No, the AV Club has its priorities straight. The most important topics in entertainment are: (1) Shane Gillis, (2) Bowen Yang, (3) end of list.

Did Shane Gillis run over the AV Club’s dog or something? This is just pathetic.

There is some fascinating capitalization going on in that image.

OK, but aren’t movies with a great concept but an frustrating execution the exact movies we should we remaking?  

What does this mean?

“Tarzan:  Standing Erect”

“Medley” was the word I was looking for.

I’m not convinced that the “standards at Pixar have been, at best, steadily declining since the 2011 release of Cars 2.” Inside Out , Turning Red , and Coco  don’t seem to support that. And while Pixar gets a lot of heat for sequels, I think Finding Dory and Toy Story 4 are great. Aren’t these movies better than, say, …

I think South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut is parodying stage musicals, not Disney musicals. Isn’t “La Resistance,” and the French boy who sings it, a pretty clear play on Les Miserables?

Yeah, I don’t get what the “industry plant” criticism means. It seems to imagine that there’s some way in the treasured past that we used to fairly and objectively decide who gets to become a famous musician, but now that process that been sullied by capitalism.

I’m reading the words on the page, the same way the AV Club author did. I think the author’s reading is uncompelling, for the reasons I explained.

I mostly agree with these suggestions. But I can’t buy the criticism of the childbirth scenes. The same negative reaction seems to arise whenever graphic violence is visited on women in the Game of Thrones universe, whether it be sexual assaults or the stabbing of the pregnant Talia Stark. I share some of the shocked…

“She’s only with that guy because she knows, deep down, that she’s in love with me, and those feelings are so strong that they scare her, and drive her to act like she barely knows I exist.”

I think interviewers and new sources tend to focus on questions likely to generate controversy and attention. You don’t get links to your interview if you ask Yang if it was fun working with Emma Stone, and he confirms that yes, it was fun working with Emma Stone.

I certainly get the sense that Yang is liberal, but it doesn’t necessarily follow from that that he’s outraged by all the things that liberal online spaces are angry about. Comedians tend to be pretty forgiving about other comedians’ jokes, since a whole lot of the job involves saying things that you think will…

The Boys in the Boat also has Nazis to add stakes and to overcome the question of, “Why should I care about this sport I don’t care about.”

It’s not clear to me that Nyad did better financially than this movie. It received a nominal theatrical release before premiering on Netflix, and the only box office info I can find is that it made $16,000 in Portugal.

I feel like there are a lot of people who see Yang and project on him all their feelings and political beliefs.

47-year-old actors can worry about slipping too!

I agree he’s not great in The Mandalorian (assuming that’s one of the roles you’re talking about) but I think that speaks to recent seasons of that show being underbaked. He was playing Gus Fring as recently as 2022 in Better Call Saul, and continued to be excellent in that role. I have confidence.