Evil Dead 2 is such a weird tonal shift. Evil Dead was more or less straightforward horror (low budget camera innovations aside), so it’s like Raimi had a couple of years to think about it and went “You know what it was missing? Three Stooges-style physical silliness.” Not that I’m complaining, and dog knows Campbell…

Sorry, little bit off-topic, but have you seen Screwball? It’s Billy Corben’s documentary about A-Rod’s steroid scandal and he used children for the re-enactments, mouthing the subjects’ narration like an episode of Drunk History. It’s hilarious and makes liberal fun of both this photo and that weird-ass centaur…

There’s also that 50 page stretch where Blomkvist is just like “fraud fraud fraud fraudy fraud” to his childhood friend that conveniently shows up to serve as an exposition dump for the excruciating details of Wennerstrom’s crimes. I feel like that could have been trimmed a tiny bit and not lost anything.

Murray looks like a geriatric Dr. Evil. Blankenship looks like a giant halfway-formed fetus with a mustache, as evidenced by his insanely creepy campaign ad:

I’ll second Fury Road. I went through the same cycle of “meh” to “okay maybe” to “HOLY SHIT WHAT AM I EVEN SEEING” (in the good way), and it’s now one of my favorite movies. It’s a go to for whenever I need something playing while I do needlework and there’s nothing new to watch.

I listened to it as it aired. I don’t think Serial will ever re-capture the lightning in a bottle that was season 1, but that season was pretty good on its own merits.

Overall I liked Serial and in fact have been thinking I should listen to it again, but it sure had its “problematic moments”. It’s been a while, but I remember wanting to rage-scream at Sarah Koenig when she “come ooooon”-d Shamim Syed to her face about whether anti-Muslim bigotry played any part in Adnan’s…

I Googled his birth date because I’m (almost) 45 and didn’t think Colbert was that much older than me. I was going to make a “AV Club forgot Generation X exists, that’s okay we’re used to it” joke, but yeah, Colbert is right in the crack. I guess he could accurately claim either generation, depending on how he…

Ironic that one of the few racism-free Lovecraft stories has “Color” right in the title.

I assume there is at least one handler just off screen with his finger millimeters from the trigger of a loaded shotgun. All Treadwell had was a terrified 110-pound girlfriend armed with a camping kit frying pan. As I had occasion to comment recently, the funniest/most surreal scene in Grizzly Man is the one of…

Among other criticisms already made, punching down is just cheap and lazy. If you want to be cheap and lazy, go for it. Don’t whine about “censorship” or whatever when people decline to find you hilarious.

“I would have stopped at the mushroom belt.” “You got to coordinate!”

Aww, man! My brother still yells “Everybody wants a hoe cake!” whenever I make them for breakfast. (In my family they’re corn meal mush patties fried in bacon fat. I’m not sure what the proud owner of Winky Dinky Dog had in mind.)

I can’t stop laughing at “toe headed”. And nothing mass-produced by the same company that makes Monopoly is scary; I noped out of the Ouija board story after one paragraph.

I don’t know if Zuck’s lost weight recently or what, but he needs to get re-fitted for his human suit. It looks particularly ill-fitting in that photo.

Whenever I get that concern trolling pop-up “Why should you have to look at ads”? because I have ABP installed, I think “Because your stupid auto-playing videos are going to get me fired, assholes”.

My laziest costume ever was just before the 2008 election when I went as Ashley Todd, the tinfoil hat-wearing Ron Paul cheerleader turned McCain campaign volunteer who faked being “attacked” by dusky-skinned Obama thugs. All I had to do was draw a backwards B on my face with lip liner. Why that dumb fuck didn’t do an…

I’m sure there are other people who feel sympathy for the Nazi (not German, fixed that for you) officer. Like all the khaki-wearing dipshits marching around Charlottesville with tiki torches a couple years ago. Or most members of the current presidential administration.

Don’t forget Canuck the Crow, who stole a knife from a crime scene in Vancouver earlier this year: https://boingboing.net/2019/06/03/notorious-vancouver-crow-steal.html What was he gonna do with that knife? Don’t know and don’t want to!

I low-key think Oliver did the best Lindsey Graham impression ever. “I come to this Bojangles every week... my chicken is damp, my biscuit is cold... this is a complete shitshow!”