I heard once that, while Kirstie Alley's presence on set was much appreciated by the rest of the cast (nobody got on well with poor Shelly Long), her character grated on fans, so the re-wrote it. Which is too bad, because re-watching the shows "Capable Rebecca" could have developed into an interesting character.…

Don't get me wrong: I love a good laugh at Cubs fans' expense as much as the next guy. But the old Stuff White People Like blog managed to cover this topic in a way that was somehow more biting, exhaustive, yet succinct at the same time back in 2008:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike…

Finally available… reminds me of an interview with Dave Foley I saw years ago on Conan O'Brian. He said the studio hadn't yet scheduled a release date for his film "The Wrong Guy" because they "cherished" it too much to let go of it.

"Unrelatable White Rivalry" indeed.

In Soviet Russia, call collects YOU! Sorry, I had to get one in this week.

Everybody's allowed to depict Nazis as unambiguously bad. That's sort of an unwritten rule.

A couple of points - Never saw "Amerika," but I do remember watching an SNL sketch that was likely a parody called "Amerida," in which America gets acquired by Canada, and everybody's pretty mellow about it, save for a dad played by Phil Hartman (who was born in Canada), who's sick of drinking Labatt Blue and yearns…

When I was about eight or nine I saw this movie on T.V., and I really enjoyed it. I thought the whole concept of it - Americans and Russians teaming up on a mission to an abandoned spaceship to solve the mystery of what went wrong there nine years before - was pretty fascinating. Around this time I also saw a NOVA…

I'm sure it's been mentioned elsewhere in the conversation thread, but I'm kind of surprised no to see it in the article: the Klingons were pretty obviously analogues for the Soviets, the Romulans for the People's Republic of China, and the Vulcans for Japan. And Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country, was very…

What you really seem to be getting at is the oft-repeated quandry about the Underwoods never loosing. The UK series never had that problem - Francis Urquhart was also, pure, unadulterated ruthlessness and mendacity, and he mostly succeeded right up until the very end - but all three seasons of that version equal…

"Frank and Claire don't have an interest in being anything other than what they are. Why should we ever care?" Why do people seem so fascinated by snakes and other reptiles at the zoo? There's something weirdly compelling about cold blooded creatures, especially when viewed from a safe distance.

That sounds like a much more compelling premise than the one of this film.

While there's definitely a strain of review intended for scholars or enthusiasts that focuses purely on criticism and comment, most sites like A.V. Club market reviews of films in current release as a guide for film goers to see if the film is one they might be interested in watching, and whether it's worth spending…

I guess it make sense that Batman's based there. Unlike Superman, Batman can't fly and, like Newark, Gotham's airport is probably a hell of a lot easier to get in and out of than Metropolis'.

I've had the same relationship with their reviews of Gotham, a show I gave up on after about two or three episodes. Actually, I think that show only exists on account of fans' visceral hatred. Had they been merely indifferent, it would've been cancelled long ago.

He doesn't make it like Superman makes it.

No, but I do still appreciate that Warner Brothers spent a quarter of a billion dollars so that I could get some cheap thrills reading everybody's snarky comments on A.V. Club. It's money well spent!

It also brought to mind this site's recent "Watch This" column on Kramer vs. Kramer. I now have a mental image of Batman trying and failing to make french toast for Jimmy Olsen.

It's easy to laugh at the concept of RCA Videodisc, but it's actually pretty amazing when you consider that it's sort of the ultimate extension of a technology that goes back to Edison's wax cylinders. Yes, videodisc was supplanted almost immediately by other, better technologies. But the fact that RCA engineers were…

Plus, like regular people they were a mixed bag - some were decent guys and some (like Becker's superiors) were incompetent jerks , as opposed to today where they are all morally pure crusaders for truth, justice, and the American way.