It mainly sounds like he’s upset we’ve cut off the Russians from SWIFT. 

I get that and have always understood it. But do the Google Analytics folks have data showing that readership is growing? Because since the whole AVC LA thing got started, this site seems to be relying more and more on old, recycled content, and there’s just less to read, without even considering the relative quality.

Honestly, this review is so weird I’m left wondering if this is real. Does this movie actually exist, or is it a time-shifted April Fools’ Day gag? Why on Earth does anyone make an animated movie that’s a period piece set in 2002? Why does Martin Tsai’s bio read that he was an AV Club New York Intern from 2006 to…

Apparently, now an A means that a movie has enough Asian and Canadian elements to be deemed acceptable. Or something.

I’m also on Team Inertia, but not very hopeful. It’s as if AVC’s current owners have stumbled on some kind of Producers-like scheme where the less people read the site, the more money they make.

Then again, I suspect that if they’d pushed for Waltz as best actor over Foxx, the cries of racism would’ve been deafening, maybe enough to bring on #oscarssowhite a year or two early. Never mind that Waltz was close on screen time and gave a much better performance than Foxx did. Still, Jackson gives the best…

Thurman’s Poison Ivy is a really bad idea, but she plays the role gamely and fairly consistently. She’s doing a Mae West impression, and knows that the movie she’s in is very silly. Arnold just shows us why none of the movies he’s been good in gave him monologues to deliver, or even more than a couple of short…

Bob the Goon is owed an apology.

Yeah, but it just feels like he’s at an age (early 60s) and a career stage (mostly a character actor at this point) where it would be really easy for people to stop hiring him, even if he didn’t have sexual assault with a minor hanging over his head. An offer to headline the Leverage reboot and direct an episode a…

I think it’s a bit less enjoying beating up bad guys (although there are lots of takes on the character that deal with that part of him) as that he’s compelled to do it to save people. But being compelled to save people’s lives, he’s also compelled to save villains’ lives, particularly from himself. I’m probably…

It’s crazy how much my childhood was shaped by four series, all from before I was born, being in near-perpetual syndication throughout my youth: I Love Lucy, Star Trek, The Honeymooners, and Twilight Zone.

Well, you’d have to be pretty busy in the bedroom for pregnancy to be an “everyday” situation in your marriage, although I do know people (typically from my parents’ generation or earlier) who seem to have tried for as long as they could.

What else does Hutton have going on, that he’d benefit from people forgetting the allegation (not that anyone forgets, anymore)? He’s using the only—ahem—leverage he’s got, in that it’s probably worth something (less than $3million, certainly, but something) to the producers not to have “rape of a 14 year old” be the…

Ra’s Al Ghul fell into the same bucket as the Mandarin, and they tweaked the character for similar reasons as when Marvel tweaked the Mandarin for Iron Man 3. I’d love to see a straight adaptation, complete with Lazarus Pits, but I think that’s going to have to wait until this Pattinson Batman has played out.

Hardy was also that level of magnetic as Bane. And Batman Begins works, even though there isn’t one big villain throughout the movie. As far as Kilmer goes, Jim Carrey’s Riddler probably goes a bit beyond “magnetic” to form a black hole in the middle of the movie...

“When that light hits the sky, it’s not just a call. It’s a warning.”

This is right, except I’d go one further, and say that it’s not the refusal to use lethal force that’s pathological, it’s his need to save people. They do a nice job of bringing out that distinction in the animated adaptation of Hush.

That’s a great way of putting it. Cinematically, Keaton is probably closest to the first read, where his Bruce Wayne isn’t so much different from Batman as he is still, even in adulthood, the quiet, traumatized child who lost his parents. And Bale was probably the best representation of the latter read. My favorite…

It’s kind of a weird complaint, since I think the Bale/Nolan Batman is the only cinematic Batman who made any effort to really separate their Bruce Wayne from the guy in the cowl, putting up the appearance that Bruce is an unserious person who wants to party and womanize. In every other version, Bruce Wayne is just a d…

The funny thing is, I’ve grown to like Returns over the years, for its sheer weirdness and audacity. But I still respect my younger self’s criticism of the movie: Burton adding a strong dash of Beetlejuice to a Batman story was awesome and tasty. Him slopping a bucket of Edward Scissorhands into the sequel was a lot…