Fair enough. Whenever I’m in that situation I think of Louis CK’s bit about how he used to be aghast by parents yelling at their kid in public, until he had kids of his own, and then all he could think was “what did that shitty kid do to that poor woman?”

As someone who doesn’t have kids (but plans on having them...at some point), I can’t help but be a little judgmental when I see parents shove a phone in a kid’s hand when he or she starts acting up. At my company’s last staff picnic, I was talking to a co worker when her four-year-old came up and started complaining…

Look, I’m no fan of the Trumps (even though Ivanka is undeniably smokin’), but the AV Club’s coverage of all these irrelevant personal issues is getting really annoying. It’s one thing to write about Trump’s ineptitude as president, but mocking Ivanka for her fourteen-year-old punk phase? Come on, guys, you’re better…

It is. Thank you for pointing it out so I didn’t have to. Such a strange mistake to make.

Claypool has gotten weird in the last decade. And not in a good way. Not that I necessarily disagree with his politics, I just don’t like having it shoved in my face at shows. I’m there for music, not Les Claypool’s rant on American foreign policy. Also, Primus circa Sailing the Seas of Cheese and Brown Album were…

This irks me. One of the last articles I read on the AV Club before the Dark Tower was released was Stephen King emailing the director (who, I’m sorry, is not worth mentioning) and signing off with “You have remembered the face of your father.” As in, you’ve done a faithful adaptation and you have my blessing...yet…

When I started hearing Vampire Weekend’s “Holiday” on, I think, Target ads, I decided I did not like them. It’s not a hoity-toity principle thing, but, Target? Why not a Subaru or iPhone commercial?

90's mainstream rap is the fucking worst. I disdained the gaudy displays of wealth (gold flecked Nike jump suits?!?). But then, around senior year of high school, someone showed me the Roots “Do You Want More?!” album, and it changed my life. While I still generally don’t like mainstream rap, I love the Roots, Tribe…

I have just one question for you: how can you have any pudding, if you don’t eat your meat?

I am a huge Pink Floyd fan, but for the longest time I could not get into The Wall. I dug the movie for it’s fantastic visuals, but I just didn’t understand why people liked the music - it’s so different from everything else they’d done. And I found the chorus of children in “Another Brick in the Wall” so cheesy.

You should try listening to “You Must Remember This.” I’m curious to see how you respond to the host’s voice.

A lot of them are hit or miss. There aren’t too many episodes, so I’d say get through all of them because there are a few gems.

I’m going to try and be vague, so as not to let slip any spoilers, but I’m surprised no one has brought up the similarities between Stephen King’s Dark Tower series and Twin Peaks.

I would think that to make a movie about Salinger, you’d have to love his work and respect him as an author. Yet, paradoxically, it demonstrates the opposite when you make a movie about a man who openly disdained film and TV, and who was doggedly guarded about his private life - to the point that he wrote nearly every…

I’m surprised to read that someone was as jarred by that scene as I was. Whenever I bring it up in conversation about the movie, nobody seems to remember that part - compared to the hook scene, or when the family’s trying to put the ax in grandpa’s hand. For me, every time I see that scene, and hear that thud of the…

Um...I haven’t been able to watch this video because the Acura ad is playing on a loop. Seriously, I don’t know what to do to stop it. So far I’ve abstained from getting on the fuck Kinja train, but I’m starting to think everyone is right.

Hmm...I personally feel twist endings are the lowest form of storytelling. At least if the story really hinges on that twist. I think the Sixth Sense still would have been a good movie without the reveal. The story, premise, acting, and especially the cinematography were all good enough to hold up the film without a…

My wife and I saw it over the weekend. We both thought it was pretty great. But we had differing takeaways from the film. My wife was giggling at all the #nofilter stuff (she’s into the whole culture of taking pics of food, et al.), whereas I’m sort of like Russel’s character in that I’m wary of social media and the…

Hell of an episode for fan service. When Dale proclaimed “I AM the FBI!”, I was cheering, and, I’ll be honest, with the classic Twin Peaks theme in the background, I got a little choked up. Lynch delivered that scene with absolute perfection.

I’m not sure if I necessarily agree with Cameron’s assertion that Wonder Woman is a step back for women in film. I would instead amend it to say that it’s just more of the same. I have been revisiting Cameron’s films, and it is apparent that he’s on the forefront of writing strong, independent female characters, who,…