I knew when I clicked this he would somehow be involved and I was not disappointed. To me personally the antisemitism espoused by Farrakhan and the NOI has always been perplexing because...we’re going to willfully ignore the similarities to that and racism against black people? It’s a vibe and the culture has formed a…

Oh hey an actual apology. No doubling down, no ignoring your fans who feel hurt, no accepting lovebombings from bigoted abusers, no shouting “cancel culture” at every opportunity while calling your critics “wokescolds” and “Diet Nazis” for asking you to not be an exculusionist asshole while saying that your YouTube…

Really? A Peculiar Peril? I thought it was a pretty good adventure book with interesting parallel worlds ideas and ways to get the kids interested in people like Crowley.  Also provides a good springboard to reading stuff like Illuminatus! when they’re a few years older.

Huh, so I guess duck and cover really does protect you from explosions.  Who knew?

Seconded. Joelle’s reviews are outstanding. They’re as good as anything that the AV Club put out in its prime.

I know this season was written and shot months ago. But tonight, more than any other episode, had me gobsmacked at the mirroring of current events. A family dynasty of a soulless patriarch and the siblings who stop at nothing for their means to survive at whatever the cost is so incredibly  Trumpian, it’s remarkable.…

Then there is Ravenous, the black comedy cannibal western.

There are other reasons, but that’s the main one, yes.

So it’s the Australian version of Blood Meridian?

Hollywood reinvented the cowboys, the pirates, the ninjas, you name it. If it was and old archetype and had a weapon, you can create any hero or villain. The reality is that they were a lot more boring than what movies really need, and frankly, the old adage still works: Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good…

There's a certain timelessness to the modern Western in how it strips away the candy colored version of how this country sees itself though. Like, let's portray these people how they ACTUALLY were instead of how wanky Libertarians want them to be seen

Um you know there is no Nobel prize for literature currently.

HOLY FUCK AV CLUB TURN OFF THE AUTOPLAYING ADS! Earlier today I had TWO FUCKING AMERICAN EXPRESS ADS on a SLIGHT DELAY FROM EACH OTHER playing OVER TOP OF EACH OTHER.

Crawling into someone’s bed while they’re sleeping is not something you can explain your way out of with a candid interview. Fucking dead-eyed creep.

Noah Emmerich and Holly Taylor for The Americans. Alison Brie and Marc Maron in GLOW. Literally anything for Dear White People. The anti-CW bias continues to hurt Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Jane the Virgin. The pro-HBO bias continues to carry Westworld, Game of Thrones, and Silicon Valley. Black Mirror: USS Callister rece…

The problem is that rather than cast an Asian actress they just excused it by making the idea that she’s an Asian woman in the body of a white woman and turned it into a plot point, they literally whitewashed The Major for no narrative reason.

I really like San Junipero, but I can’t help but feel that given an eternity of computing cycles our heroes will eventually discover they’re not compatible with one another, and will end up slumming it (I can’t remember the word the episode uses for that). I don’t think that’s being contrarian, but forever is a really…

you think a 17yo is just a “kid,” but it’s odd to assert such a thing, when a year later we send those “kids” to fight war, to vote for their country’s leaders, to inhale carbon monoxide at will (in many if not most states), etc. i just think it’s (literally) infantilizing to presume someone on the cusp of the age of…

transcendence through agony
"And the film, curiously and objectionably, seems to affirm the cultists' notions of transcendence through agony, rather than flatly dismiss them as vile, morally bankrupt bourgeois sadists."