Oscar-winner Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay, but his muscles melted so he hired Jason Statham to star.

Yeah, I'm extremely confused by that line in the review.  Is there anyone with a reasonably decent knowledge of film history who'd read that title and think of dancing?

@Scrawler2:disqus: Oh god, I'm glad y'all are talking about this.  I finally watched Midnight in Paris and found the fiancée so poorly conceived - such a wallow in misogyny, for that matter - that it soured the entire movie for me.  Actually I found most of the 21st century plot glib and insufferable.  I dunno, I…

Oddly I've had the opposite relationship with D'Angelo: I used to take up for him a lot (I like my beer cold and my critics cantankerous), but I've found his writing increasingly sour, stubborn, and hard to enjoy.

I haven't seen Movie 43 (thank god), but I'm picturing scenes from the once-ubiquitous trailer, turned into confusing, elliptical, long-take meditations on memory.  With fart jokes.

as though Apichatpong Weerasethakul had mounted a remake of Movie 43.

Since "Devil's Hands" is my favorite episode of the entire series, I'm inclined to agree.

For anyone looking for a contrast between It’s Always Sunny’s “terrible people doing the worst thing possible” comedy and a show (also starring Kaitlin Olson) which panders to the basest elements of that premise, watch Brickleberry. I can’t explain my argument any more clearly than that.

Yeah, I thought it was obvious that's why the stench issue was so foregrounded.

Yes.

I mean his assessment of the album itself.  Like in most of these reviews, I tend to skim/ignore the references to other musicians, which are almost always meh. It's the crutch of pop music criticism.

Disagree with the grade but not really with the review itself; it's a good but disappointing album.

What's the line from Piper's maybe-neighbor in SHU?  "They have the keys." Full stop.

No.

Since you said we could go back and talk about earlier episodes, can I make my pitch for "Blood Donut", which seems to be a consensus choice for one of the worst (or "least good" by OITNB standards) of season 1?  I've seen it twice now, and I think it's my favorite, in part because it plays its hands much more subtly…

@avclub-ce6b16ea4102dc4408c8dc202e7336c0:disqus : I'm not even talking about the falling-in-love aspect of the plot, just the basic issues involved.  The legal process they're hoping gets Pornstache put away is the same legal process that enshrines him as the father.  You have to rely on his deciding never to be…

Every time Cal says something to the effect of "can we not talk about my sister and her drama?", I want to buy him a beer.

Then again, I really don't understand the Pornstache pregnancy plot.  Who thought this was a good idea?  What happens when the baby is born, and Pornstache expects to have parental rights?  What happens when he finds out Bennett is taking care of the baby (even if he never finds out it's his)?  How in the world could…

Can we also get some appreciation going for Cal, who is the only non-prison character I enjoy spending time with?

Yeah, they're comprehensible enough.  But also, most Ukrainians can speak at least some Russian as a secondary language, especially if they're older, when it was mandatory.