Tom Hanks, That Thing You Do!

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Through his teen years and rise of his career Noah’s mother was being victimized by his stepfather with all the “well what were YOU doing” that takes place in those situations. Penultimate incident involved her getting shot in the head, luckily she survived it. The last part of the 10 minute segment was him explaining…

unfortunately this is something that has tainted the art world for years. there are foreign filmmakers like Lars Von Trier (an actual rapist) or Gaspar Noe who use cheap plotting to create misery solely for the sake of them getting off on making people suffer through it. Noe famously laughed loudly in the theater as…

He should’ve won for Django. Don’t get me wrong, I love Christoph Waltz, but he didn’t bring anything new or terribly compelling to his role, while Jackson’s portrayal of Stephen was incredible and nuanced and full of such complicated history in the portrayal of an enslaved person in the chattel system who functions…

So people don’t really mean it when they say “it’s an honor just to be nominated”?

Sorry, but no.

Jackson was freakin’ incredible in Pulp Fiction - no doubt - but Martin Landau topped him.

Just my $0.02.

Star Trek fans are like this, too, and it’s exasperating. 

Nothing about this is new. Literally everything in all of the Star Wars universe since Return of the Jedi has been about toy sales rather than coherent storytelling.

Simon & Simon 

This comment just made me think about Schitt’s and... honestly, pretty much all of the couples on it are just great? Even Alexis and Ted, who had maybe the most mature breakup I’ve ever seen on TV. 

Damn, not just too young to [get the reference] but too young to understand? That must be a hell of a thing.

Something you’re too young to understand.

Sam and Diane? They were on again off again, but ending firmly on “off again” in the Cheers finale, when it made the most sense for them to get together.

Alexis and Ted on “Schitt’s Creek.” 

Jeff and Annie in Community, Jeff and Britta in Community, Troy and Annie in Community, Troy and Britta in Community and Pierce and Shirley in Community

WTF is Moonlighting

The correct answer is Dave and Maddie from Moonlighting. Why does no one at AV Club actually know anything about television or movies?

Dave and Maddie from Moonlighting deserve a mention here.   

Can’t wait for the new Howard the Duck movies!