Hoping this is AV Club’s yearly equivalent of their savage C grade to The Worse Things Get The Harder I Fight...

As a student in journalism, Wolfe’s articles (not books) were required reading. However, I always gravitated more toward Hunter S. Thompson’s work (much like virtually all of the journalism students in class). But I think both had a distinct style that far too many journalists tried to emulate. For HST, kids fell in…

I remember watching this on the Friday I graduated from high school. I knew it was going to be dark, but I was still looking forward to seeing this movie, given how much I loved both Alien and Aliens. I thought two hours of Ripley kicking ass was the perfect way to user my way out of the high school I so hated.

And you would be right!

I trust apples(vc) opinion - far more reliable than Anthony Fantano or Pitchfork.

I saw this - I was so hoping for a Sinead O’Connor-style situation (not that she is without her own demons) - that Scott would be alive after the missing reports. What a horrible loss.

Curious as to what AVC thinks of the new Beach House album.

I think it was Honest Trailers, but I laughed when the announcer said Batman Forever was the worst movie “you’ve seen 30 times.” I haven’t seen it front to back since it came out, but I’ll occasionally “hate watch” it if it happens to be on TV - just like I would do Saved by the Bell episodes - as just something to…

Good point, but no. In Days of Thunder, her character, a very intelligent doctor, lusted after a race car driver. In this movie, she played a very intelligent doctor who lusted after a guy who dressed up as a bat and fought crime.

I pre-ordered Singularity, and it looks like it hasn’t even been sent out yet. Immunity was my AOTY when it came out. Looking forward to this one as much as I looked forward to Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer.

After watching this movie, I couldn’t help but think of Nicole Kidman, someone who has (for the most part) carefully chosen her roles to showcase strong, feminist characters - and what was going through her head as she was essentially reduced to being a groupie in this movie.

Wasting Tommy Lee Jones’ talent with Two-Face will go down as one of the biggest blown opportunities in casting history. As the writer noted, in movies like The Fugitive and Heaven & Earth, he could be both mercurial and totally in control - exactly what Two-Face was supposed to be. Instead, Schumacher made Jones into…

I slept on Depression Cherry. Then, I opted to buy it. And now, it’s like a damn collectors item. I only one or two at Amazon, and there are a few sites that are selling used copies for more than $30. I don’t know if it’s the packaging (which IS really cool) or what, but I’m holding on to my felty, fuzzy copy now.

In a few weeks, two artists who released my ‘Album of the Year’ - are/have releasing new stuff: Janelle Monae (with The Archandroid), and Jon Hopkins’ Immunity. Looking forward to Hopkins. Also, looking forward to hearing Parquet Courts’ new one, along Beach House and Courtney Barnett (who both released my number 2…

I was pretty much a ‘one and done’ with Thirteenth Step. But I know a lot of people absolutely love that album. I just found it lacking in hooks. It’s weird how it’s been so long since APC and a new Tool album, and each of them are being recorded in a relatively short span of one another.

The Ref, The Chase, and Airheads seemed to be on every other day on HBO during my sophomore college year.

That would make an awesome series.

Probably for the best.

True. I would also include Speechless in the mix of good to great sitcoms that relate to a lot of woes that most families struggle with.

I have a friend I met on Facebook - he has a great YouTube channel where he talks about civil rights issues. He essentially told the new Roseanne series to go fuck itself.