughtful, engaging writing. 

Oh I definitely love When Romance Met Comedy; ditto Tom Breihan’s The Popcorn Champs. I guess neither came to mind when I wrote my original comment because both are running features rather than individual reviews, but you’re right that there are other contemporary AV Club writers like Siede and Breihan that pay…

Yeah, my read on the situation is that the director was first and foremost trying to praise the actress (the implication was that she should have more nominations), but shit on Cooper in the process. He’s a pretty vulnerable guy by all accounts—stories from before he got clean and sober notwithstanding—and his…

Ack! My fingers were typing faster than my brain was processing (or is it vice versa?). Thanks for the correction!

Nor should they. Both are right up there with the best of the best in my book.

I think that the implication throughout is that he’s encountered multiple people in the industry—directors, producers, other actors—who have made digs at him for being nominated when they think that he doesn’t deserve it, a pattern that became even worse as he kept being nominated and did not win (especially after his…

About those noms: Cooper is one of only ten actors who have received nominations in three consecutive years. The other nine: Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper, Richard Burton, Gregory Peck, Jack Nicholson, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, William Hurt, and Russell Crowe (those last four received nominations in four consecutive…

Ever since the Kinjaing, with the exception of Iggy and Dowd, the reviewers here haven’t exactly been known for paying attention to detail. Hawke could have turned to the camera and explained his character’s motivation directly to the audience and there’s still a good chance that the reviewer would have been too busy w…

I suggested to LaurenceQ The Avocado, which was started by former AV Club regular readers:  https://the-avocado.org/

A bunch of former AV Clubbers (readers, not writers, for the most part) party over at The Avocado: https://the-avocado.org/

I’m going to once again plug Punk Attitude. It was directed by Don Letts, who was a huge influence on early British punk, especially, and it’s completely told from the points-of-view of legendary proto-punk and punk musicians, themselves, e.g. the surviving members of the Clash, the New York Dolls, Chrissie Hynde…

I’ve had to explain to friends elsewhere around the globe what spelling bees even are. They don’t really exist outside of English-speaking countries, because other languages have orthographies that make sense, whereas the English language’s fucked up history led to a uniquely fucked up orthography.

For a broad overview of punk’s history, you could do a lot worse than Don Letts’ Punk Attitude. Horrible title, but it’s really well done, it features commentary from a veritable who’s who of surviving punk royalty, and it’s available in its entirety on YouTube:

My impression is that Rock doesn’t need any time to “heal”, no matter how many members of that family try to get him to co-star in their psychodrama. Like he said at his first show afterwards, he’ll talk about what happened after he “gets paid”.

I think GP added that first part for comedic effect (to highlight how dumb it is that Tarkin would assume Obi Wan is dead in ANH given what’s happening in the series now). Tarkin just says, “Surely he must be dead by now”:

“Welcome to episode 508 of Lucas Likes to Embellish. On today’s episode, George will explain how the design for the Millennium Falcon was inspired by a half-eaten hamburger he saw on a flight back from London.”