Yea, most of my favorites last year were out right around then. Place Beyond the Pines, Upstream Color, Spring Breakers, Only God Forgives I'm pretty sure all came out around then. I understand why some people weren't too crazy about some of those, but at least they were all unique and adventurous. Oscar bait like L…

Can you please just explain your profile? It's such a mystery. Obviously, people are very interested. You're unveiling would be one of the most popular threads in history.

So, he had to read @avclub-efe3192d78a1ce56ee8080149d5de969:disqus's comment, asking if we knew Jason Biggs was Jewish. Then he had to go find an appropriate response that referenced the religious convictions of Avenged Sevenfold's members?

I will be lucky to have more than one of those at my local theater. I'm hoping they move to on-demand quickly.

I still don't know what he/she/it is. He's been here at least a little over year; that's when I got into the comments. Probably one of the most interesting enigmas I've come across on the internet.

I lived in a college town that had outages all the time, mostly due to Comcast incompetence. The key is to call and bitch when your stuff doesn't work to its full advertised potential. After screaming for awhile, say you want money credited to your account or you'll switch to Dish and you can shake them down for…

As awful as there customer service could be (I spent a good 40hrs every for the first three months every year screaming about my internet going out and not for the credit), they never really hassled me when it came to cancelling my service, but they charged ridiculous disconnect fees for everything, even though they…

That they're willing to attack so much of pop-culture, but refuse to go after even mainstream rappers like Lil' Wayne* and Kanye West** shows how they are willing to sell their gender specific kind of liberalism in the rich, white neighborhoods. But they wouldn't know what to do if they had to mess with colliding…

I am no MRA nutjub, but I'm also generally skeptical when it comes to these claims being made against celebrities for a couple of reasons:
1. There is a financial incentive for the accuser because wealthy stars are likely to pay a lot of money to make this thing go away quietly, whether it is true or not. Bad press can…

Jezebel suffers from the echo chamber problem. For any story, one of their writers puts forth a spitball theory about how this promulgates the world-wide oppression of women. Then that theory gets rallied around. Then it becomes the undisputed feminist truth.

Yea, I think the backlash that spawned it is what makes it impossible nowadays. Everyone already has their mouths watering in anticipation to rip the upcoming Christmas release of "Reese Witherspoon saves poor African refugee boys" movie to pieces. I can't remember the actual title, but I imagine it's something like …

Even if Stone's role had been meatier in The Help (which it should not have been), there was no way The Academy would have nominated her, let alone give her the win. Giving the award to the actress playing a white heroine in a movie about the struggle of black maids in segregated Mississippi is just too cringeworthy…

My point is you can't expect artists to apologize when the make art that offends you. Somebody will always be offended by a message that reaches a mass audience. Do you seriously think popular artists owe an apology to people who are offended by the content of their art?

That is absurd. Lots of people do get offended by the violence and misogynistic treatment of women in video games. The industry refuses to apologize. Kanye West doesn't feel the need to apologize for:
"have you ever had sex with a pharaoh
I put the pussy in a sarcophagus
now she claiming I bruise her esophagus"

I guess this goes to my reply to you above, but there is an issue with dividing everyone into subsections based on gender, race, etc., then labeling some as part of a "privileged group" with traits and opinions they are bound to conform to and sticking others in different subsets of "oppressed groups", then…

The counterpoint to that is there are many women who don't find the song creepy. Even after the controversy over the lyrics, I still heard the song at bars and parties a lot. I'm pretty sure it was a hit, with men and women, at each of the three weddings I was at too. I even discussed it with a number of my female…

Who should they apologize to? Pharrell, T.I., and Robin Thicke don't owe anyone an apology anymore than the people who made Doom and Call of Duty owe an apology to the families of school shooting victims.

Yes, from my experience, you are correct. I've had perfectly normal relationships with women who were more direct and others who played "hard to get" because, as they told me later, they liked the idea of being pined after or being shown their worth. The point is women are individuals, just like men. To say that…

It's a stretch to say that a rape scene on Game of Thrones has much of relation to the sexual assault scandal on college campuses or the Elliot Roger shooting spree. Miley Cyrus twerking with black dancers at the VMA isn't really representative of entrenched racism in our society that likely led to Trayvon Martin's…

He seems like a relatively douchey guy. I don't mind people taking jabs at him and calling him douchey. I think it's incumbent on anyone in a society that prospers on the free exchange of ideas to have thick skin and realize, if they wish to live outside of a bubble, they're not entitled to live a life free of…