i don’t think that a three week, considered investigation with 8 expert citations is knee jerk but ymmv

also i interviewed the guy who wrote the wendy’s rpg and he’s super nice! he just wanted to do something fun on the company dime and it turned out really well for him. i think the issue with the wendy’s rpg was that they got CR to play it.

Hey folks. I just wanted to drop in and say thank you to everyone here for all the kind words, and also for reading what I’ve written at The A.V. Club these past nine years. I know I wasn’t always the most consistent presence in the comments, even before the Kinja transition, but I dipped in fairly regularly, and for…

Is Hook Steven Spielberg’s worst movie, or just his most excessive?

The world needs more Dana Gould (and Janet Varney & John McGinley) content!

Gotta agree with Barry, while Values is technically superiour, the first movie is just more satisfying to me. The first movie is all about this family coming together, while Values has this incredible sub-plot at Camp Chippewa, that’s completely brilliant and gives Christina Ricci so much amazing material to work…

Much later came a 2000 TV miniseries, which is notable mostly for featuring some of the ugliest costumes to ever grace the small screen.

This movies does not have Sting in a speedo getting a steam bath and is therefore the inferior film adaptation...

I prefer bands that actually live up to their funny names,

I don’t understand why someone would do this.

“Never gonna run around and besmirch you...!”

It’s kind of telling that I fell behind on the show immediately when these recaps stopped. Riverdale is only good as a community experience, without the comment section to laugh at it together, there’s a lot less incentive to wade through the horseshit.

Go all in for the magic and horror next season. It kind of worked for Sabrina, I guess? But more importantly, Nancy Drew returns on Friday. And magic and horror have absolutely worked for Nancy Drew, which is one of the best shows on television and is the platonic ideal of what Riverdale should aspire to. If you’re…

Is it weird that I liked the book but then seeing the movie made me reevaluate everything I thought I liked about the book?

We should ask LL Cool J what we should call it. 

I watched the trailer and my only thought was “This movie is for adults who don’t want to admit to themselves that they really want to watch The LEGO Movie and their various spinoffs without their kids.”

So would Matt Johnson’s new band be called “The” or “The The The?”

It’s not even deconstructing the genre, it’s just reiterating the genre’s tropes with cursing and gore. The core fantasy of a superhero movie is a morally righteous person using violence to solve an existential problem - it’s very much a product of the World War 2 / postwar era. “Logan” comes the closest to actually…

That’s sexual assault.

Googled to verify, you are not wrong. “10 years in the last 4" sounds about right.