One of the weirdest and most persistent misconceptions about working as a critic is that it’s somehow especially satisfying or helpful or profitable (which, lol) to affect an opinion you don’t believe “for clicks” (no one pays by the click). All you can really do is try to communicate something about what you’ve…

I did two in May, so you’re behind on both your cheering and your booing, buddy. 

Does this mean that for a short while, Kevin Bacon was one degree of Kevin Bacon away from Kevin Bacon?

Maybe some of the old Commentariat will come back, too.

Wow, what a great article! I want you to know that I read the whole thing. Where can one see these movies now?

If they resurrect Sean O'Neal, I'm going to have a coronary. The good kind.

“Chinatown” is his obvious masterpiece screenplay, but people don’t give enough love to “The Last Detail.” I bet I’ve watched it twenty times over the years. The dialogue is hilarious and eventually heartbreaking, and Jack Nicholson was never, ever better. His performance ranks with his work in “Cuckoo’s Nest,” and…

That movie was insane, and one hell of a lot of fun.

Hell yes, it’s so awesome to see all these old names back contributing again.

I.V.!  I’ll post the same thing I did when Rabin popped up a few days ago...

About halfway through I scrolled back up to check the byline. “This reads a whole lot like HOLY SHIT! FUCK YEAH!”

when you see the Lionsgate logo you know you’re gonna get some solid, modestly budgeted but possibly silly-as-hell action. i highly recommend Sisu from last year for a fun example of that

It was William Goldman not Towne who advised Affleck and Damon on the Good Will Hunting Script.

I just thought to myself “this seems incredibly well written, who is this” and DEAR HEAVEN CAN IT BE! Please, please, stay with us Ignatiy! 

i’m throwing my bra at my laptop over here!

First a Rabin My World Of Flops article, then a Will Harris Random Roles piece, and now an Ignatiy review? Whatever year we’ve time traveled to, let’s stay there please.

Actual cinema discussion on the AV Club? Like, atypical, out-there, niche cinema?

But it doesn’t mean what you think. A life expectancy isn’t a measure of “how long will an elderly person likely person live to”, which is how many people incorrectly interpret it as. It’s a average of all people’s age at death in the sample. To the degree that life expectancies are going down, it’s not so much that…

Didnt he just do an interview this week about doing something with Netflix and Chinatown?

Worth noting is that his original script for Chinatown had a comparatively upbeat ending with the villains getting their just desserts. It was Polanski who insisted on making it an utterly cynical and downbeat ending, which Towne eventually made peace with, but I do wonder how that would have caught on. The Two Jakes…